Listen to the Fiery Lead Single From Barclay Crenshaw's Upcoming Album, "Open Channel"

Barclay Crenshaw is producing his upcoming album, Open Channel, in simply 80 days, monitoring every day with quick video blogs much like a “captain’s log.”

The virtuosic producer, who moonlights as home music celebrity Claude Vonstroke, has now dropped the album’s lead single, “Huge within the Recreation.” Fusing filthy bass and hip-hop sounds, the menacing observe options UK grime artists Snowy and Manga Saint Hilare as Crenshaw continues to embrace grime after the discharge of “Blue Mile,” a collaboration with Of The Timber.

“Huge In The Recreation” is revolutionary and energizing, functioning as a heavy-hitting melting level between UK grime and experimental bass music. Opening up in regards to the genre-bending nature of his upcoming releases, Crenshaw just lately penned an op-ed for EDM.com.

“Transferring ahead, this new Barclay Crenshaw album will in all probability shock you,” he wrote. “Lots of people expect a bunch of onerous bass however that’s simply part of the image. There’s bass music however there may be additionally funk and dub and precise songs with singing. There’s stuff like me attempting to combine genres, like making a deep home minimal dubstep observe. There’s a observe that feels like Fela Kuti meets Elegant. It is every kind of latest music.”

Crenshaw just lately introduced his “Open Channel” tour, which contains 13 dates and options upcoming performances at Electrical Forest and Sol Fest, amongst different main festivals. Supporting artists embrace Eprom, Tiedye Ky, LYNY and extra.

He additionally just lately visited Detroit to document a warehouse-style DJ set, which he is now launched as a efficiency video directed by Anthony Earnest Garth, who is thought for his work with The White Stripes, Eminem and plenty of extra. The efficiency brings Crenshaw again to his roots for an industrial, uncooked aesthetic with top-tier mixing and manufacturing.

Setting a daring tone for what’s to come back in Crenshaw’s upcoming performances, the hourlong set is an revolutionary audiovisual assertion. Watch the total set beneath.