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 brief video blogs related to a “captain’s log.”

The virtuosic producer, who moonlights as home music celebrity Claude Vonstroke, has now dropped the album’s lead single, “Big in the Game.” 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 launch of “Blue Mile,” a collaboration with Of The Trees.

“Big In The Game” is modern and energizing, functioning as a heavy-hitting melting level between UK grime and experimental bass music. Opening up about the genre-bending nature of his upcoming releases, Crenshaw not too long ago penned an op-ed for EDM.com.

“Moving forward, this new Barclay Crenshaw album will probably surprise you,” he wrote. “A lot of people are expecting a bunch of hard bass but that is just a part of the picture. There is bass music but there is also funk and dub and actual songs with singing. There is stuff like me trying to mix genres, like making a deep house minimal dubstep track. There is a track that sounds like Fela Kuti meets Sublime. It’s all kinds of new music.”

Crenshaw not too long ago introduced his “Open Channel” tour, which contains 13 dates and options upcoming performances at Electric Forest and Sol Fest, amongst different main festivals. Supporting artists embody Eprom, Tiedye Ky, LYNY and extra.

He additionally not too long ago visited Detroit to report a warehouse-style DJ set, which he is now launched as a efficiency video directed by Anthony Earnest Garth, who is understood for his work with The White Stripes, Eminem and lots 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 are available Crenshaw’s upcoming performances, the hourlong set is an modern audiovisual assertion. Watch the full set under.