Today's Track: Basedworld

In 2012 we saw the appropriation of 'Trap' music by the electronic music community. While on first listen, it was magical and ground-breaking as it always is when these things happen. But it also quickly spiralled out of control. The bastardization of 'trap' music occurred through multitudes of easily found (and easily made) bootlegs of inferior quality. Music blogs, similar to the decline of 'underground' dubstep formed two camps. Those championing the 'trap is dead' approach and those pushing it to it's limit (more gun shots, more machine guns, more, more, more). Terms like 'EDM Trap' even travelled across the atlantic from the US to make this whole craze seem all the more ridiculous.

So where do I stand on this debate? There's no denying this created movements and feelings in me last seen at the height of the dubstep era. There's also no denying that this is just the natural ebb and flow of forward-thinking, new and original music. So I leave it at that. Trap was a good thing for the clubs. There are some producers out there that make very commercial friendly trap consisting of a 'recipe' and others who remind us why we love it and how it should be done.

Ryan Hemsworth is one of those guys. With a repertoire of consistency and quality; he always seems to deliver the most on-point trap bootlegs, edits and remixes. His latest, 'Basedworld' is a testament to exactly what I mean. It is basically the trapped-out version of M83's already epic 'Moonchild' track. GAT DAMN.