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Bassheads Take Note: Hybris is For Real

His new album "Emergence" is a must-listen for followers of drum & bass.

Turn the lights off and close the door. You don't want anybody to see the ridiculous faces you're about to make as you check out this absolutely incendiary album mix from Hybris. Evan Vischi is the US-born, Prague based producer behind all this madness, and his forthcoming debut album Emergence is a mature and progressive take on bass music.

"I moved to Prague about seven years ago, just after two of the biggest clubs in D.C. had closed down, and the drum and bass scene was hurting," he tells THUMP. "After I got over the initial honeymoon period of excessive partying, the culture shock and linguistic isolation that followed really helped me lock myself away in the studio and focus on production. As far as the city itself, Prague is incredibly beautiful and has a lot of history, but at the same time can be a very dark and moody place. The surroundings have definitely influenced the way I approach making beats."

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The record has techy club rollers galore, but it's his artsier forays into other perspectives that suggest this guy is one some real next level tip. There's a lil dubstep, two-step, some house elements, but it all sounds like it was garbled through radio waves from dystopian future 200 years from now. Vischi explains, "When I started this album, I just decided to work at random bpms, and do my thing at whatever tempo. The tempo inherently influences what you can and can't do, so I wasn't worried about what genre it would fit into, or what anyone else was doing around that bpm, I just made the tunes. It was really liberating, allowed me to try lots of new stuff, and I think at the same time it still retained "my" sound, because it's really me just making beats the way I make beats, at a different speed."

The album is released on Invisible, one of three imprints run by Noisia. "I'm super fucking stoked," says Vischi. "The Noisia guys are rad dudes, and have gone out of their way to support my music, which I couldn't appreciate more. They dig my tunes, and aren't afraid to put them out, even though they don't necessarily fit nicely in any currently money-making-mega-genre. Invisible is a label that takes risks, pushes forward thinking music, and I'm very lucky to have that kind of support."

Check out the video for "Garbage Truck":

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