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Listen to Monolithium’s from one angle, and you’ll hear a decade and a half of hip hop records melted into a solid vinyl block. Make your way to the other side of the sound and it’s bass music slashed open to reveal the painstaking detail of a mid-90s record. Like a lot of kids DJing and producing, Chris Longshanks, known today as , follows a particular strain of rhythm, and he doesn’t discriminate. The golden age of hip hop, the nuance of good old IDM, 808 use of every generation, and the gratuitous low end of UK bass music all claim a slice of Monolithium’s style.

Raised in Winnipeg and currently working out of Victoria, Canada, Monolithium runs a night called , celebrating the finest club music across sub-genres and locales. (known more famously as Ramadanman), Brainfeeder’s , LuckyMe’s , and Toronto’s have all lent their talents to sub|division parties, and it remains one of Victoria’s dopest nightlife events (for squares).

FREE DL: Look At Me Now [Monolithium’s Look At Busta Re-Up] by Monolithiummm

Monolithium’s newest heat takes a stab at legitimizing the arguably crappier and most recent chapter in hip hop music with a remix of But how, you might ask, can one possibly redeem a Chris Brown song? By removing Chris Brown. In Monolithium’s cut, Busta Rhymes’ machine gun, say-nothing verse left fully in tact over top a double time 808 beat in the style of juke.

Coming up, Monolithium has a remix on the EP by , something of a Montreal supergroup consisting of , and . Mono also just finished a remix for German glitch/R&B singer (yeah, you have to hear this) . On top of it all, Monolithium’s upcoming EP will “bridge the gap between the post-hop crunk stuff I was pushing on the first release (Simon & G-Funk) & the 135-160 BPM bizness I’ve been DJing out a lot lately.”

Nouveau Palais “Drama [Monolithium Re-Up]” by Monolithiummm

“DJing out” doesn’t just mean Victoria these days. Though Monolithium will be appearing at the local festival, he’ll also be appearing at a little further out in BC and, in the fall, alongside Amon Tobin, Moby, Tokimonsta and a million others at in Seattle.