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For our latest installment of Essentials, we speak with Grammy-nominated artist ZHU, the producer and singer behind the dancefloor classics “Faded” and “Working For It.” The artist currently joins the progressive house supergroup Swedish House Mafia on their Paradise Again tour and is fresh off the release of a new Musical Chairs Mixtape Vol.
1 mixtape which looks to remind fans of a more physical era when kids would rip songs off the radio. Having built his signature sound and character out of anonymity in the earlier parts of his career, wishing to be judged by his music alone, ZHU now looks to be more open and involved with the community.
His last studio album, Dreamland, was released last summer featuring artists such as Tinashe, Yuna, Channel Tres, 24kGoldn and KOTA The Friend. The songs were played at his EDC Las Vegas 2022 performance in which he hosted a fashion show on a specially-constructed runway. The show previewed his upcoming NIGHT DAY label,
which was designed in collaboration with Irish fashion designer Emmy Slattery and references his breakout The Nightday EP. Whether it be his BLACKLIZT events in Joshua Tree, music videos, festival sets, or virtual performances, ZHU consistently delivers stunning audio-visual experiences drawing from a broad range of influences,
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Join us below as ZHU speaks on setting up musical chairs at his concerts, shares his thoughts on the evolution of dance music, and offers a first look at his upcoming NIGHT DAYThis is an early prototype of a fashion line I’m launching next year in 2023 that’s not merch but rather more elevated rave wear. more details for essentials hoodie
It’s a very different approach and it’s going to be part of the Fall/Winter 2023 collection of the brand that we’re launching next year called NIGHT DAY which is inspired by the first EP that I put out. For me, it’s my way of building towards a YEEZY but in electronic music. We currently put out merch, but it doesn’t quite get to that level. collection and MCMVI merchandise.
My first cassette was the SLIM SHADY LP, and I ripped it from a local FM Radio Station Wild 94.9 off of boombox since I wasn’t buying music cassettes when I was in middle school.
Everybody was just making mixtapes and things back then, and Musical Chairs Mixtape Vol 1. calls back to those times. We’ve been getting some fans to play musical chairs at the concerts. I used to always rip music on the cassette when I was a kid and we don’t really trade music that way and approach it like that anymore,
so it’s a bit nostalgic for me. That era happened to be the same time when musical chairs were a game that a lot of people
played as a child, including me.
Right now I’ve been taking a very mixtape approach with everything as I’m working on the next project. It was more of a spontaneous gift for the fans because I want to have it come out without any expectation, try some different sounds, and do tapes the way a lot of people used to do it.
I had a lot of music and I started playing snippets of it at this one photoshoot earlier in the year with some models. I just ran with [musical chairs] live and fans liked it so I’ve been doing a bit of that at some of the shows to kind of show love to the fans.
