So many of our favourite artists have used SoundCloud as a platform to get their music noticed – every Sunday we’ll be spotlighting the beat makers, mixers and dizzying melody masterminds who are tearing it up on the streaming service.
Get ready to hear a lot more from this 20-year-old beatmaker from New Zealand.
After racking up thousands of plays on tracks like ‘baebae’ and ‘possible’, and amassing 32.8K followers on his SoundCloud, Montell2099 is slowly becoming an underground force to be reckoned with.
Since producing from age 12, after his grandfather installed a copy of FL Studio software on an early 2000s PC, Montell has curated a sound that mixes hard hitting beats that strike the perfect balance between experimentalism and danceability and ethereal, soaring soundscapes that heighten undeniable catchiness embedded within the music.
Check out his remix of Lorde’s anthem Green Light here:
Montell was taken on board by none other than 21 Savage to produce the beats behind his track ‘Hunnid On The Drop’ , recorded in a studio session together in LA – Savage even chucked a surprise appearance at one of his gigs (check out what the world is saying about 21 Savage’s ‘Issa’ here)
Montell2099 will be playing in Sydney this week, at SHIFT a new event that celebrates the creative diversity in music culture within the city. You can check out the event details here.
