Just because it’s Tuesday and some of us are still recovering from the weekend doesn’t mean that we don’t want to be shoving some fresh booty house jams into our skulls. Well, looks like we all just scored, because Brooklyn-based producer XXXChange just today released “Bounce,” a new EP on T&A Records. If the teaser is any evidence, XXXChange is still bringing the moombahton flavor with a healthy dose of B-more flavor.That B-more influence is fitting considering XXXChange — known to his parents as Alex Upton — studied jazz drumming at Baltimore’s Peabody Institute. Upton made a name for himself as part of grimy super-duo Spank Rock, and has produced for Kele, Win Win, Amanda Blank, and Kid Sister, as well as remixed tracks for gobs of huge names, from Björk to that guy from Radiohead.Basically, he’s a cold killer when it comes to making butt-shaking beats. As part of Motherboard’s Electric Independence series, he let us into his Fort Greene apartment to check out his arsenal of production equipment — including a rare EMS VCS3 monosynth vocoder — while letting us in on a few of his (and Dr. Dre’s) bass-making secrets. It’s a great glimpse into making of awesome party music, and shows that XXXChange’s production process is just as zany as the final product sounds.
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