After years exploring house and pop music, Skrillex has teamed up with ISOxo to produce the kind of speaker-destroying brostep that built his empire.
The king of brostep has returned, and he’s brought along a protégé to help burn down dancefloors everywhere.
Skrillex and ISOxo today dropped a new single, “Fuze,” a stunning release from one of electronic music’s most influential minds and one of its most promising producers. After years exploring pop and house music, it’s a long-awaited return to form for the dubstep icon.
Out now via Skrillex’s storied OWSLA label, the track begins with a dreamlike piano ballad, awash in a haze of atmospheric pads you’d expect from a Bon Iver interlude. However, it quickly reveals itself as a Trojan horse as the serenity shatters, the tension builds and we’re suddenly thrown headfirst into a drop so filthy it could strip paint off walls.
Skrillex revisits his brostep roots, going right for the jugular with a vintage, growling drop. ISOxo, a member of the EDM.com Class of 2022, injects his ferocious sound through snarling synths that contort with his signature aggression.
The duo recently performed together at ISOxo’s inaugural Niteharts Festival, which he launched October 11-12 in his hometown of San Diego alongside his longtime creative partner, Knock2. Their scintillating performance, which had been one of the year’s most hotly anticipated b2b sets, began with “Fuze.”
The track is also notable due to its release on OWSLA, the record label and creative collective Skrillex co-founded back in 2011. It quickly became one of the electronic scene’s most influential independent labels, known for developing contrarian producers and defining early-2010s bass culture. In recent years, however, it has significantly scaled back operations and ceased social media activity.
While Skrillex’s last three albums (FUS and 2023’s Quest for Fire and Don’t Get Too Close) released on OWSLA by virtue of his former record deal with Atlantic, the label has remained largely dormant, rarely releasing new music. Skrillex has hinted at a potential “new phase” for the imprint, but no formal announcement about its long-term future has been made. Whether or not today’s release of “Fuze” signals a revival remains to be seen.
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