A Genre-Bending Release from Schuz

BuzzSlayers
6 hours ago
4 min read

A swagger-infused, genre-bending banger from Schuz just dropped, and this is something that comes at you with loads of surprising approaches, and has just a natural way of blending hip-hop, rap, dubstep, electronic, and bringing out edgy overtones with vast undertones simultaneously.

Synergy is a maxi single with the first track, 'Brotha Ew" as its main point of focus, and I can see exactly why.

The way this track is produced and how it builds is really a key element to why it has so much impact.

The introduction to the song starts a little bit more subtly and gives you a taste of what's to come by bringing in some of those dubstep synthesizers and tripped-out vocals before everything starts kicking in.

The song picks up a little bit of pace, and the beat starts coming in with a really heavy hand. I feel like the beat of this track is a major attribute as to why it has the heaviness that it does.

The track is done with Jonny Narco as a collaboration, and this is a dream team for sure.

Both of them completely understood the mission, and we're really able to pull all their stops in terms of taking something that's hard and keeps you on your toes.

As I mentioned earlier, the song has a great way of building, and there are some great changes that actually come in later on as well. It is very electronically infused; it does have a widespread and deepening kind of groove and beat to it, and the wrapping actually adds such an excellent texture and tone to the song, giving it an additional flow that feels completely natural.

This track has loads of attitude and a borderline brilliant approach when it comes to thinking outside the box.

I don't just mean that in terms of taking rap and electronic/dubstep, and EDM, putting them together and creating something with its own atmosphere, I also mean the weight produced as a whole.

There are also all kinds of sleek production trickery that happens throughout the track that gives it a little bit of an experimental approach as well, and it hits you with sounds that are avant-garde and kind of refreshing.

You can tell this was very well thought out. There's a lot of attention to detail in terms of sound-sculpting, and I feel like this is one of the main attributes that makes Schuz so appealing.

The way the songs are produced is almost invasive, but still happens to have this smoothness to them in their underbelly; the combination of those two things is genius.

You hear the two of them going back and forth at the beginning and at the very end of the track as well, and even by hearing those elements, you can tell how fun this must have been.

The wrapping does indeed have loads of that smooth swagger to it; you can tell he was deep in the pockets of those beats, and it felt good to lay out these lyrics.

The lyrical phrasing is also something that hit me pretty hard because it felt simply natural for the artist to be able to do it, and the way it meshes with the soundscape of the music is incredible.

I like songs that sort of break boundaries. This is a song that isn't exactly reinventing the wheel, but it is taking things in different directions to create something fresh.

Blending the tones and textures between the vocals and the synthesizers, beats, and keys probably wasn't very easy to do, but the whole thing came together like puzzle pieces.

It's got impact, and it was definitely pretty addictive.

So, that first track, "Brotha Ew", was massive.

The following song, "I Believe", serves as more of an instrumental, although there is a sample that keeps quoting the title of the track. So, this one has a different growth pattern to it and feels a bit more cinematic and a little haunting.

You could definitely tell this was inspired by things like film, or at least it was to me.

You can hear some great strings, fresh kinds of synthesizers and keys, and this super deep and heavy break and dub approach that sort of rips and comes in closed-fisted with textures that are sort of brutal, in a way.

I love the combination of how heavy this felt, but also how sort of eerie it came through as well. That combination of bringing together the cinematic factor along with the sort of grindcore electronic feel was just overwhelming.

Again, some outstanding changes are going on throughout this one, too, and I feel like this was a sweet spot for Schuz.

I get the sense that this is an artist and producer who is in his zone in the studio. Experimenting, sculpting sounds and textures, reinventing genres, and creating songs with fewer boundaries than you may be used to.

It's an awesome blend of something semi-familiar but almost outlandishly experimental at the same time.

This release is for real electronic lovers, but also for people who love experimental music in general. It's a set of songs that expand horizons to an extent and don't really follow a particular approach or genre.

Again, this is music that thinks outside the box, and I would definitely listen to both of these tracks loud.

They both hit pretty hard, and listening to them loud lets you soak in all of these layers that are going on as well.

So, take a deep dive into this release and remember where you heard it first.