Black Cell is the 3rd short album from San Francisco bay area electronic music producer Idea Unsound. It was created in response to rise in police brutality in America over the last year, especially that effecting the African American community. The music of Black Cell incorporates a variety of styles from various musical forms, including jazz, dubstep, hip hop, and electronic avant-garde. The album is mostly wordless, however it does feature samples of political commentary and personal themes concerning African-American culture, police violence, paranoia, and institutional discrimination.

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Black Cell

Idea Unsound - Pixel Funk EP

1. Floating Lettuce
2. Pixel Funk

Pixel Funk

San Francisco based producer Kris Grant, aka Idea Unsound, was living in the metropolitan mega city of Shanghai while creating this EP. "Explore Shanghai" features 4 tracks that embody the hustle and bustle of the city and its multitude of inhabitants. Bouncy grooves seem to move like the ever-busy people that call Shanghai home, while demure piano lines and synth melodies refresh the listener like a glass of cool water on a hot, Chinese summer day. Utilizing field recordings from all over Shanghai, these songs embed the listener in the lavish motion of the city that never sleeps.

Out now via @popgang records

Explore Shanghai EP

Scriptech is the live coding performance of Idea Unsound from the Agape concert on June 18th, 2021. All of the sounds from the performance were scripted and layered in real-time; the set was improvised from start to finish for a truly aleatoric experience. Scriptech was performed using Max for Live and Ableton 11.

Scriptech (Live-code performance in Ableton)

Eliza Carrington - Someone, remixed by Idea Unosund

Eliza Carrington - Someone (Idea Unsound Remix)

Cheap Toy

Happy holidays.

Dub of the Sugarplum Fairy ft. Qjin

Dub Of The Sugarplum Fairy ft. QJin

Live @ Neon Grotto: SXSW 2022

This entire performance was created from scratch in real-time using Ableton Live and code. The improvisatory performance was a part of Monday night's 'Algorave', hosted by San Francisco-based collective AV Club SF ath The Neon Grotto in Austin, Texas.

Live @ Neon Grotto - SXSW 2022

December rain

Something to celebrate San Francisco with. Look out for Desert Heat this week

Floating Lettuce

Everybody's got to love somebody, right?

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Be with the one

Spring is here!

 Live mix from Creator night hosted at The gathering in San Jose 3/16/2024. All songs were beat-matched and key-matched by ear 

Tracks --

Rose Rouge (Joy Orbison Remix)
Stay Home
perpetual motion
Going back east
Water (Vidojean x Oliver Loenn 'Amapiano' Remix)
Kyana
Alligned Original Mix
Magis II Orkidz Remix
Voyage
Acamar (Original Mix) DANCEDJ.CLUB
Okay Original Mix
Chromosome Original Mix
Zulu Extended
People Ain't Dancing (feat. Kah-Lo)

Afrobeat pool-party [Spring 2024 mix]

Jasmine Kelly - Stupidlittlegirl (Idea Unsound remix)

Tove Lo - Talking Body Remix

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Tove Lo - Body Talk (Idea Unsound Remix)

San Francisco based producer Kris Grant, aka Idea Unsound, was living in the metropolitan mega city of Shanghai while creating this EP. "Explore Shanghai" featuers 4 tracks, embodying the hustle and bustle of the city and its multitude of inhabitants. Bouncy grooves seem to move like the ever-busy people that call Shanghai home, while demure piano lines and synth melodies refresh the listener like a glass of cool water on a hot, Chinese summer day. Utilizing field recordings from all over Shanghai, these songs embed the listener in the lavish motion of the city that never sleeps.

out now via @popgang records

with flight (original mix)

Comptrolla

FOLLY EP: mallabelmusic.bandcamp.com/album/folly

This week MalLabel Music is bringing you some of that drippin' bedroom vibe as Sacramento California's, Idea Unsound takes you on another swim through the sheets in his hot and steamy new pair of sultry goodies.

Idea Unsound takes experimentalism to a whole new level, mixing sex appeal and explorative ideas with elements of World Beat and Hip-Hop to create a primal eroticism underlying every harmonious arrangement. Putting his experiences in Electronic Music production to work for him he is constantly bringing innovative designs to life in his evolving tastes and soundscapes. Traveling the world with the US Air Force has blessed him with a flood of experiences in musical flavors from around the globe from which to pull his inspirations in creating something new and different.

His newest duo of night light vibes coming to you by the name of Folly is an EP with that old school R&B vibe cleverly mashed up with the 2-Step break grooves that kept the east side feelin' it for decades. With a little bit of that new Garage flavour these two keep it sexy with a little bit of bounce on top. 'Movin On' opens it up gently with some Future Bass tones and a sultry vocal guide 'til the vibes roll in while the Landr mix of 'Waiting' takes a new school Glitch approach to a familiar classic to sexy and rollin' results. These are seductive late night classics waiting to happen. Come and get it.

Artwork by Jeegan

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Folly

Waiting

San Francisco based producer Kris Grant, aka Idea Unsound, was living in the metropolitan mega city of Shanghai while creating this EP. "Explore Shanghai" featuers 4 tracks, embodying the hustle and bustle of the city and its multitude of inhabitants. Bouncy grooves seem to move like the ever-busy people that call Shanghai home, while demure piano lines and synth melodies refresh the listener like a glass of cool water on a hot, Chinese summer day. Utilizing field recordings from all over Shanghai, these songs embed the listener in the lavish motion of the city that never sleeps.

Out now via @popgang records

by car (Original Mix)

via metro (Original Mix)

over water (Original Mix)

So this is love..
What makes Love//
What makes it//
What makes it cool?

What Love

Live set for the 2018 August 3rd Mezzanine show with XXYYXX and Sweater Beats

Track List:

Money Cat - Zora Jones
pistol w- DILIP & yugi boi
Ouala - B-Ju x yunis 
Distant Bells (Juke Mix) - Ticklish x B -Ju 
XO Tour Life (B-Sides Remix) - Lil Uzi ert
The Zone - v1984 & Zora Jones
Speedlight - Canblaster, Sinjin Hawke, Zora Jones
Dark Matter - Jlin & Zora Jones
walk it, talk it - dvn mls 
Continue (Zora Jones Remix) - Canblaster
can I get a kiss? - Idea Unsound
Money Hoe (Xzavier Stone VIP) - La Zowi 
Be with the one - Idea Unsound
Trommer 2 (A-A-A Sketch)(1180 Remix) - Vera
Why Ya Gotta - Lunar Satin
Hiding (Galtier Remix) - SHYQA
This Ain't 2012 (Creepa Edit) - Sean Leon & Wondagurl
ALL THE THINGS U SAID - (AM97 RERUN)
How we do final - ?????
Dance With Me (TWRK Remix) - Le Youth & Dominique Young  Unique
Pop That (Original Mix) - Luzcid X Captsis
Flashing Lights (TWRK Remix) - Chase and Status feat. Sub Focus & Takura
Afterhours ft. Nina Sky (Sharps x Convex Remix) - Troyboi & Diplo
2 On (TOKiMONSTA Remix) - Tinashe feat. Schoolboy Q 
Happy Time (Radio Edit) - Donagrandi x Louis Bailar x I-Octane
Luv 2 Deep - FREE DRINKZ
Times Up - Complexive -
God - Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones 
Already Rich - Idea Unsound ft. The Kidd
Santa Muerte - Y-Riddim ft. Creepside (Zutzut Remix)
Revival - whysp x player dave 
Check Bounce. - Wade the Duke
All In (KXMRXN Remix) - Idea Unsound
Keep It Going - GRRL
Sinjin Hawke - Nailgun
Braindead - GUNKST
Aurora (Rusty Hook Flip) - Cashmere Cat 
Turtle Theme - Ramzoid 
Pyroclasm - Dirty K
Amca - Persian Empire Feat. Salty Sam 
Tablet - Hi Tom
Fantino (Natlek & Nobel Remix) - Capibara
4 My Soul - MUNGUUGNUM
BBHMM (Idea Unsound Remix) - Rihanna 
Sluush - PYRMDPLAZA
Whip N Flip - Color Plus & Kanyon
All Black - Richelle, Xzavier Stone, Sinjin Hawke
Raptor (Nadus Remix) - TOMMY KID
Final Skank [Sans Absence] - Sylvere 
Raw - DJ Sliink & Sinjin Hawke
Attention! 8 Way! (Original Mix) - Canblaster
Cloud Forest (Pixelord Remix) - Oknai 
Waiting - Idea Unsound

LIVE @ MEZZANINE // Future Dance Mix

Sickle

The latest single from Idea Unsound - If you've been feeling on edge lately then this song is for you.

Idea Unsound is a music producer, DJ, and music technologist based out of San Francisco, CA

Push Me

Sometimes you just want to be with the right one. 'Be With U' is a dark dance heater with futuristic vocal chops awash in glitchy, synth and deep bass.

Be with U

Don't Be A Simp

Your Aura Is Orbiting

Desert Queen

They're Out To Get You

Bad Apples ft. Moya Gotham

Music & art. 
Future Bass | Future Beats | The Future
https://www.linktr.ee/ideaunsound

Idea Unsound is a left-field 2step producer & DJ that mixes broken beats, futuristic vocal chops with a melodic, dubstep palette. His musical style is strongly influenced by his classical training, his love for science and technology, and his roots in dance music. His sound has been described by others as ‘jazz-inspired electronic music with a futuristic twist’.
He has played alongside Suzanne Ciani, Sweaterbeats, XXYYXX, and Pat Lok among others. Pre-COVID,  he performed regularly around the San Francisco Bay Area and has even toured internationally. He has multiple releases available on various labels and can be streamed via every digital platform. 
	His first foray into bass, the EP ‘Folly’, which was released on bass-heavyweight label Mallabel Music, exploded onto the scene in 2014 and established him as a master of experimental bass. His hit single “Waiting” gained a lot of traction on Soundcloud and helped create attention for his next series of catchy electronic hits. Shortly thereafter, he released “Explore Shanghai”, a concept album that expressed the hustle and bustle of Shanghai’s non-stop transportation services. 
Part of Idea Unsound’s success stems from his uncanny technical prowess and knowledge of modern production tools. He approaches musical concepts from the mindset of an artist and an engineer, being able to both conceptualize great sounds and then shape them sonically into the mix.

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