Differentiating yourself within a genre can be difficult. Hell, differentiating yourself within an entire world of music can be difficult, let alone within the confines of a single genre. Still, Topi has become an individual within one of the most repetitive and derivative spaces in dance music and has done so in such an organic and powerful way that he's received nods from genre gods like Kill The Noise, Mat Zo, and Noisia along the way.

Living in a strange space between fluid and mechanism, movement and grinding friction, Topi's music fires like the engine of an El Camino SS. In the combustion chamber, basslines grind together creating the tiny explosions that move the pistons up and down, creating syncopated percussion lines. These drum pistons convert all of the lateral energy into rotational motion, allowing the entire record to propel forward with incredible power.

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NEST HQ MiniMix: Topi

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