NASHVILLE ||
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG
MSO PR
 BLACKGUMMY
‘IMPACTOR’ EP
OUT NOW (9/30) ON mau5trap
LISTEN/PURCHASE HERE
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“BlackGummy might be one of the headiest technofiles on the dance scene today…On his latest EP Impactor, the Los Angeles-based producer takes on the KT Extinction. You remember it as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and ultimately three-quarters of the Earth’s living beings.”
– Kat Bein, Billboard 9/29/16
 Emerging producer BLACKGUMMY releases today (9/30) his IMPACTOR EP (mau5trap)–a body of work more sonically cohesive and representative of his sound when contrasted with the sounds of his first EP, Singularity. The first EP was created as a subtle homage to mau5trap and some of the styles of music that made the label famous (there was a progressive track, a bass house track, an Electro house track, and a minimal tech track)–all reflecting an artist who had strong technical skills, but not necessarily a cohesive sound.
With the growth of both BLACKGUMMY’s brand–a visual of the black gummy bear–and of his production work, the IMPACTOR EP reflects an artist who has begun to discover his sound, and can create a visual story through the ebb-and-flow of the four tracks produced for this EP.
For BLACKGUMMY’s second EP, the mau5trap DJ/producer based the body of work on KT extinction (the death of all dinosaurs) and named it after the asteroid that created all of the damage–IMPACTOR. The track titles came from four phases of an asteroid hitting a planet (“Incoming,” “Descent,” “KT,” “Adaptive Radiation”).
Purchase/listen to BLACKGUMMY’s newest EP IMPACTOR: http://smarturl.it/ImpactorEP
Track listing for IMPACTOR EP:
Catch BLACKGUMMY live:
About the BlackGummy:
BlackGummy began as the brainchild of Los Angeles-based electronic music producer Iman Marouf. Marouf discovered the entity called “BlackGummy” in 2013 during a trip to the Middle East and Asia, and instantly formed a unique and inseparable bond with the alien-like idol. Since their first meeting, the producer and the entity have virtually conjoined into an indivisible whole, never leaving one another’s side. Trained by Steve Duda, the legendary sound engineer and creator of the Serum VST, BlackGummy consistently showcases his unique prowess for employing a wide variety of entirely original sounds in his songs. BlackGummy has an obsessive fascination for sound design and music production. He views his productions as checkpoints in a tireless quest to improve his mastery of this skill, routinely spending 15 hours a day honing his craft. In 2015, mau5trap discovered BlackGummy, and immediately recognized his unique prowess for production and sound design. Later that year, the label released BlackGummy’s first original – “Lullaby” – on mau5trap’s We Are Friends Vol. 4 compilation, which Earmilk called a “can’t miss.” In February 2016, mau5trap released BlackGummy’s debut EP titled Singularity, inspired by the concept of “technological singularity” – the idea that artificial intelligence will one day surpass human intelligence. Aside from the philosophical influence that was the basis for the EP’s title, BlackGummy counts deadmau5, Eric Prydz, Feed Me, Gesaffelstein, Brodinski, Knife Party, and System of the Down among his chief musical influences.
Since the implicit convergence of the producer’s and idol’s identities into one amalgam, BlackGummy spends almost all of his time locked away, with the idol, in his in-home studio, crafting new productions that attempt to lend a voice to the silent idol. He only withdraws from his studio in rare instances: first, to perform alongside the idol in nightclubs and music venues, and second, to search the four-corners of the Earth for more clues as to the idol’s origins. His fascination with the latter arose from a Latin inscription that lay emblazoned beside the idol when he first discovered it.
The quote read, “In perpetuum, salutem in omnibus locis; In omni loco, in omni tempore.”
For more information on BLACKGUMMY, go to:
www.facebook.com/blackgummy # # #
For more information on BLACKGUMMY, contact:
MSO PR Alexandra Greenberg, agreenberg@msopr.com
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