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Enter the Bizarre World of Future Trap With um..'s "thwap"

The Icon Collective graduates have been big upped by Team Supreme and Porter Robinson.

When you start making music under the name "

um..

," it's pretty much expected your music will be strange, open-ended, and perhaps even intentionally disorienting. Two graduates of the well-known California production school Icon Collective have done exactly that, and it's actually really working for them. Although they just released their first track nine months ago, um.. has already been featured in one of Team Supreme's lauded

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cypher sessions

, and their songs—which bear names likes "dont copy us" and "thats horrible"—are dropped by Porter Robinson on the reg. Their shows range from Burning Man fundraisers with Gladiator to the iconic Sway In The Morning on SHADE 45.

Now the duo is back with a single that sounds like the internet, a metal rod, and Wall-E on mushrooms had a baby. "thwap" will have you scratching, and maybe even banging your head on a hard surface to counter the feelings of excitement, psychosis, and perhaps even halitosis that will arise. Beware: listening to this track will probably make you regurgitate those golden cap mushrooms you ate earlier in the summer at Bonnaroo. Enjoy!


When you start making music under the name "

um..

," it's pretty much expected your music will be strange, open-ended, and perhaps even intentionally disorienting. Two graduates of the well-known California production school Icon Collective have done exactly that, and it's actually really working for them. Although they just released their first track nine months ago, um.. has already been featured in one of Team Supreme's lauded

cypher sessions

, and their songs—which bear names likes "dont copy us" and "thats horrible"—are dropped by Porter Robinson on the reg. Their shows range from Burning Man fundraisers with Gladiator to the iconic Sway In The Morning on SHADE 45.

Now the duo is back with a single that sounds like the internet, a metal rod, and Wall-E on mushrooms had a baby. "thwap" will have you scratching, and maybe even banging your head on a hard surface to counter the feelings of excitement, psychosis, and perhaps even halitosis that will arise. Beware: listening to this track will probably make you regurgitate those golden cap mushrooms you ate earlier in the summer at Bonnaroo. Enjoy!

um.. is on Facebook // SoundCloud // Twitter

David's stomach hurts. @DLGarber

um.. is on Facebook // SoundCloud // Twitter

David's stomach hurts. @DLGarber