CRACKAJACK Expands the Possibilities of Bass Music with CLANKAS

CRACKAJACK, hailing from Pittsburgh, is proud to present CLANKAS, a bass-heavy single that fuses trench bass ferocity with studio quality and a touch of internet humor. The single demonstrates the independent artist's accountability of making music on his own, produced, recorded, and engineered right from his room at his parents' house. Instead of painting CRACKAJACK into a corner, this insight and approach create the opportunity for CLANKAS a certain level of rawness that reflects the mechanical, meme-based themes.

The track is influenced and draws on elements found in WHZLY, MAD DUBZ, Subtronics, and Samplifire, but CRACKAJACK takes it one step further, filtering that inspiration through his apprehension, resulting in a single with massive, chest-rattling bass while also aiming to make shielding/complex sounds seem "aggressive" yet playful. The viral memes that poke fun at robots in public spaces reference a culture wink apart from merely extensive bass drops, rolls, and role sounds, the art itself wrapped in heavy ideas and inspiration.

What stands out the most is CRACKAJACK's eagerness to break boundaries. He escaped the many producers who fall into a cookie-cutter style of production by going beyond the face value of sonic constraints to fully explore the spectrum of sound manipulation. While listening to CLANKAS, it emerged in my mind as more of a rough sketch for where he could and may take things in the future while incorporating elements of humor, rawness, and creativity. With CRACKAJACK being one of the three guys to headline his first show this fall, live from his parents' basement, he is also healthy and what you want in the underground, and he has done a great job portraying what is alive and unpolished, and exciting.