The Chainsmokers Hint That ANOTHER Bass Heavy Collaboration Will Drop Soon
The Chainsmokers are back to being the golden boys of EDM after a series of incredible festival sets this summer and new releases which demonstrate a side of the duo which has not been heard in some time. The Chainsmokers are once again producing purely in the electronic music paradigm and for now, have left pop productions on the back burner. Their latest release with NGHTMRE proves that Alex and Drew can still go as hard as anyone else in the EDM world.
A new collaboration which has been teased for a few months now has gotten more attention since the release of The Chainsmokers latest single. Of course, I am talking about the collab with trap and bass hero QUIX. A fan asked the guys when we the world should expect this heavily anticipated single. To their surprise, The Chainsmokers responded with just one word – SOON.
So there you have it folks, if you are happy with all the new music The Chainsmokers are releasing as of late, get ready because it seems that there is a lot more to come.
— THE CHAINSMOKERS (@TheChainsmokers) September 2, 2018
“Soon” Turned Out To Be A Long Wait, But It Was Worth It
Turns out “soon” was a bit of a stretch — the QUIX collaboration took its time coming together, but the two acts did eventually deliver new material together, unveiling fresh collaborative work around Ultra Music Festival 2019, alongside a wave of other new Chainsmokers bass-leaning collabs featuring names like Illenium and Crankdat. It fit the pattern this bass-heavy era of the duo’s career kept following: tease something for months, keep the bass crowd hooked, then drop a cluster of new music all at once when the timing finally lined up.
This whole stretch of Chainsmokers releases mattered for their reputation in a specific way. After blowing up with pop-leaning radio hits, a lot of longtime dance music fans wrote them off as having left the genre behind entirely. Collaborations with hard-hitting bass producers like QUIX were a direct answer to that criticism, a reminder that Alex Pall and Drew Taggart could still go toe-to-toe with the trap and bass scene whenever they felt like it.
