That was when I started making the booty breaks/booty bass stuff. “Same Damn Sound” on Main Course, November 2013. What are some of your landmark releases that were turning points in your career? Wuki has seen his stock skyrocket in 2015, and to mark what’s arguably his best year yet, Wuki is ready to break down his diverse and wide-ranging tastes with his exclusive A Year in Music mix.

It’s been pretty cool to see stuff go from being so maximized of a track to bringing groove back to the music.” When you can pull off the genre-blurring better than most, people are guaranteed to be knocking on your door. “Explosive” is one word you’d rightfully use to describe his work, but it also applies to his ever-growing reach in dance music. In less than a handful of years, Wuki has managed to secure releases on high-profile labels such as Diplo’s Mad Decent and Skrillex’s OWSLA imprint Nest, among others. The first, and most important, being: “There are no rules.” If you’ve heard anything Barman has put out recently, you’ll agree he lives and dies by this one. Known as Wuki among music circles hip enough to handle his frenetic take on the rave-defining genre from the ‘90s, the Denver-via-Washington, D.C., producer has been spanking the booty-targeted demo with tracks that play by their own rules.

A breakbeat revival is snowballing out of control at the moment, and we have Kris Barman to thank for its glorious-albeit contemporized-comeback.

Best breakbeat djs 2015