House and techno favorites Max Styler and GENESI have teamed up to release their debut collaborative single, “See You Sweat.”
Released on Insomniac Records last week, the acid-tinged track unites the gritty musical styles of the respective California and Italian-born tech house heavyweights, building on a sonic precedent set in previous club-driven works like Styler’s “Hypnotic” and GENESI’s “Everything You Have Done” with MEDUZA.
Bringing a soulful vocal sample made famous on The KLF’s 1991 track, “What Time Is Love,” into the future, “See You Sweat” blends peak-time energy with a distinctively dark and brooding techno mystique. Complete with driving kick drums, staunch basslines, rapidly arpeggiated synths, and swaggering rap vocals, the track has earned live support from some of house and techno’s best, including Dom Dolla, John Summit, Solomun, Cassian, and more.
“My record ‘See You Sweat’ with GENESI started several months ago, when GENESI forwarded me a Dropbox link of several work-in-progress ideas,” Styler said in a press release. “I heard the ‘See You Sweat’ vocal and it took me back to when I first heard The KLF version years ago. I knew I had to jump on it and reimagine it with my own twist.”
“This track was born from the desire to merge two similar yet different sounds that are currently very popular in the club scene,” GENESI added. “I remember sending the first draft to Max, and when he sent it back with his modifications, I thought, ‘Wow! He really turned it into something more.’ The two worlds I mentioned blended perfectly into one, and it’s magic.”
“See You Sweat” follows Styler’s “Follow Me,” his first single on Solomun’s famous Diynamic Music, and the Experts Only-released “Lights Out,” both of which arrived in May. GENESI’s last release, his two-track Slow Down EP, landed on Miss Monique’s Siona Records last month, following a flurry of releases on MEDUZA’s AETERNA Records.
Listen to Max Styler and GENESI’s “See You Sweat” below.
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