The highs and lows of Different Sleep‘s Last Nerve EP are staggering. The San Diego native turned Chicago resident (now turned L.A. resident) isn’t a producer who adheres to one style or genre. On this release, his second with L.A. label Friends of Friends, there are no two tracks that sound the same.
The EP starts with “Night Depository”, a track which sounded to me like the eerie entrance to some type of mystical reggaeton action/adventure game. It’s structure is spacey and light, but the tracks drums add an extra bit of intensity that echos throughout the whole EP. “Lost Profit”, featuring vocalist Angelina Lucero, is a more typical sounding Different Sleep record, with obvious trance influences scattered in his production. “Movement” however, is my favorite track. As someone who has been following Different Sleep’s music closely over the last 4 years, it makes me giddy whenever he takes a crack at making a more intense sounding track. “Movement” is exactly that. If “Night Depository” is the intro track to Different Sleep’s hypothetical reggaeton video game, “Movement” is the games boss level track.
Different Sleep’s Last Nerve EP is a defining release for the young producer. We’ve seen him virtually dominate the Majestic Casual YouTube channel over the years, but this is his graduation from simple internet producer. The range exhibited by Different Sleep on this project shows his incredible music taste as well as his knowledge and skill to tie different genres into his musical creations.
You can purchase Different Sleep’s Last Nerve EP on iTunes here.
