New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Following last month's release of "FAKE FAKE FAKE," a collaboration with emerging Italian emo punk rock band XO Sad, KAYZO returns today (October 31) with another rock collaboration: KAYZO "Wasted Space" featuring
Underoath on Ultra Music.
The next in line of many rock collaborations to emerge in the coming year, "Wasted Space" fuels KAYZO's continued passion to bridge the gap of rock and electronic music.
Says KAYZO about the song, "'Wasted Space' is everything you wouldn't expect from an electronic producer like myself and a legendary band such as Underoath. This is a head-on collision of sonic frequencies and sounds from different sides of the musical world. This is true experimentation in its rawest form."
He adds, "When I was told of the opportunity to work with Underoath, it brought me back to my hockey days prior to music. Their album They're Only Chasing Safety was on heavy rotation for me during my athletic career. It was a perfect opportunity to put to test the idea I have been pushing forward of the blurring of worlds and sonic sounds of my youth in rock, pop punk, and my love for electronic music."
Says
Underoath on the song, "Kayzo is super excited about music and this track and that's why we are so so excited about it. It's refreshing these days and in this time see someone as excited as he is about music."
To support the song, Underoath's
Aaron Gillespie and Spencer Chamberlain joined KAYZO at Escape Psycho Circus in Southern California this past Saturday, October 27.
Houston-born, Los Angeles-based producer/DJ KAYZO, née Hayden Capuozzo, is one of the fastest-rising electronic artists of this decade. His versatile sound-high-energy melodies bestrewn with pummeling beats-defies genres and challenges sonic boundaries: in one single song, he'll traverse heavy metal via shredding guitar solos, dubstep-heavy bass, hardstyle-fueled aggression, and hypnotizing psytrance loops. His flexibility as a producer has earned him official releases with all the top dogs in electronic music and has garnered him collaborations with and remix duties for electronic giants like DJ Snake, Steve Aoki, and SLANDER, among many others. Taking the electronic-rock hybrid to new ground, he remixed the 2000 alt-metal smash hit "
Last Resort" from nu metal icons Papa Roach. Dubbed a "real smasher" by Billboard, the remix has amassed more than 5 million Spotify streams. Elsewhere, the dubstep monster "Wake Up," his collaboration with RIOT, counts more than 13 million streams on Spotify, with an additional 3 million on SoundCloud. His bass-fluid, shapeshifting sound and bold take on production has come to define KAYZO's electrifying style and creatively experimental direction, as best captured on OVERLOAD, his debut artist album. Released January 2018 on his own Welcome Records imprint, distributed by Ultra Music, and counting more than 7 million streams on Spotify alone, OVERLOAD encapsulates the new KAYZO sound: a stimulating, cross-genre blend of rock theatrics and electronic futurism. His formal debut single with Ultra
Music -"Forever," a collaboration with Gammer - followed this past summer.
A tastemaker in his own right, KAYZO founded his own artist-run imprint, Doghouse Recordings, in 2016, which he later relaunched as Welcome Records in 2017. He also hosts his biweekly Doghouse Radioshow, which airs every other Friday at 4pm PT/7pm ET on SiriusXM Channel 730 as part of Insomniac Radio. Recognized as one of Billboard Dance's 100 Artists of 2018, KAYZO is today a bona fide global act.
