Profile on Los Angeles-based producer Yultron about his rise and new EP with Jay Park.
Late summer has been scorching in Southern California, and Sunday, Aug. 4, was particularly taxing. Temperature readings for the city of Fontana reached 101 degrees at 6 p.m. Over 170,000 people felt the blunt end of that heat walking across the asphalt of the city’s Auto Club Speedway—the only active NASCAR racetrack in SoCal—to enjoy the pulsating music at the 12th HARD Summer festival.
When I meet him at a booth near the back of a bar in North Hollywood the next day, Monday, he’s grateful for the opportunity to play back-to-back festivals, a bit tired, and maybe a little relieved he survived the weekend. He jokes that he should have weighed himself before and after the set to see how many pounds he sweated off onstage. “I could only see parts of the crowd at times because of the sun,” he admits, “but it was worth it.
Once the band fizzled out, he branched out on his own as a producer and started rapping over his own beats, even gettingrapper still had "400" attached to his name. Yultron no longer raps, and he credits DJ friends at the time with pulling him to electronic music. Once he felt comfortable manipulating sounds in this medium, Soundcloud loosies such as “Headbang and Chill” and projects like 2016’sestablished his bass-heavy and hardstyle sound.
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