The Irish producer is moving decisively away from the melodic techno of ‘World Of Era’ toward the “darker, rougher, less pretty” sound he originally launched his project to pursue.In his artist bio, Rebūke clarifies the significance of his stage name.
“It’s a play on words on my real name, which I really liked,” he explains. “But it also means ‘to intend to correct a fault,’ which appealed to me too because I was getting bored with all the same old tracks I was hearing all the time. I thought it was time to do something about that.”
Several years since he broke out with “Along Came Polly” on Hot Creations in 2018, Rebūke’s creative ethos largely remains the same. It’s still expansive and subversive, but these days, it’s grown increasingly introspective for the Irish producer who, after delivering his debut album last August, has taken what he calls a “hard look at my career, the support structure around me, and what I actually needed to push things to the next level.”
With World Of Era in the rearview and a renewed sense of clarity, Rebūke has been steadily shaping the sound of his next chapter through a string of high-profile remixes for Calvin Harris and Layton Giordani and Green Velvet, as well as a glitchy, chilled-out spin on Phil Kieran’s rework of Roel H’s “Dancing Bears,” out now via ERA. In a candid Q&A with Beatportal, Rebūke discusses choosing meaning over trends, taking his first LP too seriously, and the new direction he’ll unveil more fully during his EDC Las Vegas debut. Read it below, and catch him at quantumVALLEY on May 17.