Channel Tres has been on the move for a few minutes now, dropping a series of EPs beginning in 2018 that recontextualize the dance floor against his Compton backdrop in a movement he dubs “Compton house”. There’s always been an effortless finesse in the way he builds bridges between confident rhymes on being self-made, Blackness, and all-night parties over multicolor techno beats and funky drips for daytime cruising and late night hedonism co-helmed by constant studio hand in Godmode Music creator Nick Sylvester, but on Real Cultural Shit, his first release since signing with RCA Records, the whole creative concept comes together crystal clear without flaw. Most impressive is how the slow build as an artist has only enhanced the freakishly white hot temperature in what Tres brings to floor – a rave, a mindset in swagger, and a fashion statement – collecting a series of singles he began releasing over the past year plus fresh cuts where even the challenges of a pandemic only made for another speedbump for him to jump over. And he only keeps jumping higher.

Highlights: “Sleep When Dead”, “Big Time”, “All My Friends”

Channel Tres’ Real Cultural Shit is available now on Godmode Music / RCA Records.

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