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Currently on their Australian ‘Massive Universe Tour’, (stopping off at Chinese Laundry in Sydney this Saturday) trap and electro duo What So Not aka Emoh Instead and Flume gave us some insight into how they’ve come to produce the sound that uniquely defines them.

Their union or finding of each other in 2011 eventually lead to the release of their first EP dubbed ‘7 Dollar Bill‘ on Ajax’s Sweat It Out Records and has since seen the duo do a flurry of remixes for artists including The Only, A-Trak, Kimbra, Peking Duk, Major Lazer, Van She and Airwolf. It is fair to say with the reaction of their tour, they are drawing ever closer to creeping their ways onto the main stage at major festivals.

With commentary from Emoh Instead, here are five songs that influenced What So Not’s production sound!

1. Flosstradamus – Ov3r

The first I heard of the new wave of ‘Trap’. Big inspiration for everything WSN post-7 Dollar Bill EP

One of the original inspiration for Harley’s ‘Flume’ project. The aesthetics of this song plays a big role both our individual and combined productions.

3. Baauer – Harlem Shake

Yes, everyone knows it now :3 But this was a huge influences for us. Harley showed me it after hearing Rusty’s essential mix. We hit Baauer up on soundcloud pre its signing & he shot us a copy (we frothed) XD

This is the track that made me start DJing. A classic from the ‘ED Banger’ era. Buildup at 2:32 still blows my mind.
First heard it in the Justice ‘I Love Techno’ 2006 set

The track that put him on the map. Still my favorite ever Moombahton song

Check out the new stuff they are working with Flosstradamus on!