Biography
WTCHCRFT has the best part of a decade’s production under his belt, shifting genres and styles making him hard to pin down & define – but with the constant thread of techno throughout. Not surprising, considering his background “my mom is from the Dominican Republic and my dad is Jamaican so I grew up listening to a lot of island music, bachata, reggae, reggaeton, merengue etc. But in my own musical excursion I found a lot of comfort in metal music, progressive rock, math rock, stuff I still listen to to this day”
Despite these influences, he doesn’t have any heroes “though I try to refrain from idolizing anyone because I feel like that’s how you set yourself up for disappointment. No one is perfect” but he still namechecks quite a diverse array of artists to take inspirations from “Snoop Dogg and his incredibly unique vocal delivery, Jerome hill, … mike Dunn, Cocteau Twins, Paranoid London, Gangsta Boo, Mobb Deep, DJ Assault, Björk, SPFDJ, DJ Stingray, DJ Bone, DJ Rush, Marc Arcardipane.