What So Not is officially entering a new creative chapter with the announcement of his forthcoming project and accompanying tour, I SAW A TRAP DJ AND IT CHANGED MY BIO CHEMISTRY. The release marks both a personal reflection and a wider exploration of the trap and bass music movement that reshaped global dance culture throughout the 2010s.
Widely regarded as one of the architects behind the rise of cinematic trap and emotionally driven bass music, What So Not helped define an era that transformed festival programming, internet music culture, and electronic music’s crossover into the mainstream. Emerging during the explosive rise of early SoundCloud culture, his productions became synonymous with a new generation of electronic music that blurred the boundaries between hip-hop influence, cinematic sound design, and forward-thinking club music.
The forthcoming project revisits the emotional DNA of that formative era while filtering it through years of artistic evolution. Drawing inspiration from early online music communities, influential collaborations, and the global explosion of trap and bass music, the project combines the unpredictability and emotional intensity of early trap with elements of drum & bass, analog synthesis, cinematic songwriting, and globally influenced percussion.
Alongside the release rollout, What So Not will launch the I SAW A TRAP DJ AND IT CHANGED MY BIO CHEMISTRY U.S. Tour, a limited run of intimate club shows and festival appearances designed to reconnect audiences with the raw energy and closeness that defined the early trap and bass scene. Stops on the tour include Club Vinyl, 45 East, Substance, and Marquee New York, alongside festival appearances at Das Energi and Lost In Dreams.
Since breaking through in 2013 with the viral success of “High You Are (Branchez Remix),” What So Not has consistently built a catalog defined by emotionally charged production and cinematic scope. Releases like “Gemini” and his celebrated reimagining of RÜFÜS DU SOL’s “Innerbloom” helped solidify his reputation as one of electronic music’s most emotionally resonant producers — balancing nostalgia, experimentation, and forward momentum in equal measure.
“For a long time I found myself running away from a sound I helped create,” said What So Not. “In my journey to always do the ‘next’ thing, I think I neglected my thing. This project comes from finally reconnecting with that energy — not to recreate the past, but to understand why it resonated so deeply in the first place.”
“I feel like I’m finally writing the music everybody wants from me — but on my own terms, on my own time, with the tools of a lifetime chasing ‘what’s next’.”
More than a nostalgic return, the project feels positioned as a reexamination of trap music’s lasting emotional and cultural impact — not simply revisiting the genre’s golden era, but reframing it through the perspective of one of its most influential architects.
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