Shawn Wasabi Reveals How ‘Nostalgia’ From 2000’s
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You’ve probably heard Shawn Wasabi’s remix of ‘Clear’ on repeat, which has become TikTok’s viral audio of May. It’s actually a track from 2016 — the multi-faceted music artist has a new song out, inspired by late 2000’s club music! Once again, Shawn Wasabi is finding himself at the center of viral attention thanks to the fact that his 2016 remix of the Pusher track “Clear” has found its way into the upper echelon of TikTok sounds, making it now one of the most “Shazamed” songs ever (No. 16, to be exact). But you may remember Shawn on YouTube six or so years ago — especially his hands. They dazzled tens of millions of YouTube viewers as they flew across a rainbow-lit controller equipped with 64 buttons that he co-invented, with each button producing a unique sample from the other, called the Midi 64 Fighter. It was like watching Mozart play a piano of the future, an analogy that can only be understood by watching his video for “Marble Soda” below, a mashup that used over 150 samples and put Shawn on the map (and has given him over 35 million YouTube views). That was in 2015. While Shawn has gone on to focus on more music endeavors — like releasing his debut album, MANGOTALE, amid the pandemic and regularly producing beats for other artists — the 25-year-old producer decided to revisit his passion for toying around with samples in his most recent single, “i dip,” that came out on March 25. [embedded content] Shawn said the creative process that went into making “i dip” was “a combination” of “nostalgia and having fun,” just like how he “used to produce back in the day where [he] was just taking samples and finding ways to manipulate them,” the Los Angeles-based music artist EXCLUSIVELY told.