Zeds Dead

One Liner:  Electronic Dance Music

Wikipedia Genre:  EDM, deep house, drum and bass, drumstep, electro house, garage, trap, glitch, hip hop, dubstep (garage? That seems incorrectly titled, but Wikipedia claims it is a UK thing)

Home: Toronto

Poster Position: Top Quarter - Line 3
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday.

Thoughts:  I'm sure I sound like a broken record to anyone who actually likes EDM, but I feel like I have already heard all of these songs.  I really want to know, if you put an EDM lover to the test, could they differentiate between these artists? Maybe the right question is "do they even want to?"  If all they really want to do is groove to a beat with a generic female singing generic lyrics, then I guess it doesn't really matter which one of them is making the beat and choosing the singer.  I also could have sworn that I had already written about these dudes, because I like their name and dig the Pulp Fiction reference.

Toronto-raised and based duo - Dylan "DC" Mamid and Zachary "Hooks" Rapp-Rovan - their first thing available on Spotify is a remix of something by Blue Foundation called "Eyes on Fire."  65 million streams and still a top streamer even after almost 20 years.

Like I said.  In that one, the female voice doesn't even get credited.  They got started when one asked the other to paint a graffiti mural at his house, and they discovered their love for hip hop and production.  Originally, they went by Mass Productions, so I think they scored with the significantly better name.

"sorry baby I had to crash that Honda" is going to be my band name instead.  According to Wikipedia, they open most of their shows with the clip from Pulp Fiction starting with "Butch, whose motorcycle is this?"  Originally, their main focus sounds like it was about live sets and not recordings, with a weekly party in a bar basement called Bassmentality.  They hosted now-famous folks like Skrillex (and other people I have not heard of) at the shows.  By 2010 they had started touring North America and then they became festival mainstays.

Lots of singles and EPs until their first album, 2014's Somewhere Else.  The top track from that one features something called Memorecks.  "Collapse" has 33.2 million streams.

Sure.  The top two comments are about either dropping acid for the first time or seeing it played for the first time at Red Rocks.  The its more singles and remixes until 2016's Northern Lights.  This one is more fun to me because they recruit some folks other than just generic lady singers - like the weird on here with Rivers Cuomo from Weezer and Pusha T.  Very strange, but kinda fun anyway?  The top one here features NGHTMRE and GG Magree.  "Frontlines" with 41.4 million streams.

Hey, a lady singing generic stuff over a beat that builds and drops?  No way!  So innovative!  I'm sorry, now I am just being rude.  I'm sure someone who hates rock could come up with similar issues with my favorite tunes.  And also, I will admit that I just sorta wiggled in the chair when that last drop happened.

A million more remixes and singles and collaborations next, before Catching Z's in 2021.  This one flopped entirely, no song really caught on for streaming.  Then another set of a million more remixes and singles and collaborations before 2025's Return to the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness.  "Sweet Memories" is the top track so far with 6.7 million streams.

Okay, I like the sample that throws back to both the original Ann Peebles track and the Missy Elliott rap.  That is pretty fun.  Dunno what I'd be doing during this hour, but I sort of doubt it will be this.