Study of Sound & Kraftykid’s “Mars Remix” is The Indie/Rap Crossover You Never Knew You Needed

How the collab came about

What started as a rapper-mixer relationship evolved into a true collaboration of sounds. Indie Rock and Rap. Kraftykid was tapped to do a remix for Study of Sound's Mars off his Musica Mundana album. The music on said album is ambient in nature so it was a challenge to turn it into indie rap, but how did he do?

How the song went

Kraftykid is known for touching many kinds of genres which can’t help the algorithm but at least the element of curiosity is still present in him. Also check out Study of Sound’s beautiful guitar solo and background vocals in the latter half of the song below. A standout from this song is the idea of a broken home. “A house divided will certainly destroy.”

Artwork

The cover art, by yours truly, features a lonely robot donning the Next Ting logo, gazing at the horizon on Mars. I wanted to express the longing for something more than what one already has, like kids often do.

Moral

“The mice were like pets, we ain’t had a dog. Every night, dancing through the walls like.” This sums up the experience of many kids who had their imagination and music as entertainment when money failed them.