WHAT IT IS: As the first artists signed to Anderson .Paak’s new label APESHIT, DOMi & JD BECK are gearing up to release their debut album in partnership with Blue Note. The duo—keyboardist DOMi Louna and drummer JD Beck—are creating a buzz ahead of any official release with a unique style that deftly fuses harmonic complexity and rhythmic shiftiness. Along the way, they’ve sat in with Herbie Hancock and backed Thundercat, Ariana Grande, Mac DeMarco and Eric André, and they share a co-writing credit on “Skate” from .Paak’s Grammy-winning album with Bruno Mars as Silk Sonic. A driving force in the future-sonic-jazz movement, the pair made their label debut with “SMiLE” on 4/29.
ALBUM: TBA
RELEASE DATE: TBA
SINGLE: “SMiLE”
LIVE: Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York and Napa
INTERNET: 122k+ YouTube subscribers, 7m views ahead of first single; 10m+ views of UGC performance-video uploads
PRESS: N.Y. Times (“Their music, freakishly complex and virtuosic as it may be, is not a ‘difficult’ listen. It’s sparkly, relentlessly melodic”), i-D/Vice, Vogue Germany, more
BOOKING: Caroline Yim/WME
PUBLISHING: DOMi & JD BECK Publishing
MANAGEMENT: Krystal Miles/.Paak House