Hybrid Trap

AKA: Hybrid • Hybrid trap is a Trap [EDM] subgenre that combines deep 808 kicks, hard-hitting sub-bass, and rolling hi-hats with metallic Brostep-derived sound design, including wobbles, growls, and LFO synths, which later became more varied, experimental, quirky, and distorted in the late 2010s. Much of early hybrid trap featured a fixed 140 BPM and brostep-inspired drum programming, including "fatter" kick-snares and non-rolling hi-hats that distinguished it from concurrent trap styles. As time passed, producers introduced "crunchier", wonky sounding percussion. Throughout its development, hybrid trap became closely affiliated with other novel 2010s bass music genres, especially Riddim and Halftime, or the experimental Deconstructed Club and Bubblegum Bass. Certain producers incorporated syncopated, Breakbeat / Drum and Bass-derived drum programming at the backbone of hard-hitting trap beats. Going back to 2013, the genre was originally pioneered by artists affiliated with Black Tiger Sex Machine's Kannibalen Records with releases such as Kai Wachi's "Brain Splat" and Apashe's Black Mythology. The term "hybrid" began to circulate in SoundCloud as a description of the emerging style. Other producers from both the brostep and the trap scenes independently started combining major influences of both genres, most prominently LAXX, Getter, and Bro Safari. The style eclipsed both the simpler Festival Trap sound that preceded it, and to a certain extent brostep too, with popular artists Skrillex and DJ Snake creating singles like "Purple Lamborghini", "Burial", and "Propaganda". With the arrival of many novel producers from 2016 and onwards, most notably heRobust (his EP I'm Aloud was particularly influential), Quix, Tynan, Rickyxsan, and Hekler, hybrid trap grew immensely within the bass music sphere. The sound also attracted previous festival trap producers like Boombox Cartel and NGHTMRE. It often interacted with other trending Electronic Dance Music styles, such as Future Bass, or the similarly gritty and drop-focused Jungle Terror and Bass House. Because 2010s EDM was highly genre-fluid, producers often added drops from other genres, especially those in similar BPM ranges, as well as removed styles like Dancefloor Drum and Bass and Glitch Hop [EDM]. SoundCloud became the main hub for the genre's netlabels and promotion networks, including the aptly named Hybrid Trap. Slimepunk, a gritty, sound design-focused style led by producers such as Bleep Bloop, G Jones, NastyNasty, and EPROM, surfaced in the mid-to-late 2010s. Hybrid trap intersected with a later trend known as "freeform bass", produced by artists such as Mersiv and Sully and similarly focused on intense and chaotic sound design. Although hybrid trap is set to a halftime 140-160 BPM, certain producers blended it with faster Twerk rhythms, which is dubbed "hybrid twerk".