Premiere: Cross Over Into The Shadow Realm With Slave and Pinwheel

Premiering this week on Wubaholics, we have a collaboration track from two of the most slept on producers in the game. SLAVE and Pinwheel have joined forces to bring us their new track “Shadow Realm” Available on all platforms Tuesday, January 26th from our good friends at Mean Mug Music. We got the chance to talk with Slave about his background and gained a little bit of insight into how this collab came together.

David Timko, a/k/a “SLAVE” is a 30 year old artist based out of Akron, Ohio. He has been producing for over a decade now, so it’s no surprise that his sound design has reached the level of quality it has. Once a long-time FL Studio user, Timko made the switch to Ableton live about a year ago, telling us that the change “literally changed my life.” In regards to how the artist name “SLAVE” came about, that story starts over a decade ago. In a time where David was in his early 20’s, obsessed with conspiracy theories, and just starting to take music seriously. “I first began waking up to the startling reality of how our society is in many ways built to control and repress the population, luring the masses into a life of wage slavery consumerism and exploiting the working class to feed the endless greed of the powerful few who control it all.” Says the Ohio native. Once he felt these things, he knew that he wanted to find a way to allow other people to feel the same way he was. And that way was music. 

So over the last decade, David has been trying to find out how to do that. But he has been enjoying the process along the way. “I find that it helps to think less and feel more when trying to determine which sounds fit into your track and which don't.” This is something that the 30 year old said took a while to figure out. Speaking of things taking a while, Timko says that “Shadow Realm” was first started over two years ago. And was originally supposed to be a rap beat. But “Once Tyler (Pinwheel) and I started working on it together it took on a completely different life and that's when things started to get weird. We went extremely left-field on this one... I would say the theme here is definitely on the more obscure, perhaps surrealist side and focused around experimentation.” Those are exactly the kind of characteristics that we look for in a track here at Wubaholics. The weirder the better, and I'm sure you all agree. Comment on the track and let us know what you think!