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Hudson Mohawke

Scottish producer Ross Birchard, best known as Hudson Mohawke, played a significant role in shaping the sound of electronic music and hip-hop during the late 2000s and 2010s. A co-founder of the influential LuckyMe label and design studio, he was one of the leading names of the late-2000s "wonky" scene, producing a fractured variation on instrumental hip-hop consisting of unstable beats and colorful synth tones, drawing from chiptune, funk, IDM, and other styles. Signing to Warp significantly raised Mohawke's profile, and following the release of his kaleidoscopic, kitchen-sink 2009 debut album, Butter, he formed the duo TNGHT with Canadian producer Lunice. The pair's self-titled 2012 EP was enormously well received, and helped usher in the EDM subgenre known as trap. Mohawke then became a highly in-demand producer, working with hip-hop heavyweights such as Kanye West, Drake, Lil Wayne, and many others. Following his triumphant, ambitious sophomore album, Lantern (2015), Mohawke scored the soundtrack to the 2016 video game Watch Dogs 2 and reunited with Lunice, releasing TNGHT's II in 2019. Collaborations with Azealia Banks, Danny L Harle, and Jimmy Edgar all appeared in 2021, and third full-length Cry Sugar arrived in 2022.

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