We first found the producer Puar through his collaborations with Vancouver’s bsd.u and we had the good fortune to catch his set last weekend at the Grove Cedar Lounge, a side stage at Shambhala Music Festival on the Salmo River Ranch in British Columbia, Canada. He was playing his signature style of highly vocalized phonk, some lo-fi, and a ton of straight west coast bass beats evocative of the Lab Group.

This BC-based producer has been making beats for what appears to be three years and he has a healthy, diverse catalog to show for it. His signature sound is composed of big booming bass lines, trap drums, and hip-hop vocal samples but he also has more low-key lo-fi bops. He collaborates frequently with bsd.u, and he spun a ton of the producer’s music during his Shambhala set. He closed this killer set with a heartwarming remix of “Shawty” by Plies. At an electronic music festival, arguably the electronic music in North America, it was refreshing to hear Puar’s low-down and lighthearted blend.

He has six tapes on Bandcamp including three volumes of PUAR BEATS, the latest of which was just released in July of this year. In a style of music where it’s all too easy to get lost in the thousand-producer shuffle, Puar has carved out a lane all his own and we’re excited to see where it takes him.

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