MKSHFT

Producer and DJ MKSHFT is a genre-bending artist who brings together EDM and Indian music with a variety of influences to create hard-hitting tracks that demonstrate unmistakable musical talent and personality.

A mysterious figure who only performs behind a mask, MKSHFT joins the enigmatic ranks of Marshmello and Deadmau5, DJs who obscure their facial identity but inject a heady dose of personality into their maximalist sounds. He’s stated that his aim is to reach as wide an audience as possible by maintaining an anonymous identity, letting the music speak loudly for itself.

Growing up in London to Indian parents, MKSHFT developed a taste for sounds from his family’s home, incorporating traditional music with electronic textures and influences from comic books and video games to produce a technicolour fusion of styles that has excited critics and fans while turning the heads of influential DJs across the board and earning airplay on BBC Radio. 2016 saw him release reworks of classic Bollywood tracks, before developing his style further with the 2017 single ‘Juda’, an explosive EDM bombshell that’s seen huge support online and coverage in Dancing Astronaut, Grapevine and Bangin Beats.

The producer collaborated with Indian singer Shilpa Rao in 2018 on ‘Maahi’ before contributing to the internationally popular track ‘Slowly Slowly’, a collaboration between American rapper Pitbull and Indian singer-songwriter Guru Randhawa. Thanks to electrifying production from MKSHFT, the track became one of the world’s all-time most-viewed music videos in 24 hours, picking up 38 million views within a day of it’s release. Since reaching over 150 million views, the track introduced MKSHFT’s production to a global audience and has set the stage for him to dominate the electronic music scene over the next year.