Given his penchant for taking the road less travelled, it makes sense that Surya Sen’s namesake is a Bangladeshi teacher turned revolutionary. The British-Bengali producer and rapper is in the midst of a transformation of his own and in “Earn It”, he’s documenting the relentless pace of the capital that’s pushing him.
Landing off the back of a collaboration with NiNE8 Collective rapper Bone Slim and a remix from DJ Boring, it comes as no surprise that the London-based artist is stitching together the motifs of his favourite sounds. It’s part of a genre-agnostic approach that’s become one of the few certainties in an unpredictable journey thus far through house, garage, and hip-hop adjacent cuts. This attitude comes into full focus in a throbbing bassline that shares DNA with that of LCD Soundsystem’s “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House” and is sampled from NSG’s track and namesake “Earn It”.
