[Interview] Black Tiger Intercourse Machine Talks ‘OMEN’ EP, OMEN Dwell Present, and BTSM Manga

Black Tiger Intercourse Machine (BTSM) have carved a novel and highly effective house throughout the bass music scene, changing into one of the crucial celebrated bass acts on the planet. Past their hard-hitting productions, they’re famend for immersive dwell experiences that fuse cutting-edge visuals, dynamic lighting, and their iconic Tiger Helmets, all managed dwell. Their devoted fanbase, the BTSM Church, is a testomony to how their music can encourage, inspire, and produce collectively a neighborhood.

BTSM’s world attain is plain, with numerous exhibits throughout continents and performances at main festivals like Lollapalooza, EDC Las Vegas, and Extremely Miami. Their ‘Futuristic Thriller’ and ‘PORTALS’ excursions pushed the boundaries of dwell efficiency, integrating cinematic storytelling and state-of-the-art movement seize visuals, promoting out iconic venues like Purple Rocks and Brooklyn Mirage. The ‘PORTALS’ present, offered in 4K Extremely Huge, marked a brand new period of their dwell expertise, as did their revolutionary ‘Anime Present’ and the ‘SKULL MACHINE’ b2b with Kai Wachi.

Arising this weekend, they’re taking up the Tacoma Dome on April 4 and April fifth alongside Rusko, Reaper, G Jones, and Eprom simply to call a number of. Evening 1 will function a SKULL MACHINE efficiency and night time 2 will likely be your likelihood to catch the OMEN present. Later this yr, BTSM will likely be acting at EDC Las Vegas, Extremely Peru, EDC Korea, Forbidden Kingdom, and ILESONIQ.

Tickets for the present and the remainder of their tour may be discovered right here.

Past their very own success, BTSM spearheads Kannibalen Data, a number one unbiased dance music label that has launched the careers of artists like Apashe and Kai Wachi. Kannibalen’s affect extends past music, with partnerships spanning Apple, Netflix, Marvel, and extra.

On this interview, we’ll delve into BTSM’s newest OMEN EP, upcoming Omen Dwell tour, and the way it all pertains to their manga.

Hey guys, your newest OMEN EP simply dropped and the paintings is wonderful! From what we all know, it’s associated to your upcoming manga. Are you able to share extra concerning the EP and the way it connects to the BTSM universe?

For the previous few albums we’ve actually been honing in on increasing our fictional universe and all of the lore. With OMEN, we’ve had the largest addition of latest characters together with Basic Taiyō and his followers and extra Related Fighters that can help our titular character Naomi that’s been part of our saga for the reason that first Film Expertise tour a number of years in the past.

By increasing on each side from the heroes to the villains, we’re aiming to make this post-apocalyptic world really feel a lot larger, advanced and finally extra actual. The earlier storylines had been extra intimate and singular, however now now we have much more to play with that will likely be absolutely fleshed out between the brand new dwell present, the EP and the upcoming Manga.

What can we count on out of your upcoming OMEN dwell present and the way will it’s completely different out of your earlier excursions?

With our earlier excursions we’ve examined out a number of completely different avenues concerning the way to tie-in our fictional universe to the present. First we had the dwell motion Film Experiences, then we had the Anime Present. OMEN is a fruits and evolution of every of these, bringing collectively the tales and characters for essentially the most complete immersion into our world.

The Anime present was an important proof of idea for us and helped us to see the crossover between the followers of dance music and anime. With OMEN we actually simply went all in for a very authentic multimedia expertise.

Your ‘Cheatcode’ VIP dropped in March which has a techno spin on it, are you able to share extra concerning the observe and can we see extra techno releases sooner or later?

We’ve been taking part in a little bit little bit of techno in our exhibits for a very long time and it offers our units a pleasant change of tempo between the heavier bass and a few of the extra traditional electro we additionally throw in. For the VIP we wished to do one thing completely different that we might additionally use as a transition in our units, so it simply made sense to go the techno route. With a few of our newer characters in OMEN, we additionally wished to present them a form of sonic ID and “Cheatcode” VIP match with our mischievous related fighter Zoe.

The dance music business is consistently evolving with completely different trending sounds and subgenres, what sound do you assume will pop off in 2025?

There’s so many extremely gifted artists within the bass world which have been performing some distinctive issues. It’s laborious to pinpoint precisely the place issues can go, however with entice music making its means again to the forefront we predict the hybrid entice route is one thing we’ll see extra of due to artists like ISOxo, Kai Wachi returning to his extra entice roots in some tracks, and particularly with Skrillex’s newest album. From extra heavy sounds to melodic anthems, hybrid entice has a whole lot of potential.

Social media is crucial in right now’s business to attach with followers and to showcase artist identification. What sort of affect has social media had in your artist careers in the newest years?

Social media has been our greatest neighborhood builder. We do quite a bit to create a way of neighborhood and openness at exhibits, however social media is actually the place you construct the household. We work together day by day with followers and make it some extent to be concerned of their lives as a result of we wouldn’t be right here with out our fan’s help. From giveaways, to livestreams, to the fan teams and past, we attempt to do as a lot as we will to connect with our followers in essentially the most genuine methods potential.

From all of the venues that you’ve got carried out at on the planet, do you may have any favorites?

That is in all probability the commonest reply however we’ll get it out of the best way first haha. Purple Rocks! A few of our different favorites embrace Place Bell in Montreal (our hometown), WAMU in Seattle, The Torch in LA and BK Mirage.

Do you may have the rest that you just want to share along with your followers?

We’re presently engaged on tons of latest music, a number of collabs and naturally we’re deep in the midst of the OMEN Manga. It’s in contrast to something we’ve finished earlier than so there’s been quite a bit to study and it’s been a pleasure placing this collectively. We are able to’t anticipate followers to get their fingers on it later this yr!

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