d00mscrvll, Vol. 1

The zeitgeist-capturing DJ/producer, who’s spent more than two decades chasing the sickest new sounds bubbling up across the globe, would like to direct your attention towards phonk—the endlessly mutating strain of trap music inspired by the eerie rawness of ’90s Memphis rap, with faster tempos and heavier distortion seemingly every week. Introducing his *d00mscrvll* project in the spring of 2025, Diplo spoke of growing up obsessing over Memphis legends like Three 6 Mafia as a kid, then witnessing their influence evolve in unexpected, postmodern new directions. (His own definition of phonk in all its many iterations is as good as anyone’s: “Basically Memphis run through a vortex and then painted rainbow colors and then screwed and chopped and taken apart and then put into videos that take over your entire feed.”) The first volume in the *d00mscrvll* mixtape series taps Memphis OGs like Juicy J and Project Pat, plus Dominican rapper Nfasis and Brazil’s MC Lan, for quick, chaotic bursts of songs inspired by Memphis phonk, Brazilian phonk, and cowbell-heavy phonk-house for all your overstimulating, disassociating pleasures.