Today, Terrell Hines releases the song and video for “Wu Dirt.” He will release additional tracks in the next weeks, leading up to the August 7 release Portal One: The Mixtape. There will be a visual component for all tracks included on the mixtape. While in quarantine, he is shooting his own videos with a combination of green screen and ingenuity.
Listen to “Wu Dirt” here and watch the video here.
Terrell Hines will release his debut mixtape, via Capitol Records, on August 7. He is incredible, an artists’ artist, featured on the title track of Beck’s latest “Hyperspace,” and a songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer with influences as broad as Outkast, Joy Division, Four Tet, Migos, Kendrick and more. The Berklee College of Music gave Hines a full ride, and people’s first exposure to his music was when it was chosen to be used in the 2019 Apple keynote. Without releasing an album or touring in the U.S. yet, he has amassed more than 2 million streams.
The concept that drives his music — an even split of postmodern and post-apocalyptic — is how he funnels all his obsessions into what he does best. He’s a renaissance man who can be found devouring books on linguistics, synesthesia, or evolutionary psychology in his downtime. Or considering which metals one would want to gather following a catastrophe, then actually sampling those metals in the studio.
“I’m trying to engineer the future,” says Hines.
