xavisphone (Kraków)

Although the Modern Love-released 'balança e paixão' was Xavi Herrera's debut solo album, the Dominican-Brazilian producer has been working quietly in the background for years, cooking up beats for artists like Vince Staples, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato. But the US industry gave him a headache that only a break in São Paulo could fix, and that's where he figured out his unique musical fingerprint, using his SoundCloud stream to sharpen his twisted funk ritmado variants.