AUDIO: Other Slater – “The D.O.P.E. EP”
Milwaukee’s electronic underground has a knack for producing artists who refuse to sit still in a single genre lane, and Other Slater is the poster child for that restless energy. The producer’s latest offering, The D.O.P.E. EP, arrives as a compact, high-voltage statement that further cements Other Slater’s reputation as one of the more inventive electronic voices working out of the city right now.
Where a lot of contemporary electronic releases lean on a single mood and ride it out, The D.O.P.E. EP takes the opposite approach. It’s built like a mixtape from someone who spends equal time on the dancefloor and in the headphones — bass-forward, texturally weird in all the right places, and unafraid to let a groove breathe before flipping the script entirely. Synth patches ping between glossy and gnarled, drum programming stays punchy without ever feeling paint-by-numbers, and the whole thing carries the kind of low-key swagger the title implies.
What makes the EP land is the pacing. Other Slater treats these tracks like a short film rather than a playlist, letting ideas develop just long enough to hook you before pivoting into something adjacent. It’s the sort of release that rewards a start-to-finish listen — headphones on, phone face-down, volume up.
If you’ve been sleeping on Milwaukee’s electronic scene, consider this your wake-up call. Stream The D.O.P.E. EP below and, if it hits the way it should, kick a few bucks toward the artist while you’re there.
