Out EDM Artist Lil Texas Brings 'Texcore' to Lady Gaga's 'Chromatica' Remix Album

Last week, Lady Gaga announced "that a�'Chromatica'�remix album is on the way. And while she didn't reveal a release date, the singer tweeted, 'The�Chromatica�remix album is so f*cking fuego music is life,'" writes Billboard.

"At press time a spokesperson for Gaga could not be reached for comment on the release date or track listing for the album, but rumors about the remix of Mother Monster's dance-heavy 2020 sixth studio album began circulating in April, when frequent collaborator producer Bloodpop teased that Gaga�had something cooking," adds Billboard.

Among those artists collaborating on the remix project are Dorian Electra, Charli XCX. Rina Sawayama, Arca, and queer EDM artist Lil Texas, who is making his mark in the dance genre with what he calls "Texcore." In an interview with The Fader, which describes the 31-year old, Dallas-born, LA resident EDM style as being "loaded with synth stabs, horror film samples, and a clear punk and grindcore influence," and is "just about the furthest thing from the mainstream EDM market, where he's cultivated a surprisingly passionate following of listeners burnt out on the genre's runaway commercialism." And at 200BPM, "it's not the kind of music that fits particularly easily into an ordinary house or techno set."

Which, he admits, tends to alienate EDM purists, but, Fader adds, "it's clear that Lil Texas is onto something big – though perhaps not as big as the rhinestone cowboy hat on his head or sprawling tattoos across his arms and chest. Haters and skeptics, take notice."

Lil Texas described how "Texcore" came about. "�I was at a point where I wasn't really relating to the music that I was producing as much. I was doing the same thing over and over and over again expecting different results. I got to a place where I was going to quit music entirely. I ended up playing this festival set that was all hardcore. It was very well received and so I started messing around with making hardcore. As I got through it, I was like, "Yo 200 BPM is really like my tempo, I really like this music, I'm listening to this music."

He addressed how when he moved to LA he found himself being swallowed up by the city's party scene. "It got to a point where I had to get some help and change. For those people who don't know, I'm sober, I don't drink, I don't do drugs and stuff. For me, that's just a better way of life, it's much safer, much less risk. And what's funny is that I party even harder now. I just don't feel hungover the next day. But no judgment there."

His sobriety has anchored his life over the past six years. "LA's a great place to get sober. That helps me maintain a healthy state of mind so that I can go into spaces where people are using or people are partying really hard and be totally fine and not want to. My obsession to alter my reality has been sort of removed and lifted over the course of the past four-and-a-half years. I have a lot of experience doing things sober and that's been good. There's only some times where it's really crazy. But most of the time, I know what's on the other side of that, and I have enough experience fucking up from my early 20s to know what happens when I do those kind of things."

He also described how he turned heads in Amsterdam while producing music there. "I'm just walking Amsterdam and we're like, 'Dude, they've never seen a fucking cowboy.' Especially not one with like a fat neck tattoo and fucking rhinestones all over him, you know what I mean? I look like a fucking freak to those people."