Over the past ten years, the mononym “Doss” has come to represent something increasingly rare in the world of dance music: not just a sound, but an ethos, a tension—a collage of disparate moods coalescing around a single idea. From her 2014 self-titled debut to her 2021 EP, 4 New Hit Songs, the cult-favorite producer, vocalist, and DJ has worked with everything from manic drum patterns and vocal contortions to blustery ambient and shoegaze. At once far-reaching and conceptually unified, Doss’ artistic practice is best captured by her gnomic slogan: “It’s the music.” Don’t worry too much about trying to box it in.
Raised in Texas and based in New York, Doss first appeared on the taste-making label Acephalé before making her way to LuckyMe. Last year, by way of a wall-shaking single called “Jumpin,” she introduced the creative studio Duet. And though Doss has never shared much about her personal life, her design sensibility (marked by digital puppies, bubblegum pink vinyl editions, and nostalgic nods to the early internet) has always been a clear part of who she is. In her visuals, as in her music, Doss evokes the playful maximalism of the early 2000s with equal parts sincerity, humor, and mystery.
An underground fixture, Doss has always had major fans in big-name artists. SOPHIE, in particular, was a frequent collaborator: they toured together in 2018 and teamed up for the legendary unreleased track “New York’s Burning Down” and a version of “Whole New World”on the OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES NON-STOP REMIX ALBUM. Doss has spent thepast few years remixing tracks for artists like Lady Gaga, Caroline Polachek, AG Cook, and Eartheater, as well as putting out her own exclusive DJ mixes via Apple Music, NTS, and TripleJ. She’s also played shows with Porter Robinson, and toured with Polachek and Yves Tumor in between selling out her own shows in the US and abroad.
CFCF (aka Mike Silver) is a Grammy-nominated and Polaris Prize-shortlisted electronic musician, producer and composer from Montreal, Canada. His first album, the diverse and disco-influenced ‘Continent’ was released in 2009 to critical acclaim, with the Werner Herzog-inspired EP ‘The River’ following on renowned imprint RVNG Intl. Two EP’s exploring modern classical music, ‘Exercises’ and ‘Music for Objects’, explored our intangible relationship to the tangible, while his 2nd album ‘Outside’ engaged with the adult-oriented rock of the 1980s.
