![]() Paul signed to the indie label XL, and gave his first and only interview, to Dazed, in 2011. Zane Lowe named “BTSTU” the Hottest Record in the World. tastemaker radio Drake and Beyoncé both sampled it. “I know I’ve been gone a long time, but / I’m back and I want what is mine,” the refrain went. The song built to something mournful, gorgeous, and overwhelming. Then came a sweet, offhand falsetto loop, a phrase that was sung like a person trying to dig up a memory then a kick drum, a snare, a full-body synth shudder. ![]() The demo began so quietly that you had to turn the volume up, just to hear static. Around that time, an Indian British musician named Jai Paul, from the suburban neighborhood of Rayners Lane, in northwest London, uploaded an old demo to MySpace titled “BTSTU.” He was nineteen, maybe twenty. ![]() ![]() In 2009, the Internet was not yet algorithmically consolidated it still seemed like a vast landscape of oddly shaped rocks that you could turn over to find something new. ![]()
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