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Madd Rod’s new ‘Rumors’ EP follows hot off the back of recent release ‘Frequent Flyer’ and marks his first release on Discotexas, and we are so proud to have him.

Madd Rod's vision of music comes from his early-developed curiosity, which has made the artist explore different soundscapes while finding his musical identity. For him, music is much more than an assembling of sounds: it is a constant reminder of the experiences he has lived through it.

Rodrigo (Madd Rod) was born in Lisbon and raised in its outskirts, being inevitably influenced by this intriguing melting pot. His music reflects this mess, mixing a fresh technological sound design with traditional elements from ancient cultures.

In 2017, right after releasing 'Afraid to Love' on Alex Ferrer's Deeplomatic Recordings, the artist moved to Tübingen, in the South of Germany, where he started to dig deeper into the realms of Melodic House & Techno. There he launched his first label, Inner Shah Recordings, and found a receptive crowd with whom he could field test his Melodic Techno tracks. He also met like-minded artists like Cedric Scheibel, with whom he shared the booth in the label's debut event and produced his first collaboration - Pit Viper.

In 2019, the artist decided to focus all his efforts on music, achieving key milestones which motivated him to go further. Two months after warming up for Oxia at Ministerium (Lisbon), Rod flew to Germany to headline Electric Sundown Festival, where he could field-test his 'The Chase' EP with his favorite crowd. During that Summer of 2019, he started his residency at The Lounge Vale do Lobo, where a growing audience keeps coming back for his eclectic sets of Organic House, Downtempo, and Melodic House. It’s also around this time he first caught our attention.

After embarking on his first tour, he met like-minded artists on a short halt at ADE and started producing the first tracks of his first studio album. During this tour, Madd Rod played gigs in Lisbon, Berlin, Tübingen, and Paris.

In 2020, the artist joined forces with the Lisbon-based Live Agency, with whom he launched VIAGE, his second record label, where he released EP’s such as No One's Fault, Belderone and Lust and Euphoria.

His first studio album 'Dystopian Desert' was released on Inner Shah on July 31st, 2020, and since then, Madd Rod released several EPs, singles and remixes, alone and in collaboration with other artists, across labels in the likes of Harabe, Tanzgemeinschaft, RYNTH, Androgyne Audio, Kitchen Recordings, among others and as he sets his sights on conquering the world with an impressive list of upcoming releases.

The next of those is ‘Rumors’, offering up two vibrant productions. Landing initially as a single ‘Rumors’ eases you into rich vintage synth wells and a hybrid blend of eastern influences top lines and throbbing bass line as the foundation. Brief vocal samples echo before the marching electronic returns.

‘Hindrances’ completes the EP, and sees Madd Rod maintain the pulsating bass yet with a more energetic feel to it, rounding off what will be an incredible return as he finally finds another home, this time on Discotexas, cementing a working relationship that is set to endure long into the future.