walking upstream…
Bizarrap
Gonzalo Julián Conde was born in 1998 in Ramos Mejía, on the edge of Buenos Aires, and taught himself record production alone in his bedroom, on a secondhand Lenovo with no MIDI keyboard and a cracked copy of FL Studio. "No tenía ni escritorio," he later said. "Producía con un almohadón en la cama... Me quedaba dormido con la computadora encima." He got his start editing comedy highlight reels of the city's freestyle-rap battles before turning those same beats toward production, launching "Bzrp Music Sessions" — one producer, one guest artist, filmed live in his room — with the rapper Bhavi in February 2019. The format has since carried Nathy Peluso, Quevedo, and Shakira to some of the biggest streaming numbers in Latin music: a bedroom producer's bet that the person behind the beat deserved the spotlight too.
the sound in question
2022
Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52Bizarrap
walk the tributaries ↓
Flume2010s · Future bass / Electronic / Wonky
By his first major interview in 2020, Bizarrap had already outgrown the EDM of his childhood. "Ahora mis referencias son otras, como Flume –para mí, es uno de los mejores productores del mundo," he told the Spanish outlet Mondo Sonoro, admitting his "máximo sueño" was to record with the Australian producer outright. Three years later, asked about the format that built his career — one producer's own release, one featured guest, no band — he traced it straight back to Flume: "Yo siempre admiré a artistas... que sacaban sus propios discos con invitados."
listen: upstream & heresource: Rolling Stone Argentina — "Bizarrap en el cielo con estrellas" (bio, Skrillex, Flume, Guetta) ↗
2016
Never Be Like YouFlume
2020
Nathy Peluso: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 36Bizarrap
listen forFlume's "Never Be Like You" is his own release built around a single guest, Kai, her voice chopped and pitch-warped over a spacious, bass-heavy low end that never fully resolves. Cue up "Nathy Peluso: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 36" next — the session Bizarrap has singled out as the one where his synth "firma," or signature sound, first appeared — and listen for the same trick: a guest vocal bent and layered until it becomes another instrument in the beat.
Skrillex2010s · Dubstep / Brostep / EDM
Bizarrap was 12 when he first heard Skrillex, and the Rolling Stone Argentina profile catches the fandom whole: too young to get into the American producer's 2012 Buenos Aires show, he finally saw him at Lollapalooza in 2015, then again with Diplo's Jack Ü in 2016. "No es un género que le agrade a todo el mundo y el chabón hizo que le guste a todo el mundo," he said of Skrillex's dubstep. "Fue tremendo."
listen: upstream & heresource: Rolling Stone Argentina — "Bizarrap en el cielo con estrellas" (bio, Skrillex, Flume, Guetta) ↗
2010
Scary Monsters and Nice SpritesSkrillex
2020
Snow Tha Product: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 39Bizarrap
listen forPlay Skrillex's "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" for its signature move: a mechanical, bass-driven drop that turns melody into rhythm. Rolling Stone Argentina points to the closing minute of "Snow Tha Product: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 39" as the clearest echo — the kick drum accelerating, the bassline swelling louder, the track sprinting toward the same kind of detonation Skrillex built his whole sound around.
David Guetta2010s · House / Electro house / Dance-pop / EDM
At 12, still in primary school, Bizarrap was already listening to David Guetta before Skrillex hit him like "el flash." "Tenía 12 años cuando conocí la música electrónica," he told Mondo Sonoro. "Escuchaba a David Guetta, Skrillex y todo lo que salía entre 2010 y 2011. Me preguntaba: ¿cómo será que estos tipos hacen la música?" Rolling Stone Argentina is blunter about the hierarchy: Guetta was simply "la figura más popular de ese momento" — the on-ramp, not the destination.
listen: upstream & here
2009
When Love Takes OverDavid Guetta
2023
Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53Bizarrap
listen forGuetta's 2009 hit "When Love Takes Over" pairs a stadium-scaled electronic beat with a single famous guest vocalist, Kelly Rowland, built for maximum, chart-topping crossover. "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" chases the same arithmetic on a bigger scale — one enormous global pop name over Bizarrap's beat, engineered to set streaming records in a single day. The connection is closer to shared ambition than shared sound; no direct line between the tracks is documented.