Su Real
New Delhi
Su Real is an award-winning music producer and DJ known for pioneering new genres like Trap, Moombahton and Desi Bass in India. For over a decade, Su Real has raged and raved at the rapidly-evolving forefront of homegrown popular culture, representing the new era of Indian-origin dance music producers who create and curate for the modern Indian dancefloor. His all-inclusive approach to music ensures his status as a champion of the underground who can also whip a main-stage crowd into hysteria.
This penchant for being ahead of the curve led to his winning 1st prize on “The Remix”, a musical competition on Amazon Prime Video. The original show premiered in 2018 and was viewed in over 200 countries. Building on this success, he was invited to produce a monthly mixtape for BBC Asian Network as part of Bobby Friction's popular show. Meanwhile, his track ‘Bajre De Soundboy’ was licensed for the EA FIFA '18 trailer, which hit over 7 million views across platforms.
Taking his signature style across the country, Su Real has performed at major music festivals including Sunburn, Vh1 Supersonic, NH7 Weekender, Red Bull Tour Bus, Magnetic Fields, MTV Bloc Party, India Bike Week, Timeout72, and more. Su Real has shared the stage with Indian pop icons like Amit Trivedi, Nucleya, Divine, Ritviz, and Rashmeet Kaur as well as a veritable who’s who of international dance music: Major Lazer, Skrillex, Diplo, Marshmello, among many others.
In this new era of viral trends and overnight sensations, Su Real has, over the years, gradually crystallized into a known constant in India’s music scene. In 2008, after 10 years as a music publicist and party-hopper between New York and Montreal, he returned home to his native New Delhi, where a growing local scene was taking shape. Of course, he dove right in - programming the events and cultural activities at the legendary T.L.R., the first venue that lit up Hauz Khas Village with non-commercial music and alternative arts & culture.
Su Real initially gained notoriety as a DJ in 2010 with his Disco 31 nights at T.L.R. It was here that he truly developed his unique “bashment” DJ-ing style that incorporates Hip Hop, Dancehall, Reggaeton, EDM, and an endless variety of nano-genres and global, ethnic flavors into a massive masala mix. Yesterday’s classics mingle with the latest hits, as everything gets mixed up, mashed up, fried up and served fresh for the desi dancefloor! During a time when most Indian nightclubs only allowed Bollywood music, trance or retro top40 nights, Su Real was hosting the country’s first Trap nights and Moombahton parties, importing new sounds and styles for young, Internet-savvy audiences hungry for the latest trends.
By 2013, Rolling Stone India declared, “Su Real is the legendary secret ingredient to some of Delhi’s recent favorite underground sets / parties / combinations thereof.” GQ India further attested to the hype, “When he’s not playing mad professor in his West Delhi beat lab, he’s as likely to be tearing up a festival green room or inciting a thousand simultaneous heart attacks from behind the decks.”
Su Real then released two landmark, critically acclaimed full-length albums, ‘Trapistan’ (2014) and its follow-up ‘Twerkistan’ (2016). Both albums were ahead of their time for the Indian market, introducing Indian music fans to Trap, Twerk, and Moombahton. Although these were nascent, unfamiliar sub-genres at the time, today they dominate the global soundscape - in India, as well.
Nucleya was an early benefactor, offering him key support slots on his tours & album launches. Paying it forward, Su Real was one of the first to recognize young Ritviz’s potential, collaborating with him on a track (‘Turn Up’) and selecting him for opening slots. The Mumbai Mirror wrote, “While fellow producer/DJ Nucleya has spearheaded the genre of Desi Bass, it is Su Real who has added weight to the genre and converted it into a movement.”
SU REAL’s tracks
published on
published on
published on
published on
published on
published on
published on
published on
published on