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    ‘I saw fan-made compilations. It blew my mind’: the music producer who found accidental K-pop fame

    Oct 23, 2023 4 minutes

    The Middle-Eastern guitar melody in Blackpink’s How You Like That. The whistle at the very beginning of S-Class by Stray Kids. The sax melodies in Money and Lalisa by Lisa. The crowd chants at the beginning of Seventeen’s Super. Each of these sounds, instantly familiar to fans of K-pop, came not from the Korean genre’s raft of super-producers but from one man, thousands of miles away.

    Very few people associate Niles Hollowell-Dhar with K-pop. Currently working under the mononym Kshmr, he first made a name for himself in the mainstream pop world for co-producing the 2010 electro-house banger . For the last decade, he has performed as a DJ at festivals including Coachella, Ultra, Sunburn,

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