Producer Kaytranada arrived during the early 2010s with ear-perking remixes and an array of sounds that veered from J Dilla-inspired hip-hop beats to woozy house grooves. Numerous commissioned works and short-form solo releases led to the Haitian-Canadian's full-length debut 99.9%, the winner of 2016's Polaris Music Prize and 2017's Juno award for Electronic Album of the Year. Kaytranada followed up in 2018 with an EP for major-label RCA.
Born Louis Kevin Celestin in Haiti, the Montreal, Quebec-raised Kaytranada, a voracious listener, got hooked on DJ'ing and production du...