Left-field DJ/producer Kutmah worked with broken beats, wobbly time signatures, and spaced-out samples when making his own brand of instrumental hip-hop. Albums like 2017's TROBBB! called on both the sunny warmth of West Coast hip-hop production and the outer reaches of intergalactic synth sounds.
Kutmah was born Justin McNulty in Brighton, England, but at the age of 12, he moved with his Egyptian mother and Scottish father to Hollywood, California. In the early 2000s, he became part of the Los Angeles-based non-profit Web radio collective Dublab. His abstract productions we...