Modern dance music has always looked to hip-hop for inspiration. But few subgenres owe as much to rap production as electronic music’s strain of trap, which borrows its rapid-fire hi-hats, skittering snares and 808 kicks and mixes them with rave synths and EDM builds and drops for a different flavour of speaker-blowing bass music. Underground artists such as Glasgow’s Hudson Mohawke (and his partnership with Montrealer Lunice, TNGHT) gave birth to the style almost as a bit of a joke. But with the late-2000s rise of big-room house and Southern rap, it was just a matter of time before the intermingling of the two would reach epic proportions. Not only did HudMo and Lunice end up producing tracks for Drake, Lil Wayne and Kanye West, but by the early 2010s, EDM trap had minted itself a certified hit when Brooklyn producer Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” went viral in a series of fan-made choreographed videos. Artists like Rustie and RL Grime continued to push trap’s leftfield sound while the genre evolved throughout the mainstream via Dillon Francis, DJ Snake, and Keys N Krates’ festival-grade beats and hip-hop collaborations.