Taska Black’s relationship with music has been evolving his entire life. His mother signed him up for violin lessons when he was four, and by age seven, he was playing in a rock band in his native city, Antwerp. When he was 18, he decided to stop listening to other artists “and just create the music that’s in my brain.”

This music ended up falling squarely into the future bass genre lifting off at that time and found a home at San Holo’s bitbird label. Black was soon touring heavily, performing at festivals including Bonnaroo, Splash House and Paradiso. Meanwhile, his music earned 100 million total streams.

Then the pandemic hit, and Black posted up at home. The time off gave him space to delve into new realms of music, primarily indie pop, that make up his latest releases: his 2022 EP Expectations, his brightly anthemic single “Power,” and his newest tracks, “Don’t Look Back” and “Honest”. “I want to stay true to what I like now,” he says, “and I want to always keep evolving that.”