Chrome Kids

Chrome Kids

Chrome Kids is a group associated with dubstep, hulk hop, acid crunk and glitch hop. The act describes itself as occupying the last remaining hip-hop warehouses while surrounding buildings are demolished for new department stores. In that setting, the group presents a sound built around heavy, digitally altered basslines and beats.

The image around Chrome Kids places it in decaying warehouse spaces with fading murals, crumbling brickwork and neglected roofs, but still standing as a home for cyberpunk and bass-focused listeners. The act also links itself to a wider history of warehouse party culture, alongside acid house, jungle and techno free parties held in neighbouring buildings.

Chrome Kids presents its music as part of a scene that values technology, bass and underground dance music, and frames its parties as continuing that tradition.