Justin Hawkes charged onto the DnB scene under his Flite moniker and In 2020 dropped the Flite moniker in favor of Justin Hawkes. Justin is back with a new release, “Existential.”
The album features 15 tracks, including opening with tracks like “Inheritance” and “Arbiter” (featuring PAV4N from Foreign Beggars), which convey power and intensity, to the more mellow and rock-infused “The End of an Empire.”
Hawkes told us “I’m a big film guy, often leaning towards the existential questions and mysterious possibilities of human progress. The organic and moving sounds of composers like Jon Hopkins and Hans Zimmer really interest me as well, and that played a key part in my mindset while producing the album. I am pleased that ‘Existential’ as a body of work grasps the essence of what makes me think, feel, and makes me myself, all within a musical format I am exceptionally passionate about.”
“Existential manifests as a self-portrait,” says Hawkes. “It weaves between my thoughts, philosophy, and history, both within my career as a Drum & Bass artist in America and internally through the unknown future. The title itself represents the existential scenarios that have formed who I am, exploring my journey through crisis, the weight and forgotten wisdom of the past, and even the sometimes-comedic power of being an outlier.”
Listen below.