By Myescha Joell
Carson Rammeit—higher often known as SIXFOOT 5—unveils BODY EROTICA, a pulsing ode to basic New York nights that bleed into daybreak. It’s a love letter to the town’s after-hours heartbeat: sweat-slicked dance flooring, rooftop house events, and people 5 AM moments that might solely occur within the Metropolis. Followers of digital pop, ambient movie scores, and LGBTQIA+ artistry will acknowledge his signature sound, however what they might not know is that behind his sonic precision lies the soul of an artist deeply attuned to life’s larger questions. By BODY EROTICA, SIXFOOT 5 isn’t simply crafting tracks—he’s channeling a frequency that resonates, revives, and calls for a visceral response.
“I consider this album as an announcement piece from begin to end. It’s meant to be a complete expertise – it’s BDSM instructed by way of digital dance and cinematic soundscaping. I consider it just like the underscoring to the listener’s essential character second. It’s the accompaniment to [their] journey, wherever and every time it’s. It’s meant to be a world versus a [collection of] songs,” shared SIXFOOT 5.
Whereas New York is a breeding floor for creativity, its relentless power can simply as simply create static—clouding imaginative and prescient and stalling momentum. For SIXFOOT 5, a months-long inventive block ultimately led him to take a step again. It wasn’t till a quiet stint house-sitting in Florida that the noise lastly cleared. After almost 5 months of silence, the music arrived abruptly—what some artists name a divine obtain, a transmission from someplace else, someplace greater. In simply six days, he composed, recorded, combined, and mastered the complete undertaking. BODY EROTICA wasn’t constructed within the conventional sense—it got here by way of like a imaginative and prescient, absolutely fashioned, demanding to be made actual.
“So usually once I’m making music, it doesn’t really feel prefer it’s mine—it feels prefer it’s God’s, and I’m simply the vessel, the translator. This undertaking poured out of me so rapidly that I’m nonetheless making an attempt to know it. On one stage, I do know what it’s about; on one other, I’m asking, ‘What are you making an attempt to inform me?’ It’s layered and sophisticated. It’s sexual, tense, stuffed with launch, and peculiar sounds. I even digitized my respiratory to make use of as a percussive device. It explores themes of sexual liberation and cinematic thrillers, wrapped in euphoric sounds. It’s a beast, and I’m simply beginning to peel again the highest layer,” defined SIXFOOT 5.
Launched on April twenty fifth, BODY EROTICA marks SIXFOOT 5’s 107th undertaking since 2021, a staggering output for an artist who as soon as shied away from the highlight. After releasing his first EP at 22 below a small indie label, he rapidly realized that performing didn’t align together with his inventive spirit. As a substitute, he discovered his stride behind the scenes, producing for different artists and serving to form their imaginative and prescient. He likens it to vogue—cinching, embellishing, and ensuring the ultimate look shines. With an intuitive grasp of emotion and storytelling, he excels at translating what others really feel into sound. But even in his work, there’s at all times a deeper assertion—a steadiness between private artistry and detailed craftsmanship that defines his strategy.
“I consider myself as akin to a dressmaker. Once I work with an artist, they grow to be my muse, they’re the mannequin, and I’m dressing them with the proper appears to be like for his or her physique and form. It’s at all times a mutually useful expertise. For me, music is the style of sound, and it’s my job to weave all of the totally different musical layers, observe by observe, little by little, into an EP or a single. On the core of my coronary heart, I really feel like a designer,” enthused SIXFOOT 5.
Although he sees himself as a dressmaker of sound, it was cinema that first drew SIXFOOT 5 to music. Movie scores have been his entry level, revealing how sound may elevate visible storytelling and stir profound emotion. Music has at all times moved him, however as he went on to elucidate, “Seeing it within the context of movie would make me weep.” Whereas ambient and incidental textures in his music draw closely from cinematic influences, his pop sensibilities are formed by the polished craftsmanship of Swedish producer Max Martin and the eclectic aptitude of Virginia’s Benny Blanco.
“I keep in mind watching this two-tape VHS set of Titanic once I was eight and falling in love with the rating. After that, each film I watched, I studied the rating. I wasn’t the child with tons of pop music on my iTunes—I had movie scores and instrumentals,” continued SIX FOOT 5, “I additionally actually admire what Max Martin has executed together with his profession. Once I was 13, I used to trace down instrumental variations of songs I cherished, discover the stems, and reverse-engineer them simply to know how the producer constructed that sound.”
In honor of Pleasure Month, SIXFOOT 5 has adopted up BODY EROTICA with a brand new EP titled “GOOD BOY”, launched on June fifth. Impressed by Raffertie’s evocative rating from The Substance, the one leans extra into pop however retains SIX FOOT 5’s signature minimalism—much less a centerpiece, extra an atmosphere enhancer. Very similar to BODY EROTICA, it occupies a liminal sonic house: half digital, half pop, half instrumental, and half incidental. His work resists simple categorization, finest described as a sort of temper ring—shifting in tone, feeling, and texture relying on the way it’s held as much as the sunshine.
“You go from listening to a dance banger to this sweeping John Williams, emotional symphonic piece. It’s actually what I’m feeling within the second. I’m privileged to have the ability to do this, and I feel a part of it’s as a result of I don’t concentrate on the numbers or the vacation spot. I simply need folks to stroll away feeling one thing,” shared SIXFOOT 5.
For those who’ve been to Basement in NYC, you might have already caught tracks like “Head Sport” or “Physique Depend.” If not, now’s the time to dive in—stream the total BODY EROTICA album and the brand new single “GOOD BOY” on all music streaming platforms and observe SIXFOOT 5 on socials for the newest news and updates.
