“Coco” Blaned doesn’t work in genres. He builds tension, rewires sound, and lets emotion drive the design. Based in Halifax but born in Ottawa, he’s digging into a palette pulled from everywhere—hip hop, electronic, emo, folk, noise, classical. It’s all fair game if it helps say what needs saying.
His music feels like internet anxiety at 2 a.m., like doomscrolling with headphones. It’s jagged and emotional. Heavy and weird. Neurotic and real. He calls it Sporadic Music. It’s abstract, but always personal and emotional. Messy, but built with intention. It blurs structure like Vegyn. It shocks like JPEGMAFIA. It spirals like Aphex Twin running Windows 98. And it lingers even after the beat ends. Blaned isn’t trying to make hits. He’s trying to build a sonic archive for what today feels like.
Blaned is focused on texture and stakes. What the world feels like when things aren’t just chaotic—they’re almost unreadable. That’s where his beats live. That—and the moments when they nearly disappear into calm. To soundtrack rupture, collapse, memory, overstimulation, and quiet judgment of the modern state—personal or global. This isn’t background music for studying. It’s a portal for sitting with the disorienting parts of now, and his most recent single “…want dirt. Literally” is a perfect example of this uncanniness.
Blaned creates work for people clawing through the mess for something real. People who like their art scrappy and layered. He doesn’t style himself as a savior or prophet—he’s an architect of anxiety who turns it into rhythm, spikes, and tone. There’s no hand-holding in his sound design. But there’s always feeling.
If the world feels cracked open, Blaned’s music sounds like what spills out.
His latest single titled “…want dirt. Literally”—a sharp, glitch-spiked feature track with Philly firestarter Ghais Guevara—is the postscript to Blaned’s biggest statement to date: Failed State, a full-length album dropped earlier this year. It’s a volatile sound map about the erosion of systems—political, emotional, digital. “…want dirt. Literally” is the latest track teasing this “Failed State (Extended)” album, which can be expected to release near the end of 2025.
More info: https://www.blanedmusic.com
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Company Name: Blaned Music
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City: Halifax
State: NS
Country: Canada
Website: https://www.blanedmusic.com