Shaggy Manatee is another artist bolstering Bay Area hip-hop's reputation for flirting with extremes both breezy and absurd. Not only that, he's the founder of both Pancake Circus and Quake Trap Records.
Shaggy Manatee has worked with countless artists recording and producing an ecclectic collection of sound, from Electro-fried Gangsta Rap to Melancholy Breakbeat to Hybrid Bay Hop to Experimental Pop. As a founding member of Pancake Circus he pushed the envelope of what is allowed in music and continues to strive for new sound through his work at Quake Trap. His first official solo release, In Between, brings all of the elements together, past, present, and future to create a masterwork as varied as everything that came before it. Alternately heavy, fun, dark, bouncy, hard, strange, deep, and absurd, In Between is like most things you might find here at Quake Trap: Like nothing that you have ever heard before...and instantly familiar.