Denver producer and NEST fam, Illenium, isn’t usually brought up in most conversations about ruthless bass and crushing blows of lowend, but that’s not at all to say he isn’t capable. While Illenium is mostly known for his superlative melodic awareness in bass music (as evident in his standout debut album, Ashes), he has recently linked up with fellow Colorado-based artist, Dirt Monkey, for a heavy, uncompromising original, “Bring Forth The Pressure”, which acts as the anchor track of the Pantheon collective’s compilation out this Friday via Artist Intelligence Agency. Nick (Illenium) tells NEST HQ about the collaboration over email —

“Bring Forth the Pressure” was such an awesome track to work on. It definitely shows another side of me but it’s nice to work on some of the heavy stuff too. Patrick (Dirt Monkey) is the man so it was really easy to get the chemistry going. This is one of my favorite tracks to play out live; just straight up insanity!

Led with hyped ragga vocals, “Bring Forth The Pressure” booms with crunching synth bass and finds itself as a standout amongst other killer compilation cuts from folks like LUMBERJVCK, Tha Trickaz, and Mark Instinct. Check out Illenium & Dirt Monkey’s “Bring Forth The Pressure” below and pick up the whole Pantheon compilation on May 6th.