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In Conversation: Bart Skils & Weska Interview Each Other

When Weska (Cody Hull) was just 20 when he remembers walking through the bitter Canadian cold, dissecting every percussive detail of ‘New Ground’, Bart Skils’ low-end groover that dropped on Drumcode in 2012. Seven years later, the young Toronto-born artist is celebrating a debut EP on Adam Beyer’s fabled label. And to close a circle, it’s a collaborative work with Dutch journeyman Bart Skils, no less.

While the Polarize EP marks Weska’s first time on a Drumcode cover slick (followers will note he dropped ‘Other Places’ on last year’s A-Sides compilation), Skils has almost ten DC releases to his name and a deep connection with Beyer going back to the early 2000s when the pair would play Awakenings events alongside one another.

With almost 20 years separating the artists and vastly different backgrounds, they reflected on their respective career journeys in a conversation piece for 6AM.

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