RL Grime
| RL Grime | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Henry Alfred Steinway |
| Also known as | Clockwork |
| Born |
February 8, 1991 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Electronic,hip hop,grime, trap, electro house, dutch house, bigroom house, festival trap, chill trap |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, DJ |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | Wedidit, Fool's Gold, Mad Decent , Dim Mak |
| Associated acts | D33J, Groundislava, Ryan Hemsworth, Shlohmo, Baauer, Just Blaze, Flosstradamus |
| Website | rlgri |
(Quinton Jarboe)
Henry Steinway (born February 8, 1991), better known by his stage name, RL Grime, and also known as Clockwork is an American producer of hip hop, trap, grime and bass music, and member of the Los Angeles electronic music collective WeDidIt. His debut Grapes EP was released in April 2012 on WeDidIt. His follow-up EP High Beams was released in July 2013 on Fool's Gold Records, which debuted at #8 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart, and #1 on the iTunes Electronic Chart. RL Grime has produced remixes for Benny Benassi,Chief Keef,Jamie Lidell, and Shlohmo.
Steinway grew up in Los Angeles, California. There, he attended Windward School in Mar Vista. In 2009, he graduated from Windward and enrolled at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, with a focus in music business. In 2010 after his freshman year, he transferred from Northeastern to New York University, majoring in music business. In 2012, Steinway moved back to Los Angeles and currently resides there.
In 2011 RL Grime joined the WeDidIt collective with fellow Los Angeles-born producers Shlohmo, Groundislava, and D33J. In April 2012 he released his debut release on the WeDidIt label, the Grapes EP, featuring four original tracks and remixes from Shlohmo, Salva, and LOL Boys.
In June 2012, RL Grime teamed up with producer Salva for a remix of Kanye West's "Mercy", which has garnered over eight million plays on SoundCloud and was called by The Fader "just massive, as if hail and tsunami waves were both byproducts of bass." In December 2012, RL Grime was tapped for an official remix of Benny Benassi's notorious song "Satisfaction", which gained over one million Soundcloud streams and charted in the top five on the Beatport electro house chart.
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