Tommy Kruise has been played on NTS shows including Mamiko Motto, with Basement first played on 13 February 2015.

If you’ve done that thing called “going out and having fun” in Montreal in the last two years—especially if your definition of fun is getting fucked up and dancing to rap sub-genres—you’ve seen his face behind the booth or on that shirt with a weird-lookin’ dude with a huge joint danglin’ from his lips. That dude is Tommy Kruise. Kruise is pretty much everywhere right now, doing everything from spots at events like Boiler Room MTL to gigs in New York City. Last year, the DJ and producer dropped Memphis Confidential Vol. 1, a seven-track EP his Bandcamp page calls “straight Memphis buck gangsta beats for the stoners.” And currently in the works are a record on Vase, Jacques Greene’s label, and a hush-hush project that will see him collaborating with American rappers. As Vice put it, “If you’re not familiar with Tommy Kruise yet, you’re not really paying attention to small-town Québécois beatmakers.