Brazilian musician and DJ Alok reveals his new ‘Something Else’ alias and how he plans to experiment and create various types of new music, and more.

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Alok:

I think that the main goal about ‘Something Else’ is really like you just become that big, that so so giant, that everything is super big, and then you just miss also a different kind of connection you know?

Tetris Kelly:

Alok has transformed to Something Else, and with a new name comes a brand-new track.

When you say ‘Something Else,’ I don’t want to say that one kind of style of genre. I just want to be like ‘it’s something else from that Alok pop that you saw Belém.’ You know?

Tetris Kelly:

The Brazilian dance icon spoke exclusively with Billboard about branching out from pop with this new sound.

Alok:

What happened is that, you know, I’ve been performing for the last 20 years or more, and I started with, like, side trends, very underground. And then I made a choice in my life, which was like, I wanted to go into more of this pop world, and I became this pop artist, you know, you’re playing for, like, 1 million people. You’re playing those big structures and, you know, this massive production. And of course, sometimes when you’re going to play in some places where it doesn’t fit so much, you know, this huge structure, I just feel that there’s a lot of people that I want to connect with and they also want to connect with me.

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