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THIS IS NOT AI-GENERATED MUSIC. cUTEbRUTE is Sydney-based musician Mat Ward, who blends future bass, drum and bass, hyperpop, punk and politics for a different sound. He began making music in 2016 for his favourite rapper, Provocalz. Their first single together, "Behind Enemy Lines" got radio play worldwide. Mat Ward's debut solo release, Slow Car Crash, a jungle album about financial markets, was released in 2017. A chill trap album about Apple, Inside My Device, made entirely on an iPad, followed the same year. On July 31, 2018, when Mars was closest to Earth, he released Disrupted, a lo-fi future bass album about Elon Musk. In 2019, he released Five Eyes - a chill trap album about surveillance. A month later, Provocalz released his hip-hop EP "G.O.D", with all tracks produced by Mat Ward. In 2020, he released an acclaimed "future DnB" album about the media - Filter Bubble. In 2021, he released Interplanetary Species - an album about making humans multiplanetary. In 2022, he released an album based on protest chants, Why I Protest. In 2023, he released the album Climate Wars. In 2024, he released the album Take The Rad Pill, and in 2025, In Our Blood. in 2026, he is releasing his debut album as cUTEbRUTE, which blends cute vocals with brutish drums and bass. He writes a monthly music column (https://www.greenleft.org.au/glw-authors/mat-ward) that has been shared by the likes of Ru Paul, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello and Ministry's Al Jourgensen. He wrote "Around The World In 80 AAs", hailed as an "excellent book" by travelmag.co.uk. He also wrote the book "Real Talk: Aboriginal Rappers Talk About Their Music And Country", called "a must-read" by Britain's I Am Hip-Hop magazine. He also makes synthesizer controllers and synth presets.