The Dark Electro Sound of Mr. StarZ and Where It Went After Electric Found

A Two-Track 2021 EP Where Dark Wave Mood Meets the Club Floor

Two tracks, nine minutes and 20 seconds, one name stitched from both titles: Electric plus Get Found. Mr. StarZ released the Electric Found EP at the end of 2021 on the Sounds Of Meow label. It catches a producer working where the gloom of dark wave meets the push of the club.

Mr. StarZ opens the Electric Found EP with Electric. That track now sits in the playlist below with the desk’s dark pop and coldwave picks, and his past coverage is on his artist profile. The EP reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Put it on, then read the rest.

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The EP sets three ideas side by side. Dark wave brings the mood, EDM the energy and commercial vocal dance the hooks. That mix has a history, and Mr. StarZ has a clear place in it.

From Late-Seventies Dark Wave to the Modern Club, the Darker Sound Electric Found Plugs Into

Dark wave began in Europe in the late 1970s as a gloomier offshoot of new wave and post-punk. It had slower tempos and deeper vocals. It never really went away, and the genre has seen a revival in recent years. Meanwhile, its darker palette kept turning up in club music.

Gesaffelstein is the clearest example. The Lyon producer, often called the Dark Prince of Techno, built an electro-industrial sound. Then he carried it into pop. He co-produced Black Skinhead on Kanye West’s Yeezus and released Lost in the Fire with the Weeknd. As a result, that darker palette reached some of the biggest stages in pop.

The Electric Found EP points at that lane from the American club side. Mr. StarZ calls himself a multi-genre EDM DJ and producer. In 2021 his releases moved between house, bass-heavy club tracks and darker electronic moods.

Boston Roots, a Las Vegas Education and a Florida Base

Mr. StarZ was born and raised in Boston. He got into house music while at college in Las Vegas, which is also where he learned the craft. Today he lists both Massachusetts and Florida as his bases. In Florida he ran an Orlando-based label, TSKMO Records, which released his single Lagos in 2021. He also played festivals there, including one in DeLand.

The name has a family story behind it, which he shared with HipHop Paranoia in 2021. His parents own a boat called StarZ, and the family has taken it out since he was a child.

Then came a fast 2021. First, Disappear arrived in July as his debut single. Next came Blastback, with the rapper Wiser Observer, in August. By March 2022 it had passed 95,000 Spotify streams, according to DCR. Lagos, again with Wiser Observer, rides a strong, deep brass line. He sent the rapper a rough instrumental, and Wiser Observer wrote and recorded his verses over it. Finally, MindReader in September put a new spin on KastomariN’s club song of the same name. Sinusoidal Music singled out its heavy, distorted synth bass and four-on-the-floor kick.

Where Electric Found by Mr. StarZ Sits Between Dark Electro and Bass House, and the Acts Nearby

The Electric Found EP closed that run of five releases in four months. It sits at the darker end. Electric runs to 4:53 and Get Found to 4:27, and both credit Mr. StarZ as their only writer. Rats on the Run added him to its Broken Radio playlist for December 2021, a month after the EP came out. The blog summed him up as “a cursed world of all things electro”.

On one side of the EP sits the dark electro of Gesaffelstein. On the other sits Malaa, the balaclava-wearing French producer whose single Notorious broke him on Tchami’s Confession label. Malaa is also one of the bass house names Mr. StarZ has named as an influence, alongside Michael Sparks and Aresta. In short, Electric Found is where those two pull against each other. It takes the mood of one and the floor of the other.

Where the Sound Went After 2021

Since then, the balance has tipped towards the floor. His Spotify biography now describes energetic tech house, house and UK garage. He also curates an A-List playlist of bass house and tech house every two weeks. In March 2022, DCR listed a show for him at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Nazariff and Remy Steele.

Meanwhile, his radio show, Starlight Radio, reached its 111th episode on 2 October 2026 with ten tech house tracks. New singles keep coming too: Let This Ride, Addicted, Rainy Rooftops and Closer to the Bass all arrived in 2026.

So who is it for? First, listeners who like Gesaffelstein’s darker electro but want something closer to a club track. Second, bass house fans who follow Malaa and want to hear where a producer from that world started. Finally, DJs looking for a moody opener, since both tracks run past four minutes.

From the ElectroPop.News Curator Team: “Naming an EP after its own two tracks is a neat bit of packaging. It suits the music: two moods, one record. Electric Found catches Mr. StarZ at the point where dark electro and the club floor were still pulling in different directions.”

Where to Hear Electric Found and Follow Mr. StarZ

Start with Electric, then let Get Found play straight after, in the order the EP runs. After that, jump to Let This Ride to hear how far the sound has travelled since 2021.

Stream the Electric Found EP on Spotify or Apple Music, then follow Mr. StarZ across platforms:

• Stream: Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Bandcamp
• Watch: the YouTube channel
• Follow: Instagram, Facebook and X, or find every link on his Linktree

His 2026 single Let This Ride is on every major platform.

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