A festival ID that finally becomes a track
"Smoke" has been circulating in sets since 2022. Under the name "Killers", the track had already built a solid reputation before even officially existing — those few seconds captured on video at festivals, that unmistakable bass line, that wait stretching across three years. On May 1, 2026, Skrillex, ISOxo, Cristale and TeeZandos finally put the track on streaming platforms. And it delivered.
What you hear
"Smoke" combines Skrillex and ISOxo's registers with brutal efficiency. You can hear Sonny Moore's dubstep DNA — that way of building a drop that crushes everything before it — blended with ISOxo's colder, more industrial trap production. All carried by the UK drill vocals of Cristale and TeeZandos: precise flows, a direct tone, an energy that perfectly matches the track's soundscape. The track is built to work in large formats, with the sonic density that comes with it. Yet it still holds something effective in headphone listening — the production details hold up at every scale.
Three years of festival ID, a reputation built on a few seconds of blurry video, and finally a track that fully delivers on what it promised.
The four behind the track
Skrillex
Production
Sonny Moore. Pioneer of American dubstep, founder of OWSLA. Always showing up where you least expect him.
ISOxo
Production
Dalton Tran, San Diego. Experimental trap, bass music. Second collab with Skrillex after "fuze" in late 2025.
Cristale
Vocals · UK Drill
British rapper from the UK drill scene. First collaboration with Skrillex.
TeeZandos
Vocals · UK Drill
UK drill rapper. Completes the vocal duo with Cristale. First collaboration with Skrillex.
What we take away
After "fuze" dropped in late 2025, this is the second Skrillex/ISOxo collaboration, and clearly not the last. The crossover between their worlds — dubstep on one side, experimental trap on the other — produces something that sounds like no one else. The addition of Cristale and TeeZandos's UK drill vocals gives the track a hybrid dimension that perfectly suits the moment. "Smoke" is out on OWSLA / Atlantic. It didn't need three years of anticipation to be good, but that didn't hurt either.