Prepare to be hooked! Cizflow and Seancy, known as Flowmads, have just released their latest single, “Bingo Bango,” and it’s a must-listen. With roots in Hawaii and California, Flowmads take the laid-back style of traditional reggae music and blend it with hip hop and bass-heavy electronic production to create one infectious sound.

“It’s really just a representation of what we like. Dope beats, catchy rhymes, and good vibes,” said Flowmads.

Read on for our full interview with the dynamic duo and listen to their music on White Label.

How did you get your artist name and what is the significance?

Around 2017 we were both known locally as MCs with a dope flow and style, and we were trying to come up with something that reflected who we were in life. So we combined the words ‘flow’ and ‘nomad’ to get ‘Flowmads.’ That inspired our motto, ‘nomads united in a flow state,’ and from that, we also gained our mascot, the jellyfish, who is just always going with the flow. 

The name signifies that we are traveling the universe with the intent to spread good vibes through music, community, and honest expression. To be a Flowmad is to be someone who is able to go with the flow of life, stay fluid, and be easygoing while at the same time having impeccable style and charisma.

Where do you call home? And how has your hometown influenced your musical style?

Cizflow grew up on the Big Island, HI, and Seancy grew up in Mammoth Lakes, CA. But where we met in San Diego is our home base. It’s been a perfect environment that’s helped influence our laidback, Aloha-spirit style.

How do you describe your musical style? 

You can call it futuristic reggae hip hop or dub hop. It combines hip hop and reggae foundations with bass music production, memorable hooks, and the fusion of world genres. We basically took our love of underground hip hop and emceeing and blended it with good vibes and traditional reggae music, and then brought it into the modern times with bass-heavy production, a little EDM flair, and lots of eclectic elements. It’s really just a representation of what we like. Dope beats, catchy rhymes, and good vibes.

What first inspired you to get into music? 

What first inspired Cizflow to get into music was writing poems in middle school for girls he crushed on. As he got older, he would turn those poems into songs and then started to focus his craft on current events, philosophies, and storytelling. Listening to artists like Bone, Tech N9ne, E-40, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, and OutKast has helped develop the double-time delivery Cizflow is well known for. 

Seancy was inspired originally to learn to create music by electronic acts like the Crystal Method but then in high school, he fell in love with underground hip hop, like Atmosphere and Jurassic 5, and the art of taking something old and making it new and fresh again. He would make beats to freestyle to by resampling stuff like the Beatles and James Brown. Then with the evolution of genres like EDM, dubstep, and bass music, he was inspired to bring all those modern elements into one sound for the Flowmads project. 

Is there an artist or person who has inspired you most? 

We both always found Atmosphere to be groundbreaking and so authentic. A true master of their craft—Slug with impeccable swag and style and Ant with unmistakable beats.

What’s your favorite piece of music production gear or software? 

Ableton Live has really been a linchpin for our production. With Seancy‘s background in sample digging and using eclectic sounds from other music, the functionality of Ableton just as an overall canvas for creating sample-based music but also as an incredible sound design platform has really leveled up the Flowmads’ sound.

What’s your favorite part of the music production process? 

Our favorite part is that early-on stage when you’ve just created a beat that’s not finished, but it sounds so good that you can’t help but start writing lyrics and singing out hooks and rhymes. When you just get that spark of inspiration, that’s the best feeling. It’s just like when a fan hears a new song for the first time that really strikes that perfect vibe. The first time you hear it, it’s really exciting. For us, the process of discovering those new songs right from the very beginning is often the most fun.

What has been your favorite live performance to date?

We’ve had some pretty cool performance locations and amazing crowds. Two of our favorites were playing right on the beach in Mission Beach at Beach House with KBong, Johnny Cosmic, and Kyle Smith. And another time we got to play in the desert outside Palmdale and rap our whole set standing on top of six Hennessy, 21-inch subwoofers. That was pretty insane.

But our favorite recent show was at the Music Box in San Diego with Through The Roots and Surfer Girl. The hometown crowd was so clutch, the vibe was right, and all the bands crushed it. 

Any future projects coming we should know about? 

For sure! Right now the plan is to focus on catalog. We have a bunch of heaters on deck that we’re finishing up. “Bingo Bango” is just the first of many to come, a bunch with different styles we’ve been exploring. We’ve got some really good surprise features too, so you guys gotta stay tuned.

Check out Flowmads’ music on BPM Supreme’s White Label and read more interviews here.

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