Steller & Zingara Drop New 3-Track EP ‘Is This Real?’

Steller and Zingara ’s new collaborative EP Is This Real? isn’t just a meeting of two bass music powerhouses — it’s a slow-burn journey through the liminal space between life, death, and whatever comes after. Across three tracks, the duo stitch together weighty sub-bass, meditative ambience, and cosmic storytelling into something that’s both festival-sized and deeply personal.

The project’s concept has roots in a moment of profound change. Zingara began the process while her great-grandmother was passing, and the music became a shared space for exploring reincarnation, collective memory, and the strange elasticity of time. That depth of intention is baked into the EP’s pacing and structure.

The title track sets the tone with its spoken-word intro — a conversation about perceiving one’s life from outside the body — before pulling the floor out with a cavernous drop drenched in reverb. “Better Believe It” follows as a lighter exhale, sliding in with loose sax riffs and a groove that keeps the body moving while letting the mind wander. The closer, a VIP of their earlier track “Find It In Your Mind,” is a warped reflection of the original — familiar elements distorted into something more surreal, like a memory replayed through a dream.

There’s a cohesion here that feels intentional beyond just production style. The way the track titles form a thematic sentence, the balance between introspection and physical impact, the moments where space is allowed to breathe — it all suggests that Is This Real? is more than a collab for the sake of cross-promotion. It’s a concept EP with its own gravitational pull.

With both artists booked solid for the rest of the year — from Bass Canyon to Goldrush to GRiZ’s new Seven Stars Festival — these tracks are almost guaranteed to evolve in a live setting. But even in headphones, the EP feels like a portal: three snapshots of bass music as a spiritual exercise, wrapped in the grit and weight fans expect from both Steller and Zingara.