NEW YORK CITY — In a music landscape oversaturated with TikTok-tailored hooks and formulaic radio-friendly beats, NYC-based producer and composer SIXFOOT 5 breaks all the rules with his audacious new album, Body Erotica—a seven-track electronic odyssey th
Carson Rammelt, the artist behind the SIXFOOT 5 moniker, is no stranger to genre-bending. Known for his work across electronic pop, film scoring, and experimental sound design, his fingerprints can be found on everything from RuPaul’s Drag Race to Broadway and Emmy-winning TV. But Body Erotica marks his first body of work released strictly under his own name—and it’s a declaration.
“I named it Body Erotica because it’s my first full body of electronica work,” he explains. “And it’s very erotic. I combined electronica and erotic—and then you get erotica.”
That intersection of sexuality and sonic exploration pulses through every layer of the project. From the heavy, glitched-out beats to the textured breathing samples (recorded on his iPhone while house-sitting in Jacksonville), the album radiates tension and release. Tracks like Push It and Oxytocin are as much about emotional exposure as they are about sound design. “Push It” in particular carries a primal energy, rooted in breath and distortion. “I sampled my own breathing and used it as percussion,” he shares. “It fed into the subconscious, reminding you that this is still very sexually driven.”
The album's soundscape is intentionally polarizing. “I always felt like people were going to either really connect to it or detest it,” he says. “And both reactions are good. I created it to provoke.” So far, Body Erotica has done exactly that. Electronic music magazine MDM gave it a 10/10 rating, while another outlet dismissed it as “abrasive noise.” For SIXFOOT 5, that tension is the point.
Behind the boldness is also vulnerability. The project was born during a period of personal and professional frustration. “I was coming out of a four-month producer’s block. I had projects shelved by record labels. I was fed up,” he admits. “By January, I just said, ‘F*ck this. I’m going to do what I want.’” One drone sound became the catalyst. “It was like something woke up inside me,” he says. “I don’t remember how I did half of it—it felt divine.”
The result is a deeply physical, emotionally charged listening experience. “I want it to be played around 3 or 4 AM, in a club, in the back rooms, somewhere dark,” he laughs. “It’s music that enhances the moment. I had the idea of a sexual climax in mind—intimacy with a stranger, the tension, the build, the release.”
But don’t mistake Body Erotica for escapism alone. It’s also a rebellion—a challenge to pop conventions and industry expectations. “I’m sick of these two-minute-and-forty-five-second songs made for TikTok. I wanted to lean into imperfection. I made this album on instinct.”
With its hypnotic sound design and fearless eroticism, Body Erotica doesn’t ask for approval—it dares you to feel. And as SIXFOOT 5 continues to lean into that shadow side, more is coming. His next EP, titled Good Boy, drops this June for Pride Month, continuing his exploration of queer sensuality with tracks like “Good Boy” and “Don’t Stop.”
For anyone about to hit play on Body Erotica, SIXFOOT 5 has one request: “Dive in and investigate it.”
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