GRIPSKI is a Canadian beatmaker and sound sculptor whose productions live somewhere between the dust of old records and the unpredictability of modular noise. Based in London, Ontario, he carves out gritty, off-grid grooves using a deeply personal mix of Elektron machines, Moog synths, stompboxes, tape decks, and samplers like the SP-404MKII — all patched, rerouted, and abused in the name of vibe.

His process is tactile, instinctual, and rooted in the imperfect. Drums get mangled through pedals. Loops get bounced to tape and back. Edits flip rare grooves and lost audio scraps into something raw and fully reimagined. GRIPSKI’s beats aren’t about polish — they’re about presence.

A member of Albino ZEBRAH, GRIPSKI’s creative core is grounded in freestyle and juxtaposition — building connections between sounds that shouldn’t work together, but do. The crew’s name nods to a lyric from Awol One: “...makes no sense like an albino zebra…” That contradiction is the point — creating instinctively, embracing tension, and letting the music find its own weird logic.

He contributes regularly to Animal Street Records, pushing a sound that blurs the line between beat tape, live session, and abstract art. GRIPSKI makes music you can feel under your fingernails.