Channel Tres Releases New Single “Pop Pop”

Channel Tres returned today with a new single, “Pop Pop.” The track lands a couple months after “Medicine,” his rework of Crystal Waters’ “100% Pure Love,” and it keeps the energy locked on the floor. Where that earlier single leaned on a familiar vocal hook, “Pop Pop” rides its own pulse.

Tres co-wrote and co-produced the song with Nick Sylvester, his regular studio partner. The result is a house track that struts rather than sprints. The bassline does most of the talking, a fat, swaggering groove that walks with a ridiculous level of confidence. Tres lays his deadpan delivery over it, unhurried and cool. There is no obvious sample to anchor it, just a club-minded feel that pulls from early-’90s house without direct reference. It is a lean, unfussy offering from the Compton artist, and it fits easily into his catalog of