Smelliott wants to change how you rave. Stay Lit is the first real evidence.

Elliot Sirota has been making music under the name Smelliott since he was about 16. He's 19 now, based in London, and his stated mission is to produce 200,000 new sounds by 2030. 1 Whether or not he hits that number, Stay Lit — nine tracks, roughly 17 minutes, dropped yesterday as a name-your-price download — is the most focused thing he's put out so far. 2

His earlier three-track EP Aspirational Future (October 2025) leaned into jungle and drum & bass. Stay Lit keeps those rhythmic foundations but pushes into harsh noise and IDM territory in a way that's less genre tourist, more genuine collision. 3 The pitch Sirota has given for it: "I wanted to inject the passion and rawness of noise into the predictable infectious nature of EDM." 3 That's a cleaner description than most debut EPs get.

The track list does a lot of work communicating the vibe before you press play. Opener "dude, i gotta stay lit AF" (3:20) is the lead single — a music video dropped April 30. 2 Then the EP punches in micro-bursts: "exclamationmark fullstop fullstop" clocks at 0:15, "i luv noise music" at 0:10. These aren't filler; they're the kind of compression that makes you think of hardcore seven-inches more than EDM albums. 2 Track six, "Lit AF," is the second single at 3:04, preceded by a May 22 video. 2 The whole thing closes on "brian eno is my father" — 4:46, the longest track, and by the title alone you can guess it goes ambient. 2

Critic Alan Rider at Outsideleft called out Ramleh as a reference point — one of UK harsh noise's foundational acts — which places Sirota in a real lineage rather than just the internet-genre-blender zone. 1 The Bandcamp tags he's using — edm, idm, noise, dubstep, trap beats, techno — are honest about the collision he's going for. 2 His listed influences skew hyperpop-adjacent (Ninajirachi, Underscores, Jane Remover), which explains the dancefloor instinct underneath the abrasion. 3

One supporter on Bandcamp right now. No comments. This is a debut proper EP getting its first press coverage this week — the underground infrastructure hasn't found it yet. At 19, three years in, and already running "some cold cut, well earned, straight harsh noise for the purists" alongside his club-ready singles, 3 Sirota isn't waiting for permission from either the noise crowd or the dance floor. That combination is rarer than the genre tags suggest.

Bandcamp (name your price — FLAC/MP3): Stay Lit | Smelliott