BrokinPaper, the creative alias of New York City artist Harrison Lee, blends dark electronic rhythms, cinematic sound design, and club-ready energy into a distinctly visual world. Working independently through DIY releases and self-produced Brooklyn shows, he has built more than 200,000 monthly listeners while earning a Timbaland co-sign, a Sony-backed catalog deal, major fashion and television sync placements, and an upcoming HypnoVizion DJ mix. In this interview with 6AM, BrokinPaper discusses his latest release, his evolving sound, the visual world behind his music, and what is coming next.

 

Hi BrokinPaper! Thanks for talking with 6AM. How are you?

Doing great. Thanks for having me! 

 

Your track “Antidote Remix” dropped just recently and there is a lot happening around the release. A new single, a video connecting New York City and Minsk, and a larger album coming in September. When someone lands on BrokinPaper for the first time right now, what part of your world do you hope they pick up on first? 

The music I’m working on right now is much more intentional, it’s designed to translate directly into a club setting and feel like stepping into one of my live sets. Distortion, grit, and high energy; the goal is to build tracks that hit hard but still have movement and tension in them.

Sonically, it sits somewhere between electro, breakbeats, bass, and techno, but what matters more is the feeling, it should feel a bit raw and unpredictable. I want people who land on BrokinPaper for the first time to immediately feel that momentum, but also recognize that there’s a consistency that you can hear in my previous works.

Even as things evolve, I’m still staying true to the core of my sound, just pushing it further and shaping it more deliberately now.

 

“Antidote Remix” began as Jenasi’s original track before you rebuilt it through your own lens. What was the first part of the original that grabbed you, and what made you feel there was room to take it somewhere new?

Jenasi actually reached out to me after finishing the original and asked if I’d be interested in doing a remix. From the start, I felt like there was room to take it in a different direction, which is usually what I look for when I approach a remix.

One of the first ideas that stood out to me was pushing the tempo. The original sits in a more midtempo space, and I saw an opportunity to shift it into something faster and more driven. Also, considering Jenasi has released a lot of electro, and I’ve put out more midtempo material, it felt natural to flip that dynamic a bit, taking his track into an electro direction through my own lens.

As mentioned earlier, alongside the release, you put together an official music video that combines footage of you in New York City with footage of Jenasi in Minsk. For someone watching without knowing the backstory, what did you want those two places to reveal about how this track came together? What did you want people to notice about the relationship between those two worlds?

The idea behind the video was to show two very different environments that are still connected through the same track. New York is instantly recognizable, there’s a certain image and energy people already associate with it. Minsk, on the other hand, is less visible globally, even though there’s a strong and deeply rooted electro scene there.

I wanted that contrast to be part of the story. Not just visually, but culturally, highlighting a place that isn’t always in the spotlight, while showing that the same sound and energy exists there just as strongly. The track becomes a kind of bridge between those two worlds.

Even without knowing the backstory, I’d want people to notice that sense of distance and connection at the same time, two separate scenes, two different contexts, but moving with the same intensity. In a way, it reflects the collaboration itself: different backgrounds coming together and meeting in a shared space through the music.

 

Since this is the second single from your upcoming album, what does “Antidote Remix” reveal about the bigger project without giving too much away?

“Antidote Remix” gives a glimpse into the energy and direction of my upcoming album “FUNCTION OVER FORM”; it leans into the more driving, club-focused side of what I’ve been working on, faster tempos, sharper textures, and a more deliberate sense of movement.

But at the same time, it’s only one angle of the album. The broader project explores that same intention and intensity in different ways, sometimes more restrained, sometimes more expansive. So while this track captures the raw, immediate side of it, there’s a wider range of moods, structures, and genres across the full release.

 

From DIY releases and self produced shows in Brooklyn to sync placements, fashion campaigns, Gucci invites, and now a full album on the way, it seems like BrokinPaper is flourishing on many different levels. At what point did you start to feel like BrokinPaper was growing beyond just a music project and becoming something with its own bigger world around it?

I don’t feel that there was a single, clear moment where it flipped, it was a gradual shift in how things started connecting. In the beginning, it was very self-contained, just focused on making music and putting on shows. But over time, different opportunities started coming in from outside of that world, fashion, sync, collaborations, and they didn’t feel separate from the project, they just felt like extensions of it.

I think that’s when it started to feel bigger than just music. Not because of the scale, but because it became more of a full environment with its own identity that could exist across different spaces.

At this point, I see BrokinPaper as a framework. The music is still at the core, but everything around it, visuals, shows, collaborations, feeds into the same world.

Thanks so much for taking the time. Is there anything else you would like to add?

Thanks for having me! I’d just say that this release—and the album coming next—is the next step in how I’m shaping the sound and the world around it. There’s a lot more coming soon, and I’m excited for people to experience it.

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