03/25/2026
"On a morning this month, ZHU picks up the call from his home in Topanga, the same property that nearly burned to the ground less than 14 months earlier. His voice is measured, the same one that’s guided thousands across dance floors for more than a decade. But 2026 ZHU is a ZHU galvanized by resilience — a man who lost his studio, packed a Sprinter van, and turned survival into 14 tracks of pure movement.
His new album, BLACK MIDAS, arrives April 24. Its opening seconds drop listeners straight into a dimly lit room where a voice asks a question: “What color do you see in my future?” The answer comes in Turkish from a fortune teller, recorded during a kahve falı, or coffee reading, in Istanbul last December: “All black.”""
Check out more about ZHU and his new project as told by LA Weeklyl
On a morning this month, ZHU picks up the call from his home in Topanga, the same property that nearly burned to the ground less than 14 months earlier. His
