Space Laces

Space Laces Biography

Ian Slider, also known by his alias, Space Laces, is an American dubstep artist, who employs heavy usage of sound design in his tracks. He gained popularity in 2013 for his collaborations with Excision & Downlink on the Destroid project, however, he had already made a name for himself before he started Space Laces, due to releasing music on Newgrounds as cornandbeans. Under this alias, Ian uploaded many house and electro songs from 2006 up until 2013. He gained support from various Newgrounds users, with his music being used in various animations and games. Ian also composed the main menu theme for Castle Crashers Online. In 2010, Ian was getting bored of being popular on Newgrounds and wanted to go beyond being a Newgrounds musician, and to get into the electronic music industry. He coined the name "Space Laces" and released his first track, called Deep Space, on Houserecordings. After that, many small house artists at the time, including Lazy Rich and Porter Robinson gave support to Ian, helping him grow further. Ian collaborated with Figure to remix Asser's Evil. Space Laces also remixed Figure's track Torture and Lucky Date's track Ho's & Disco's, the latter of which getting an official release under Big Fish Recordings. In late 2012, Ian started the now-abandoned "shelter 庇護" project, intended to make ambient hip-hop and other songs. The last song released by shelter was Red Eyes, released in 2013. He made remixes for Kroyclub, Lazy Rich, and other house artists around 2010 - 2012. He didn't get a lot of support until being noticed by Excision in 2012, who commissioned Ian to make a remix of his track "X Rated". Ian accepted the offer and his remix was on X Rated (The Remixes) released under deadmau5's label, mau5trap Records. However, it was around this time that Ian's hard drive corrupted, losing all of his music files. In 2013, recovering from the hard drive crash, Space Laces, alongside Excision & Downlink created the Destroid project, in which Ian contributed to the tracks "Raise Your Fist", "Wasteland", "Crusaders", "Bounce", "Funk Hole", and "Get Stupid", all released on Destroid Music. He also collaborated with Trap artist Bro Safari on the track "Fang Banger". In 2014, Space Laces released 2 tracks, one on Rottun Records, and another as a free download on SoundCloud. The free track is called "Dungeons and Dragons", and it is a dirty electro song with melodic points. The one on Rottun Records is called "Digital Gansta", a dubstep song that took Ian 2 years to make and is now one of his most popular releases. In 2015, Space Laces released the free song "Say It Ain't So" on his SoundCloud, and rumors were beginning to show that Ian and Snails were collaborating. Also in early 2015, Space Laces launched his second SoundCloud account, called "the wizard of balls", which was dedicated to sharing old demos. One of these demos was a dubstep song from 2013 called "BUGBASS92" which later would be completed in 2016. He also collaborated with Excision on the track "Push It Up", which was featured on Excision's album "Codename X". In 2016, Ian released the long awaited song "Bugbass" on Never Say Die: Black Label on September 2016. Alongside that, Space Laces & Excision collaborated again on the track "Throwin' Elbows" on Excision's album "Virus", both supported by YouTube channel DubstepGutter. In 2017, Space Laces' & Snails' collaboration "Break It Down" was released in July 2017 on OWSLA, featuring Sam King on vocals. Also around that time, Virtual Riot & Getter remixed Throwin' Elbows on the Virus remix package. After that, In December 2017, Space Laces released "Cruise Control" on Never Say Die as part of NSD's Vol. 5 album. In 2018, Space Laces released 3 new tracks through a span of 3 months, Rumble (with Excision), Torque, and Kaiju. On May 28th 2018, he announced his first EP, Overdrive, to come out on Never Say Die on June 6th. On that EP were the singles Torque and Kaiju, but also four new tracks, including IVORY's remix of Cruise Control. Later, August 3rd 2018, Excision announced his Apex LP, with their new collab "1 on 1" on it, with Rumble also being in the album. At the end of 2018, Ian launched a new series of mixes on Never Say Die called "Vaultage". The first edition was released on November 20th, 2018 and features 17 unreleased tracks, including oldies like Disco Bloodbath as well as brand new songs like Teflon King. The mix also includes a collab with a producer named WATCH. And at the very end of 2018, Space Laces released his long-awaited collab called "Whiplash", which was made with Finnish producer Topi. It was released as part of the compilation Never Say Die Vol. 6. In 2019, Space Laces released his single, Phone Tap, and at the same time, Skrillex started teasing a collab with Space Laces. Also in the beginning of 2019, Ian released the remixes for the Overdrive EP, featuring SVDDEN DEATH, Gammer, Phiso, Kompany, and Rickyxsan. On September 24 2019, Vaultage 002 was released on his SoundCloud, with more old tracks like Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V VIP and Slime, as well as new tracks including collabs with Garbage Day, AVIDD, and Phiso. About a month later, D.A.W made history by being the first track featured on a Vaultage mix to get an official release. Space Laces was overall quiet in 2020, but on March 11, 2021, Ian released his third Vaultage mix. It was his longest one yet, with 21 unreleased tracks being spread over the 20-minute run time. Later that month, the first track in the mix, Dominate, also got an official release.