Crankdat Signs With Red Light Management (Exclusive)

Red Light Management’s New York office, helmed by Eric Silver, has added Crankdat to its artist roster. Silver’s roster also includes bass music acts including Subtronics, Boogie T, LEVEL UP and Zen Selekta.

Meghan Huffman also serves as a manager on the project, while Brandon Garber and Rico Colley will work as day-to-day. He is booked by The Gongaware Group’s Paul Gongaware worldwide excluding Europe and the UK, with Primary Talent’s Paul McQueen booking Crankdat in Europe and the UK.

“We’re building a whole team around Crankdat on the production, media, art, merch, touring and press sides,” Silver says. “We’re going to launch a label on the music side. Every area you can think of, we are buttoning up and getting our team in place to support him.”

With 12 headline reports submitted to Pollstar’s Boxoffice, Crankdat has sold 13,189 total tickets, grossing $428,919. He’s performed at major dance music festivals including EDC Las Vegas, Ultra Music Festival and Tomorrowland. He also currently holds a residency at Zouk in Las Vegas.

“In these last couple of months, he’s hit critical mass,” Silver says. “He’s on a rocket ship. It’s exploding. He’s headlining arena-sized rooms, his social media, merch and streaming numbers – everything is taking off. It’s a very exciting time to get involved with him. We are reconfiguring everything, it’s almost a relaunch for this new phase of his career where he’s a headliner.”

Crankdat’s upcoming touring includes a headline play at the 8,500-cap Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Oct. 10, the 6,600-cap Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Oct. 17, and the 7,000-cap DLVEC in Las Vegas on Oct. 18.

“I happened by him by chance at a festival,” Silver says. “We met in the lobby and we talked, and I was so impressed with him. He was laying out his plan of what he wanted to do and where he saw his career going. And I just filed that away. I was just like, ‘He’s sharp.’ And then I saw him play that night at the festival, and he went on and the place exploded. I had never seen him play before and was like, ‘This guy has it.’ The next morning, I ran into him again and we chatted briefly and said our goodbyes. I remember thinking how impressive he was both musically and in terms of his vision. So, when he called me, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy.’ Because if there’s anybody I’d want to work with, he’d be at the top of the list.”