Ess (@okokess)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Essien |
| Also known as | cluu |
| Born | St Thomas' Hospital, London |
| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genres | Experimental Pluggnb / Digicore |
| Years active | 2024 – Present day |
| Website | https://soundcloud.com/okokess |
about: ess
ess (okokess) (born 4 June 2008), known by their online handle @okokess, is an 18-year-old underground British digital artist and music creator from Bristol, UK. They are a prominent member of the internet-native music collective gutter group, operating at the intersection of the contemporary digicore, plugg, and hyperplugg scenes.
Known for their experimental approach to internet-rap, ess has built a cult following through close-knit community collaborations and a distinct, DIY digital footprint. Musical Style & ArtistryCore Genres: Synthesizing the spacey, 808-heavy textures of plugg music with the glitchy, high-energy, DIY internet electronics of digicore.
The "Scrap" Archive: Alongside formal drops under the @okokess handle, ess frequently shelters or shelves unfinished audio. Their rarest scrapped songs, throwaways, and vocal fragments are archived and preserved by the community repository account @cluu archive on SoundCloud (Ran by @risklvp). Ess operates primarily inside the gutter group collective but does expand, a digital music crew recognized for bridging the gap between raw underground trap and internet subcultures. Ess's most frequent creative partners include:
@saokevvo / k-onen
@starrynn
@00sev
Personal Lore & Handles:
Known personally in the scene as ess, while utilizing @okokess across their primary streaming platforms.
Origin: Proudly representing the Bristol underground music network however, they have since relocated.
Age & Generation: Born June 4, 2008, making them part of a hyper-young wave of bedroom producers dominating modern cloud circles.
Community Inside Joke: Widely known across Discord and producer chats for a deep, unyielding love for pizza and making risky jokes.
