The files that came back from Miami were a total mess, with missing stems and distorted vocal takes. Lean was then and is now under what he says is “heavy medication.”īack in Sweden, Lean’s other main producer, Yung Gud, set about finishing the album. For about two months, Lean’s father tended to him while he recovered in the countryside, in relative isolation, before moving back into his parents’ place in Stockholm.
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Lean says he didn’t recognize him at first, but they returned to Sweden together. “He constantly spoke enthusiastically about how culture was at a tipping point, that we can do whatever we want musically and in business, because we were living in the cultural Wild West.”Īt the same time, Lean’s father was flying to visit Lean in the hospital, where he stayed for four days. “He was the most high-minded, cosmic person anyone ever met,” said d’Eon, once signed to Hippos in Tanks.
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Heartfelt tributes posted online remembered his good taste and generosity - how he’d keep places just so acquaintances could stay in them, and scramble to encourage his artists’ most out-there ideas, like a dubstep magic show. Strangers rushed in and managed to help Hunter from the flaming wreck, but Barron was stuck.
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According to Lean and Steven Machat, Barron had taken Xanax. The car twisted into the intersection, and the engine caught on fire. According to the police report, he was driving about 60 miles per hour when he veered out of his lane and ran into a traffic signal post. named Hunter Karman in the passenger seat. It was a typically pleasant Miami spring night, with a clear sky and a comfortable temperature of 75 degrees, when Barron set out, with a 21-year-old producer from L.A. After midnight, in the early hours of April 8, Lean says he managed to call Barron and beg him to bring him his files. In the hospital, Lean became paranoid that he’d been separated from his hard drive. He was bleeding from the debris when Bladee called 911. He started to destroy the condo, throwing furniture and breaking glass. High and overcome by feelings of connectedness, Lean became detached from reality. Lean’s nose started bleeding, and he checked in on Snapchat his girlfriend, back home in Sweden, happened to have a nosebleed, too. “Why isn't he just going home? We've been away for so long, what is he going to do here now? It seems unnecessary for him to stay.”Īt some point on April 7, 2015, Barron left Bladee and Lean in the condo. “I remember I felt like, Why is he going to stay?” Sherman says now. But Lean and Bladee stayed behind, with plans to play some shows then head up to New York.
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And there was Emilio Fagone, Lean’s 29-year-old primary manager, who’s been working with him since he was 16.Īfter the recording sessions wrapped in Miami, Sherman and Emilio flew back to Sweden. There was Yung Sherman, then 20, one of his longtime producers and the sonic architect of Warlord, and Bladee, 21, a frequent collaborator who sings background vocals at Lean’s live shows. Senate.Ī number of fellow Swedes accompanied Lean on the trip. In Miami, Barron had an apartment where Lean could crash, and connections: his father, Steven Machat, is an entertainment lawyer whose clients have included Ozzy Osbourne and Bobby Brown. Known for his belief in the crossover potential of thought-provoking acts, he and his label Hippos in Tanks were said to have “ushered avant-garde music into the 21st century.” Though he didn’t release any of Lean’s records, he helped Lean start a label of his own, Sky Team. Barron was a beloved and respected figure in the North American experimental music scene. manager, Barron Machat, had helped arrange. Lean had ended up in Miami after a stateside tour that his 27-year-old U.S.