KL-based DJ and producer Quint is continuing to establish himself as one of the more emotionally intelligent emerging voices in Malaysia's electronic music scene with the release of "Menyebalkan" — a single that transforms a universally familiar feeling into something deeply musical.
Menyebalkan — a Malay word carrying the full weight of irritation, frustration, and the specific kind of annoyance that settles into your body before you can name it — is the sonic translation of that state. The result is a track that doesn't just describe a feeling. It recreates one.
What makes the single remarkable is the structural choice Quint made to honour that concept. The track opens in calm — deceptively so, the kind of quiet that doesn't quite settle. Then, piece by piece, layer by layer, elements begin to accumulate. A feeling builds. Pressure compounds. And just when the weight becomes almost unbearable, another wave of calm arrives at the end — not as resolution, but as release.
It is, in the most literal sense, what irritation actually feels like. The slow build. The tipping point. The exhale after.
Long before "Menyebalkan," Quint had already built a reputation as one of KL's most community-driven DJ and event curators. His self-produced events — GEMINI IX and THE JOURNEY — have drawn crowds of 200 or more, while residencies at Triptyk, Sessions, and 808 Club have given him an intuitive understanding of how music moves through a room and through people.
That experience is all over "Menyebalkan." This is not a track made for a brief or a playlist algorithm. It is made by someone who has spent years watching how music lands in real spaces, with real people, at real moments — and who chose to make something that lands in the body first, the mind second.
As a DJ who recently released the single "Cuba" alongside ASYRAF NASIR and Dr. Moja — which accumulated over a thousand plays on Spotify — Quint is moving from curation into creation without losing what made him worth watching in the first place.
"Menyebalkan" is out now and available to stream everywhere. For Quint, it signals a clear creative direction — music that doesn't explain itself, but makes you feel exactly what it set out to make you feel.
Sometimes the most honest thing an artist can do is take something uncomfortable and make it beautiful. Quint has done exactly that.
Quint is managed by HMGE Agency, Kuala Lumpur. Full profile and streaming links at hmge.org/quint.