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Darby Bouey, professionally known as **downtime**, is a 21 year old producer from Washington State. He is a member of the Icy Rotten collective.

## Early Life

Bouey was born in Washington State and he grew up in Spokane.

## History

Bouey posted his first track to SoundCloud, "rellik", on September 28, 2014. The track sampled 0-100 by Drake. Soon after, he posted a second track, "aphotic", on October 26, 2014. He would also post various remixes of pop songs (which have since been deleted). He would then continue to release beats almost every month, along the line opting to use varying colors as cover arts.

He gained his first bit of serious attention with the release of his track "lovell 2"on October 7, 2015*,* which was a remix of Night Lovell's track "Dark Light". Swerzie would end up using the instrumental for his track "Give Up".

On September 25, 2016, Bouey would release "noir". Many artists would remix the track, including Swerzie, who released his remix January 19, 2017.

Throughout 2017 Bouey would continue to post music to his SoundCloud page, slowly but surely gaining a steady fanbase.

On April 15, 2017, he released "the end" with Swerzie. This would be the first Swerzie featured track he would post on his SoundCloud page.

On June 11, 2017, Bouey graduated from high school.
On September 9, 2017, he collaborated with Swerzie on his EP *Ice The World,* which featured exclusive production from him. This release would cement the pair of one of the hardest hitting duos in the underground.

On October 11, 2017, he would collaborate with bbno$ and Yung Gravy for their song "Rotisserie" which would rack in over 70 million streams on Spotify and SoundCloud combined.

On June 9, 2018, he would produce "Hardbody" on Zotiyac's debut solo mixtape, *Blackball.* The same year, he would do various performances with Swerzie and "UZIROTTEN" in Chattanooga and other cities.

On October 27, 2018, he would produce 3 tracks on Swerzie's EP *ROTTENBOY**.*

   On May 31, 2019, he would receive his biggest producer credit with Yung Gravy's "Whip A Tesla" again featuring bbno$. The song has 76 million streams on Spotify and SoundCloud combined.

On August 29, 2020, he would release a collab EP with Swerzie, *FTW*. The project would be fairly short, with only two tracks.

On September 4, 2020, *NBA 2K21* was released, and Florida rapper Anonymuz's song "No Threat", which was produced by downtime, was added into the game's soundtrack. This is Bouey's biggest achievement to date.

On November 13, 2020, he would produce two tracks on Swerzie's EP *ROTDAY THE 13TH**.*

On January 8, 2021, he signed with Ultra Music, a record label for producers that includes the likes of Steve Aoki, Calvin Harris, Carnage.

On September 22, 2021, underground rappers Kankan and Yeat would release "Not Da Same", produced by ninetyniiine and downtime. On October 5 of the same year, Kankan would release his album *##RR,* which featured the aforementioned "Not Da Same" and "Fuk Tha Clout", also produced by ninetyniiine and downtime.

## Style

Bouey's style of producing is mainly trap based, characterized by harsh 808s. He makes all of his melodies himself. He produces using Ableton, which is widely considered to be a difficult software to learn.

Stream his music on all platforms: Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music

## Trivia

* downtime's producer tag is a sample of Majora's laugh from *The Legend Of Zelda,* which Bouey is a self professed fan of.
* According to Swerzie, he essentially "kidnapped" Bouey the first time they met, as he was only supposed to be in Atlanta for a few days, but Bouey ended up staying for almost two weeks.
* downtime is the third most followed on SoundCloud out of Icy Rotten. (24k+ followers)
* Similarly to Swerzie, British rapper Scarlxrd would use downtime's beats for his own music, releasing over eleven tracks produced by him in the early stages of his career. Most recently, he released "NX CNTRL" on his album *Acquired Taste Vol. 1* which was produced by downtime. Unfortunately, besides the aforementioned "NX CNTRL", he was never paid for the other songs.
* downtime produced the instrumentals for *When I Die, Throw A Party* at age 16.