Conro

Canadian EDM DJ Conro crafts elaborate, colorful dance-pop tracks whose textures quietly reflect his earlier immersion in folk, rock, and classical traditions. After concentrating on electro-house productions at the outset, he pivoted toward song-oriented material near the middle of the decade and landed radio singles that registered on Billboard charts from the EPs Connecting the Dots in 2017 and All Eyes on Me in 2018. His debut full-length Level Days appeared in 2020, succeeded the next year by the solo single “luv(drunk).”

Conor Patton began violin lessons at age seven and went on to perform with the Saskatoon Youth Symphony. Once he had also become proficient on piano, guitar, and drums, he joined multiple alternative rock groups before issuing two folk albums under his own name. He later turned to electro-house productions that wove in rock and disco elements. While residing in a trailer and employed as a security guard, he signed with Wolfgang Gartner’s Kindergarten imprint in late 2012 and issued the debut single “Axiom,” whose reception quickly advanced his career. In 2014 he toured alongside Bassjackers and Dyro, supported Gartner at Avalon Hollywood, and earned endorsements from artists including Porter Robinson and Knife Party.

After the follow-up “Boss,” Conro explored a more pronounced dance-pop direction on the 2015 collaboration “Bittersweet” with Dyro and vocalist Envy Monroe. He then joined the Monstercat roster, making his label debut with “On My Way Up” early that year. Further singles such as “Unique” and “City Lights,” together with remixes for the Chainsmokers and Mr. Probz, helped sharpen his pop-inflected future bass aesthetic. The five-track EP Connecting the Dots, which merged big room, future bass, and tropical house approaches, surfaced in August 2017 and featured “Close,” a track that reached the Top 20 of Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. All Eyes on Me, his second EP, followed in October 2018 and contained the charting cuts “Take Me There” and “Trippin,” while Thrill of It arrived in 2019.

Level Days, Conro’s first album, emerged in 2020. Patton handled nearly all writing, production, and performance duties himself, enlisting only Nevve as a featured vocalist on “Way Up.” He and LissA also recorded a cover of Des’ree’s “You Gotta Be.” In 2021, Dyro and Conro teamed up again for “Memory Bank,” and Conro released the solo track “luv(drunk).”