Lost Kings

Los Angeles-based EDM duo Lost Kings fuse woozy grooves, house touches, and broader electronic approaches into a hybrid that blends pop accessibility with high-energy party momentum. Initial notice arrived through their remixes of songs by established acts such as Halsey and Imagine Dragons, after which the pair joined RCA’s Disruptor Records imprint and began issuing original material across EPs, among them 2019’s Lost Angeles and 2021’s It’s Not You, It’s Me. Additional singles followed, among them the 2024 track “Here for You” featuring Kheela.

DJs Robert Abisi and Nick Shanholtz connected through a mutual passion for electronic music culture and their parallel moves to Los Angeles from the East Coast. The duo launched Lost Kings in 2014, prioritizing remixes over originals at the outset. Unofficial reworkings of material by Disclosure, the Killers, and Dirty South quickly generated significant interest, leading to a management agreement. Their first release, The Bad EP, appeared in 2015, with The Good EP arriving the following year. Growing demand for official remixes soon materialized, including a 2015 treatment of Tori Kelly’s hit “Should’ve Been Us” and a 2016 official version of Rihanna’s “Work.”

Beyond their remix output, Lost Kings achieved chart placements with original tracks such as “Phone Down” featuring Emily Warren and early-2017’s “Quit You” with Tinashé. Subsequent releases included “Look at Us Now” featuring Ally Brooke and A$AP Ferg, plus “First Love” with Sabrina Carpenter. In 2018 they issued “When We Were Young” featuring Norma Jean Martine and “Drunk as Hell” featuring Jesper Jenset, both later collected on the Paper Crowns EP in early 2019. That same year also brought the second EP, Lost Angeles. Standalone releases continued in 2020 with “Hurt” featuring DeathByRomy, “Oops (I’m Sorry)” with Ty Dolla $ign and Gashi, and “Mountains” featuring Masn. The 2021 EP It’s Not You, It’s Me broadened their palette with emo-pop melodic elements and guitar-loop foundations, incorporating appearances from MOD SUN, Ty Dolla $ign, Jordan Shaw, and additional guests. The group returned in 2022 with “Under the Influence,” again featuring Jordan Shaw, followed by further singles that year such as “Wonderlust” and the Slush Puppy collaboration “I Do.” Later output comprised 2023’s “Dreams” featuring Frawley and, in 2024, “Remind Me” with Hilda alongside the aforementioned “Here for You” with Kheela.