Prayer Handz and Drip Sync Turn Years of Friendship Into Bass House Heater “Move”

Prayer Handz and Chris Idle have slept in cars to make tour dates work, driven across Canada with busted AC and played sketchy venues for crowds of five. So watching their new collaboration “Move” hit in front of much bigger crowds this summer carries a little more weight.

Released on September 11, 2026, the Bass House track reconnects two longtime friends who entered the scene around the same time and have worked together under different projects for years. This time, there is another milestone attached: “Move” is Chris Idle’s first official release under his new alias, Drip Sync.

The reason they made it was simple. Both felt Bass House had been lacking the kind of creativity they wanted to hear, so they set out to make something crowds could genuinely dance to while still delivering enough low-end pressure for a proper bass face. As Prayer Handz jokes, if somebody in the crowd looks like someone just let one rip, mission accomplished.

That mix of humor, movement and heavier bass makes sense when you look at Prayer Handz’s background. Before electronic music, he was touring and releasing music as a Hip Hop artist, while also writing lyrics for other vocalists. The real turning point came at the Canadian festival Boonstock, where he unexpectedly walked into a set from Grandtheft and had his perspective completely changed.

Seeing that performance made him realize the skills he had developed through Hip Hop could translate into bass music instead of being left behind. He spent the next few years learning everything he could about rave culture and production, eventually building a sound he now describes in three words: bouncy, stanky and fun.

A second major turning point came at Shambhala. Friends convinced him to attend after Boonstock, and the festival quickly became the place that cemented his desire to make electronic music a career. For years, the Pagoda Stage sat at the top of his vision board. Getting to perform there over the last few years turned one of his biggest goals into reality. Lost Lands and Electric Forest are now next on the bucket list.

Prayer Handz’s influences reflect the same refusal to stay inside one box. Skrillex, Fred again.., MPH, Taiki Nulight, Habstrakt, Grandtheft and Zeds Dead are among the artists he looks up to, especially those who can move between styles while still sounding unmistakably like themselves. He wants to do the same, while also becoming a go-to artist for people who grew up as Hip Hop heads and eventually found their way into EDM.

Years spent rapping, writing, throwing events and DJing open-format club nights also shaped the way he performs now. Crowd interaction is a major part of the Prayer Handz live experience, whether that means shouting lyrics together, jumping on the booth, ridiculous hand motions, dancing, pulling bass faces or pointing out the people giving the most energy back.

Offstage, that energy goes somewhere else. Prayer Handz is a serious sports fan who sums it up as “ball is life.” Before making music full time, he worked as a personal trainer, and fitness is still a major part of his routine. Living near the Rocky Mountains in Calgary also makes hiking one of his favorite escapes. His playlists remain split between electronic favorites like Skrillex, MPH, Taiki Nulight, Zero UK and Gentlemen’s Club and the Hip Hop he grew up with, including Clipse’s Let God Sort ’Em Out.

The friendship behind “Move” has also produced some less serious moments. Prayer Handz and Drip Sync were both big fans of the Jack Ü era and thought it was hilarious when Skrillex and Diplo posed together romantically for a magazine shoot. Since the two were playing so many shows together at the time, they started calling themselves “Fack Ü” and recreating the pose whenever festival photographers were around.

“Move” is only the beginning of this new chapter together. Prayer Handz says it is the first of several upcoming collaborations with Drip Sync, and he hopes the release helps introduce his longtime friend’s new project to a much wider audience.

There is also a major solo chapter coming. Shortly after “Move,” Prayer Handz plans to release his debut album, “Big Things Start in Little Rooms,” later this fall, followed by a major cross-Canada tour run. Breaking further into the U.S. market and touring the States is one of his next major goals.

Through all of it, he keeps coming back to the people already supporting him. Prayer Handz may not feel like he has the biggest numbers yet, but he describes his fan base as incredibly loyal and loud, something he values far more than statistics alone.

The mentality behind the next stage of his career comes partly from one of his biggest idols, Kobe Bryant. Prayer Handz approaches developing his craft the way Bryant approached basketball: keep sharpening the skills, keep working and keep showing up. In his words, it is “Mamba Mentality.”

After sleeping in cars, playing to five people and figuring out how to make the next show happen, “Move” arrives at a very different point in the journey. Now it leads into a debut album, a cross-Canada tour, ambitions in the U.S. and more music with Drip Sync already on the way.

For Prayer Handz, that makes the moment feel less like an overnight breakthrough and more like the result of years spent refusing to stop.