A. G. Cook brought out Danny Brown during his Coachella set. Check out the moment below.

The hyperpop producer performed at Coachella last night (April 11), playing hits from his 2024 solo album ‘Britpop‘, as well as longtime collaborator Charli XCX‘s cultural phenomenon LP ‘Brat‘ and its subsequent remix album ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat‘.

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Midway through the set, Cook surprised fans with an appearance from Brown, who emerged from a red telephone booth onstage. The Detroit rapper first performed ‘Attak’, his 2014 collaboration with electronic producer Rustie, before remixing Charli’s cult-favourite track ‘Part 4 U’, taken from her 2020 album ‘how i’m feeling now‘.

Though it was released five years ago, the track has been enjoying newfound popularity after going viral earlier this year. Check out Brown’s take on the sleeper hit below.

Cook released his triple album ‘Britpop’ last year, and it was met with a glowing five-star review from NME. Writer Tilly Foulkes said of the record: “His talent for juxtaposing very real emotional matters with his hypnagogic sounds both pulls the feeling and the sound away from each other while keeping them bound together – grounded in the very real world, only to be twisted into something glossy and more beautiful, focused on the tiny details that make up how it feels to be a person.”

Speaking to NME ahead of ‘Britpop’s release, Cook explained his decision to divide the album into three parts:  ‘Past’, ‘Present’ and ‘Future’. “Not only is it an eyeroll nod to the ‘90s genre, but it gives a sense of different eras and the idea of Britain as a super old place that’s trying to be futuristic,” he explained. “I started to think about my headspace in 2012 and PC Music being labelled this futuristic thing, even though I’m genuinely very interested in the present.”

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“I’ve always really believed that, and I think that’s why a lot of the music that survives from that specific era is stuff that’s engaged in that way,” Cook continued. “That attitude is what I really associate with a lot of [PC] Music, rather than a sound palette like bass or sped-up vocals. It’s the tracks that are part of something cultural – at least in my mind – that have aged well.”

In other Coachella news, this year’s edition of the Californian festival will see headline performances from Lady Gaga, Post Malone, Travis Scott and Green Day. Check back here to see the latest updates.

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