Shy Guy (sometimes credited as Shy Beats) is a producer and engineer from Dallas, TX, currently based out of Los Angeles. His productions often utilize ghostly vocal loops and ambient textures, blending numerous regional influences, ranging from dusty break-driven boom-bap to southern crunk and trap. Past production work has been featured on Spin, Pitchfork, TheFader, Vice, Complex, XXL, HypeBeast, The Source, StereoGum, and Billboard. He was named a ‘Producer to Watch’ by Fact Mag, an influential online electronic music magazine based in the UK.

Artists he’s worked with include JUNGLEPUSSY, Le1f, Black Dave, Hue, Ian Isiah, Bodega Bamz, Fat Tony, TINK, Smoke DZA, Grande Marshall, Maxo Kream, Meechy Darko (of Flatbush Zombies), and Stalley.

Shy Guy has also composed for film and television, syncing music to Casey Neistat’s online ad campaign for Mercedes, as well as promo videos for Converse and Stussy.

As an engineer, Shy Guy mixed and mastered Joey Bada$$’ breakout mixtape 1999. Shy Guy has had a long-running musical relationship with JUNGLEPUSSY, having produced, mixed, and recorded JUNGLEPUSSY’s debut album Satisfaction Guaranteed, and subsequent follow-ups Pregnant with Success, and Jp3.

As a DJ, he has performed at events for Vfiles, Stussy, and Puma, in addition to contributing guest mixes for Know-Wave, SSENSE and All Day.

 
 
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“Much of this change begins in the beats, which are simply exquisite. The production, overseen by her longtime collaborator Shy Guy, is rich, inventive, and hypnotic, and leagues more soulful and worldly than anything he’s previously provided Junglepussy. With the help of producer Say Hey, he nimbly hops from sensual, body-rolling dub (“Ready 2 Ride”) to a Kamaiyah-like Bay Area bounce (“I’m in Love”), providing Junglepussy with the kinds of lush, endlessly interesting instrumentals that few indie rappers have access to.”

- Pitchfork