Recess is the debut studio album by American electronic music producer Skrillex, released on March 14, 2014 by Big Beat Records and Atlantic Records. On March 7, 2014, Skrillex took part in an "ask me anything" online Reddit post. To coincide with this question-and-answer session, his website was changed to redirect to a page featuring a talking alien face, based on the Apple emoji. The face played short samples from album tracks when you clicked it. He released a mobile app, Alien Ride, on the same day which features an arcade-style objective where the spaceship has to destroy asteroids. The app displayed a countdown.When the countdown reached zero, the first song from the album was available to stream through the app. This continued in regular 30 minute intervals until the entire album was streamable for a limited time via the app. Recess is the debut studio album by American electronic music producer Skrillex, released on March 14, 2014 by Big Beat Records and Atlantic Records. On March 7, 2014, Skrillex took part in an "ask me anything" online Reddit post. To coincide with this question-and-answer session, his website was changed to redirect to a page featuring a talking alien face, based on the Apple emoji. The face played short samples from album tracks when you clicked it. He released a mobile app, Alien Ride, on the same day which features an arcade-style objective where the spaceship has to destroy asteroids. The app displayed a countdown.When the countdown reached zero, the first song from the album was available to stream through the app. This continued in regular 30 minute intervals until the entire album was streamable for a limited time via the app. false 2021-06-07 16:59:41 Recess 5.2 2014 2014-04-19 2014-04-19 47 Dubstep 112077 2200805 4f069260-e524-4270-bd48-9370fffe86c7 ae002c5d-aac6-490b-a39a-30aa9e2edf2b c2142471-c85b-4433-849c-839aafc8e3a4 /media/data/media4/Music/Skrillex/Recess/folder.jpg Skrillex Skrillex with Alvin Risk Skrillex with Chance the Rapper and The Social Experiment Skrillex with Diplo, G‐Dragon and CL Skrillex with Kid Harpoon Skrillex with Kill the Noise, Fatman Scoop and Michael Angelakos Skrillex with KillaGraham and Sam Dew Skrillex with Niki and the Dove Skrillex with The Ragga Twins Skrillex 1 1 All Is Fair in Love and Brostep 04:09 1 2 Recess 03:57 1 3 Stranger 04:50 1 4 Try It Out (Neon mix) 03:49 1 5 Coast Is Clear 04:03 1 6 Dirty Vibe 03:26 1 7 Ragga Bomb 04:19 1 8 Doompy Poomp 03:25 1 9 Fuck That 03:50 1 10 Ease My Mind 05:02 1 11 Fire Away 05:43 Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), known professionally as Skrillex, is an American DJ and music producer. Growing up in Northeast Los Angeles and Northern California, he joined the post-hardcore band From First to Last as the lead singer in 2004, and recorded two studio albums with the band (Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount [2004] and Heroine [2006]) before leaving to pursue a solo career in 2007. He began his first tour as a solo artist in late 2007. After recruiting a new band lineup, Moore joined the Alternative Press Tour to support bands such as All Time Low and the Rocket Summer, and appeared on the cover of Alternative Press' annual "100 Bands You Need to Know" issue.After releasing the Gypsyhook EP in 2009, Moore was scheduled to record his debut studio album, Bells, with producer Noah Shain. He ceased production of the album, however, and began performing under the name Skrillex, distributing the My Name Is Skrillex EP for free download on his official MySpace page. Subsequently, he released the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP in late 2010 and More Monsters and Sprites EP in mid-2011, both of which have since become moderate commercial successes. On November 30, 2011, he received five Grammy Award nominations at the 54th Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and won three: "Best Dance/Electronica Album", "Best Dance Recording", and "Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical". In December 2011, the BBC announced that he had been nominated for their Sound of 2012 poll. The same month, he was also named MTV's Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year.Skrillex has won eight Grammy Awards, more than any other electronic dance music artist. Skrillex has collaborated with Diplo and Boys Noize to form the groups Jack Ü and Dog Blood respectively. It was announced on Moore's 29th birthday, that he reunited with From First to Last and released a single named "Make War". In 2017, Skrillex produced and mixed 8, the eighth studio album by rock band Incubus. In July 2017, Skrillex released another single featuring debuting solo artist Poo Bear.