Red Dot
Red Dot standing at the top of a cyan-lit marble staircase at night

Red Dot

Bay Area underground rap. Memphis grit, cloud-rap haze, 808s that roar.

San Francisco Bay AreaDark trap / cloud rap / MemphisIndependent
Booking Listen Bogdan Gherghe, management & booking

Live

Chaos, then quiet, then chaos

TBC Live footage · Brick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco / 17-20 Warehouse, Los Angeles

A Red Dot set swings between all-out energy and introspection. The intros pull the room into the mood, and the drops throw it in deep. Some songs get the floor moving; others get people listening hard to the words.

Red Dot performs over playback, with his manager on stage as DJ and hype man. The team brings its own vocal chain and playback rig, so all a festival stage needs to provide is a PA.

The control you have over the crowd was perfect. You knew how to keep the energy at a steady pace, you knew exactly when to pull things up and pull them back in a set and how to perform. You’re definitely the best opener I’ve seen on the tour.

Sinizter, on tour with HAARPER & SXMPRA, after the tour finale in San Francisco

About

Red Dot is a rapper from the San Francisco Bay Area who also produces some of his own beats. His music draws on cloud rap, dark trap and Memphis rap: gritty and vicious on one track, hypnotic and ethereal on the next. His newest songs pair autotuned melodies with distorted, experimental 808s. Fully independent since 2022, he has passed 7 million Spotify streams and puts out around 22 songs a year.

Goth, punk and metal shape his image as much as his sound, cut with a high-fashion streetwear edge. His shoots and videos aim for a look that is mysterious yet recognizable, and that matches what you hear. Lyrically he deals in emotional trauma, unhinged thought and past vices, offered as a direct, vulnerable line to the listener.

His audience has grown fastest in Europe. Germany is his second-biggest country, Frankfurt and Berlin are his top two cities worldwide, and he has recorded with German artists Danny Deadweight (“Sacrificial Business”) and Maskdown (“MEMENTO MORI”). His current EP rollout wraps in December 2026, with a new album and EP to follow in 2027.

Portrait of Red Dot in a leather jacket against night-time city towers
Photo: Delph

Listen

Start here

Track 1

Catalyst

Title track, Catalyst EP (2025)

Play on Spotify Track 2

Out Tha Snow

Single (2024), #1 in his Spotify 'Popular' list

Play on Spotify Track 3

6thSense

Title track, 6thSense (2026)

Play on Spotify
Spotify Apple Music Instagram Music video: in edit

Audience

The numbers

7M+ Spotify streams, all independent
59.3K Spotify monthly listeners
200K+ Apple Music plays
8K Instagram followers

As of October 2026. Figures from Spotify for Artists and Apple Music for Artists.

About 40% of his listeners are in Europe. Germany is his #2 country, and Frankfurt and Berlin are his top two cities worldwide, ahead of every US city.

Top European countries, monthly listeners

Germany 7,716 France 2,034 Poland 1,884 Ukraine 1,686 UK 1,166 Netherlands 1,145 Finland 988 Czechia 914

Outside Germany, top European cities

Warsaw 543 Kyiv 468 Prague 432 Helsinki 360 Amsterdam 343 London 274

Top German cities, monthly listeners

Spotify monthly listeners by German city
Frankfurt 855
Berlin 780
Hamburg 530
Stuttgart 510+
Munich 490+
Leipzig 344
Nuremberg 324
Cologne 285
Düsseldorf 268
Hanover 249

Spotify for Artists, last 28 days, October 2026. Frankfurt and Berlin highlighted: #1 and #2 worldwide.

Shows

Recent stages

  • crybabyclub 17-20 Warehouse · Los Angeles, CA
  • Opened for HAARPER Tour finale, with SXMPRA supporting · Brick & Mortar Music Hall · San Francisco, CA · ~350 capacity

For bookers

The set

Set length
20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, built to the slot
On stage
Red Dot (vocals) over playback, with a DJ / hype man
Party
3 people. Only the artist flies in, from San Francisco; the rest of the team, including videographer Delph, travels by road from within the EU
Passport
US, valid through 2029
Available
European festival dates, summer 2027
Language
English

Next

On the way

  • Now – Dec 18

    ThruMyEyes EP

    Singles “drowning”, “ItAllFadesWithTime”, “LedByTheStars” and “Coffin Dreams”. Final release December 18, 2026.

  • 2027 – April 30

    New album

    Rollout completes April 30, 2027. Featuring “Mind's Eye”. Title to be announced.

  • 2027

    New EP

    Title to be announced.

Press photos

Photos

Red Dot full-length on a lit staircase
Delph
Red Dot crouched low in a wide stance at the foot of glowing steps
Delph
Red Dot in a leather jacket on a city street at night
Delph
Red Dot framed by a neon line in a dark stairwell
Delph
Red Dot at the centre of a cyan-lit staircase looking down
Delph
Red Dot in sunglasses and cap, close, low angle
Delph
Red Dot seated sideways on lit marble steps
Delph
Portrait of Red Dot in a leather jacket against night-time city towers
Delph

Download

Single photos (Delph, credit required)

Coming: full-resolution originals and logo files. Live photos (credits: sufferplenty, xneyon, Stephen Brownlee Photography).

Tech

What we bring

Vocal chain, interface and playback all travel with the act. Line check and soundcheck run by the act’s own engineer.

  1. Shure SM58
  2. SPL Frontliner (optional)
  3. MT48 interface
  4. Playback laptop
  5. House PA

Needs

What the stage provides

PA
Main PA and house engineer
Inputs
TBC Stereo pre-mix, or split vocal + stereo playback
Monitors
TBC Wedges or IEM
FOH
TBC Who mixes FOH during the set
Stage
Table for the playback rig, mains power at the DJ position

Booking & management

Bogdan Gherghe

Manager, FOH engineer and DJ for Red Dot. Based in Romania, routing anywhere in Europe by road.

Inbox not live yet