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Saso and akathedarknight come together as Planta Industrial — a project that arrived with no rulebook and no intention of writing one. Two Dominican artists from the Bronx, they bend genres, cultures, and expectations without asking for permission.

Growing up between the Bronx and the Dominican Republic shaped Planta Industrial at its core. At home it was merengue, bachata, and salsa. Out in the streets of New York, it was pure hip-hop. Their influences ranged from Linkin Park and System of a Down to early-2000s punk, rock, and metal — before hip-hop took over after the move to New York. That collision of worlds didn't produce a compromise. It produced something entirely its own.

Their first song together, "That's My Bitch," set the journey in motion. Rather than milking a single moment for streams, they kept moving — delivering tracks like "Teteo in The Bronx" and "Arthur Ave," giving their audience a body of work to grow into rather than one song to wait on.

"Arthur Ave" became a love letter to their neighborhood and to Big Pun — a tribute to the Bronx that transcended Dominican identity and spoke to the borough as a whole. The sonic framework they built around it — flipping samples, layering breakbeats, refusing the conventional — became a signature move.

Their EP series, Punk Wave Sin Barreras, is structured like a language course: broken into volumes, designed to be digested one chapter at a time, each installment more experimental than the last. The format is the message — no borders, no boxes, no genre ceiling.

Their "Teteo in The Bronx" premiered on Zane Lowe's Apple Music 1 show and later landed in a major commercial, with their COLORS debut accumulating over 78,000 views — proof that their energy travels across any room, any screen, any border.

Blending post-punk, dark wave, pop, electronic, and rap into a sound that defies easy categorization, Planta Industrial aren't chasing a lane — they're building one. The nueva generación has found its factory.