Future bass never really left the dance floor. It just got quieter about it. The supersaws are still there, the vocal chops still flutter, but the songs that stick now are the ones that sound like someone wrote them at 2 a.m. and only later decided they belonged on a festival stage. Learning How to Love, the new Hoang and KnownAsNat collaboration on Lost In Dreams Records, sits right in that lane.
Hoang has been building this sound for years. The Vancouver-born pianist and producer, who works under the handle @iamhoangmusic, treats piano the way a lot of future bass producers treat a Serum patch: as the emotional center, not the garnish. His debut album Heartstrings, released January 31, 2025 on Lost In Dreams, ran ten tracks deep through love, loss, and growth, with collaborators including Dia Frampton on 5 Years, Danny Olson on Already Gone, and Casey Cook on Better Now. Before that, Million Days and Run Back to You became the kind of melodic bass records people still queue when they want something that hits and still means something. His own line, "i'd still run back to you," is less a slogan than a thesis. Lost In Dreams, the Insomniac imprint built around future bass, melodic dubstep, and vocal-driven dance music, has been the natural home for that thesis.
KnownAsNat arrives from a different notebook. The bio is short and specific: "Straight from the pages of my diary." The catalog backs that up. Stereo Love, Lost Without You, Wait For You, and the Lost In Love EP are all built on the same confessional instinct, the kind of writing that does not dress heartbreak up as a concept. Pairing a pianist-producer who already writes in emotional melodic bass with a vocalist whose whole project is diary pages is not a random feature credit. It is a match of methods.
What future bass does well, when it is not chasing a drop for its own sake, is give that kind of writing room. A piano figure can sit under a soft vocal, then the arrangement opens into chord stacks, pitched-up chops, and a bassline that moves without shouting. Learning How to Love is billed as future bass, and that is the frame Hoang has already proven he can work in. His 2026 return to Monstercat with Ookay and Delaney Jane on Bad For Me was explicitly rooted in classic future bass, emotional and melodic rather than maximal. The Lost In Dreams setting pulls the same language toward something more cinematic: chords that bloom, a vocal that carries the title's weight, and a drop that feels like a release instead of a reset.
The title does a lot of the storytelling on its own. Learning how to love is not a victory lap. It is a process song, the kind of theme that runs through Heartstrings and through KnownAsNat's diary-style singles alike. Future bass has always been good at that middle distance, where the lyric is personal and the production is built for a room. Lost In Dreams has spent the last few years proving the room still wants it. Heartstrings was a full statement. Learning How to Love reads like the next page, shared with someone who writes the same way.
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What do you think of this pairing? Does future bass hit harder when it sounds like a diary, or do you still want the biggest drop in the room? Let me know in the comments.
