Ryan Celsius

Ryan Celsius (stylized as R y a n C e l s i u s °) is the pseudonym of a Washington, D.C.–based music curator, disc jockey, video artist, music producer and YouTuber.

His YouTube channel features visual mixtapes, combining underground hip hop, phonk and lo-fi tracks with nostalgic anime and movie visuals. Trappin in Japan, which began in 2017, is among the channel's most popular series.

Career

Based in Washington, D.C., Ryan Celsius began producing music and making videos in 2005. The same year, his production hardware was stolen, and he lost all the music and videos created. He opened his YouTube channel in 2011 as a "personal project". Most of Celsius' tracks come from independent artists. featuring visual mixtapes with first-person footage of people driving or walking through Japanese streets, Celsius' channel also holds 24/7 live streams of visual mixtapes. In summer 2019, Celsius' YouTube channel was demonetized and several videos were "shadow banned" due to "misleading thumbnails" in his videos. In 2021, he performed with Flying Lotus in New York, and was the visualizer maker for the official music video content of the TV series Yasuke.

Discography Marble (2021) Golden Hour (2022) no collision (2022) TYPE 2 (2023)