“The first thing I could think was, ‘I want to hear this in the club.’ I normally don’t have that reaction, but I could feel this in my loins,” Scott McNiece, who co-founded the label International Anthem in Chicago in 2014 before moving to Los Angeles in 2019, said during a video call. “But it was tickling me in my brain in the way that avant-garde music does, too. This was everything I wanted.”