Devault — Sage DeVault — started producing as a teenage hobby in Orange County before an official remix for DJ Snake, released in late 2017, got named one of Billboard's top 10 remixes of the year and turned that hobby into an actual career. Official reworks for Rihanna, 6LACK, Alessia Cara, and Sabrina Claudio followed in short order.
'Leave Me Now,' released on Deadbeats in early 2018, led to a Geffen Records deal and his debut EP, Stay, and JADE, his 2019 audiovisual EP, pulled press attention from Playboy, Flaunt, and Forbes — a sound built on the same nostalgic-but-not-retro tension between Depeche Mode and Daft Punk that's defined his career since.