That year, he released a remix of experimental electro outfit BluntGuitar's "We Fell Off" on Los Angeles indie label No Ego Records, which was licensed to MTV and appeared in an episode of a Jersey Shore spinoff entitled The Pauly D Project.

After EDM trio Krewella, following several years of touring and a radio hit with the song "Alive", debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 with their debut album Get Wet, the group's manager Jake Udell, a friend of Zhu's from high school, immediately sought out Zhu and eventually signed him to his talent management firm Th3rd Brain.

[8] Zhu's first track, "Moves Like Ms Jackson",[9] a mashup of several songs by Outkast, was released anonymously in February 2014 and was positively received by blogs and reviewers covering electronic music.

[10] Other tracks appeared on the music streaming site SoundCloud throughout February and March,[11] followed by an EP titled The Nightday in April 2014,[12][13] which earned a number 1 play of the week on Triple J.

"[17] On May 15, 2015, Zhu appeared on Pete Tong's "After Hours" show and performed a 40-minute DJ mix, mostly consisting of unreleased remixes, and also announced the Nightday Collection clothing line.

[28] The full album was made available five months later on September 7, comprising 14 tracks featuring Tame Impala, Majid Jordan, and Tokimonsta.

[29] In 2019, Zhu released the song "Came for the Low", the music video for which featured 2020 United States presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

[30] The song was also featured in the third episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which was released onto Disney+ on April 2, 2021.

The news arrived alongside the announcement of his collaboration with the video game Mortal Kombat 1, for which Zhu produced an original track titled "Fatal".