Alex Bell

Taking a welcome departure from our bass-heavy banger mixes to sprinkle a little sonic healing into your life, we’ve tapped Tom Rose, also known as Jives, as the 142nd installment of our guest mix + interview series. Hailing from Melbourne in the land down under, he firmly captured our team’s collective attention with his immensely soothing style and relaxing quality…

Concocting an exceptionally experimental and splendidly spooky audible aesthetic from the very beginning of their production career, Shanghai Doom have carved out their own welcome niche into the electronic music ecosystem. With ridiculous releases on a wide variety of prominent progressive labels like Wakaan, Bassrush, Wormhole Music Group, and more, along with being the 34th installment of our guest mix…

For fans of only the most sensational of groovy house tunes, Los Angeles’s Anthony Sceam aims to more than hit the mark. With over 5 years of production experience under his belt, and several years of touring as a drummer with various bands before that, music has been his passion and lifeblood for over a decade. In that time, he’s…

As the alien overlord in charge of all things Wakaan, Martin Staaf, also known by his production alias Liquid Stranger, has curated a home away from home for burgeoning bass music producers that are fiercely pushing the envelope for progressive audio flavors. Championing the weird, wild, and wonderful side of the community, he’s spearheaded a movement for forward-thinking sounds that…

It’s Black history month, and we must say, African Americans are depressingly underrepresented in our society as a whole, and even more so specifically in our music communities. With the very foundation of electronic music stemming from black culture, it’s pure insanity that they receive so little recognition for literally laying the groundwork for everything we know and hold dear…

When it comes to titanic duos in the bass music community, not many keep up the same sensational energy that the Eazybaked boys do. Combining the creative efforts of Eric Ray and Andrew Principe, these Florida boys have taken the game by storm in recent years, handcrafting their own distinct flavor of experimental-leaning beats. Joining forces with the rest of…

Staying relevant for the better part of a decade in any genre is no small feat, but one that Stylust (formerly known as Stylust Beats) has handled with endless grace and poise. Attaining true legend status as one of the most anticipated sets yearly at the Village Stage at Shambhala Music Festival, his “hotbox the village” extravaganza aims to be…

In the excessively saturated waters of the far-reaching dubstep community, it’s quite the arduous journey to build and maintain a wildly successful career for even a few years, let alone almost a decade. One of the longstanding tastemakers in the scene with a truly iconic sound is none other than the pasta master himself Spag Heddy. Playing the biggest festivals…

Mesa, Arizona is usually known for its dry, arid heat, but not normally as a hotbed for the electronic music scene. Chase Marsh, also known by his stage name Yewz, firmly aims to challenge that. Manipulating soundwaves into all sorts of intoxicating concoctions with relative ease, this sultry sonic slanger already has a distinct style that separates him from the…

Philadelphia’s Tiedye Ky dazzled fans this past September with the release of his iconic debut album Baby Blue and the Super Moon, which was highly regarded by the entirety of our team and a vast majority of the community-at-large, along with cementing the #43 spot on our Top 50 Tracks of 2020 list with ‘Never Cage a Butterfly.’ This emotional…