Celebrating its 5th anniversary as one of the most musically progressive events in all of the west coast, The Untz festival is scheduled to return this year with the continued vision of “An intentional co-created community gathering; integrating underground and electronic dance music, visionary art, creative expression, and transformational counterculture.” 2019 proved to be a wildly successful event all-around, and…
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New year, same great feature. Focus Five is back with its 24th installment. For this month we’ve got a New Zealand producer bringing the feels, an incredible talent with just over 100 followers, some fresh Dubstep and Drum & Bass, and a Canadian producer creating “minecraftstep”. Dive in below! CORTR Originating from Auckland, New Zealand CORTR possesses an exceptional ability…
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Concentrate’s inspiration roots from the earlier era of dubstep to curate deep dub and heavy bass melded together with subtle drum & bass influences. Music producer, Connor White formulated Concentrate coinciding as a suggestion to focus on the arrangement of his meticulously layered sound design. It doubles his portrayal of the general playstyle as being undiluted and pure in its…
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Competitive sports are a form of entertainment that, as a whole, afford individuals more anonymity. Even when you make it to the Olympics, you’ll probably not be a household name unless you prove yourself the best among the hundreds of others you’re up against. An Olympian competing in the long jump and triple jump, Will Claye’s rapping became evident with his…
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When Mac Miller died of an accidental drug overdose in September 2018, he was just coming into the prime of his life. While he was only 26, he had already been putting out music for the past decade and had 5 studio albums under his belt. His initial music was very party-centric, but as he got older he transitioned to…
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Zeds Dead are back and bringing the heat for 2020. We may be on the brink of our earth dying and existential dread is at an all-time high, but producers Dylan Mamid and Zachary Rapp-Rovan are here to keep us head banging until the very end. Enlisting label mates Subtronics, Champagne Drip and Holly and industry heavyweights such as Jauz,…
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Mick Jenkins has always been a prolific poet weaving situations, life bits, and mind blinks through beats that had lives of their own, from the murky murals of The Water[s] and Wave[s], to the dirt and summer gravel of Pieces of a Man. The Circus is a completely new and dry canvas that sits cleverly on the nook of a…
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Daniel Goldstein is the Denver-based mastermind behind the musical project Lane 8. He started making tracks back in 2012 and was signed to Above & Beyond’s Anjunadeep label the following year. His debut album Rise came out in 2015 after which he launched his label and event series both entitled This Never Happened. His sophomore album Little by Little was…
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So Much F.A.M. resides in Nevada City in the Northern California region curated by Harley Koch and Chris Vaughn. They ended 2019 with an impressive compilation album featuring CAMBOT, Slawth., Ofquartz, SLAYDE, SBASS JAMZ, UFyO, Only Child, Snuffy, Rymani, and Beatkarma. There’s a robust wonkiness kicking off with an industrial backbeat and robotic euphony progressively working its way throughout the…
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As the year comes to an end, we had to drop one final Focus Five to cap things off proper! This month we’ve got some bouncy future trap, Italian drum and bass, and a few exceptional bass producers. Look out for all of the artists below making waves in 2020. Angelic Root Angelic Root’s recently untethered M O T I…
