I need to rant. I just gotta say, I am tired y'all!
I'm tired of fake artists coming into our scene and viewing the community as a free piece of fruit, ripe for the picking. I'm tired of how they pollute the environment and its people, destroying foundations of support by replacing them with sycophants and demagogues. The utter lack of respect for the professional environment and the people who reside in this environment is alarming. They're clueless to the fact that it takes a village to maintain a cultural movement.
Event spaces erode, one location after another in our city due to poor operations involving these individuals. These same individuals took over a prominent local residence and used it to gate keep and distance themselves from the local movement. Their attitudes are manipulative and abusive and have become an inherited problem for everyone else invested locally. This behavior perverts the passionate pursuit of music. House Music is indeed a spiritual thing, and spirituality requires sacred intention. House Music is about bringing us together, not tearing people apart.
They entered our home and disrespected us face to face, physically assaulting our family members, hoping to provoke violence and dissonance in a place used to celebrate peace, love, unity, and respect. That's when enough is enough! They may wish to poison our energy, but we will not let them!
House music is about all of us. It’s about uplifting the community so that together we can grow and rise as one through the beat/vibration.
These tracks are my rants in music form. I'm taking the negative energy that's been brooding in our community for some time now and making something positive, by creating something we can dance to and draw awareness from. Most importantly though, I want this destructive behavior to end and for people to rise up and hold abusive people accountable. It doesn't matter the clout, the label, or the money, enough is enough!
Pairing wonky synths with crisp samples, the California-born, Berlin-based producer specializes in minimal house with a carefree spirit.
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