Ocean Roulette
Ocean Roulette is a producer and DJ born and raised in Northridge, CA who represents the next generation of electronic artists. Although he produces tech house, his inspiration comes from psychedelic rock, indie rock, and years of playing in bands. These Inspirations are apparent in his work, with the sounds of Animal Collective, MGMT., and Stereolab permeating throughout.
Ocean Roulette's career began in earnest in 2017 with the help of Space Yacht. With their support and bookings, Ocean realized he had a chance to make a career out of something he had done for fun his entire life. Ocean was able to capitalize on Space Yacht's support with a number of quality releases from Desert Hearts to Box of Cats.
Ocean has played at major festivals, but even more impressive, Ocean has built his own community as one of the founders of the Jackson Collective. Prior to COVID, their Jackson Tree renegade festivals set the standard for DIY events in California.
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FOOLiE
https://soundcloud.com/fooliemusic
Going against the norm has been FOOLiE's modus operandi from the start. Having dabbled in producing Trap, Hip-Hop, and dubstep tunes, FOOLiE eventually found his true calling in House music. House really allows him to flex his interest in the strange with tunes heavily influenced by his love for all things Sci-Fi. It's this affinity for "the strangest of sounds" that landed him his first release on Maximono's This Ain't Bristol in late '17, arguably one of the hottest labels at the time.
In short order, FOOLiE went from being completely unknown, to releasing on T.A.B. and shortly after began debuting his sounds at San Francisco's top clubs for house music, Audio SF, courtesy of the taste makers at Space Yacht. Since then he has yet to let up on his relentless work ethic. He's been on an absolute tear adding tracks to his catalog with releases on labels such as Dirtybird, Trippy Ass Technologies, Box of Cats, Psycho Disco, Main Course, My Techno Weighs a Ton, Medium Well, House of Hustle, Audiophile XXL, and handful of self-releases. In addition to this he has enjoyed the regular appearances at clubs all across the SF Bay Area as well as the appearances he has made in the Central Valley, The Mojave Desert, Reno and Tampa.
Despite starting off with virtually no following, FOOLiE's unstoppable momentumhas more than cemented his presence in the underground scene as well as made him a staple in the Bay Area scene. Breaking into the scene the way he did is no small feat but capitalizing on it and constantly putting out work like he has is something to behold. To say he hit the ground running is an understatement and it's only a matter of time before his career truly takes off.
Even though he's gone from playing shows several times monthly to things just completely shutting down due to *gestures broadly at everything* the work hasn't stop. He is on the eve of releasing his biggest project yet, a full length 15 track album. "Conversations" is dropping May 15 on Trippy Ass Technologies with a 3 track prequel available as of this writing. This will be his most ambitious work yet and we hope to hear it played out loud soon as we gradually get back to "normality".