L INEUP:
Romare DJ Set (Ninja Tune | London)
QRTR (Foreign Family | Philadelphia)
Farsight (Dead Beat Records / AYLI )
21+
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ROMARE BIO:
As Romare, Archie Fairhurst's working practice is rooted in collage, building vivid new forms out of existing material. Playful and immediate, but also deeply researched and compelling, his albums and performances reaching back to 2012 unfurl as a patchwork of inspirations and obsessive lines of enquiry made up of a global panoply of source material.
The clue is in the name -- Fairhurst called himself Romare in tribute to Romare Bearden, the lauded American multi-disciplinary artist most renowned for his incisive collages. In Bearden's process Fairhurst saw a way to approach the infinite pool of electronic music production, channeling his wealth of music knowledge into creating music from existing sonic material and bedding themes into his juxtapositions for a more considered approach to sampling.
No music lover sticks on one sound their whole lives, and so naturally Fairhurst's areas of focus have evolved over time from the breakout impact of his 2012 debut on Black Acre, Meditations On Afrocentrism, through a run of albums on Ninja Tune reaching up to 2020's reflection on place and belonging, Home. Projections is a direct homage to Bearden's work, and the Love Songs releases draw on the rich seam of romantic music as a jump-off point. Having lived a nomadic life himself growing up, his source material has moved around over time, but increasingly the sampling becomes more opaque and enmeshed within other instrumentation which rounds out the Romare sound. 2022's Fantasy expands on that idea with a more abstract approach, folding elements from 1970s fantasy cinema into his distinctive strain of rhythmic, off-centre electronica and heralding the start of his own label, You See.
For all the considered concepts and unusual arrangements, Romare's music is dance music at heart, and it remains a natural transplant into the live and club environment. At times Fairhurst has pulled together a full line-up to render his music on stage -- something of a call back to his roots playing guitar and drums in bands -- but elsewhere he's at home sequencing and arranging his music solo, re-moulding album material in the moment with the flexibility which dance music so often requires. Equally, he has DJ'd prolifically around the world with an omnivorous approach which serves as a logical extension of his studio craft, balancing hidden corners of historical investigation with the kinetic impulse of modern club music.
QRTR BIO:
Meagan Rodriguez is QRTR, a musician, DJ, and film composer flourishing within modern electronic music, recognized as a top rising indie artist.
Building music of conceptual depth, the tonality of QRTR's productions pull from various ethos: the entrancing and pulsating waves of house rhythms, psychedelic scopes of space and layering, and immersive worlds of sound that utilize her vast film and field recording library. QRTR can activate the biggest of stages and can also immerse the mind into a menagerie of unfolding styles cascading over one another. A singular artist in this generation that has released two monumental works within a 24-month window: 2020's Drenched and 2021's infina ad nausea.
The live resume and presentation of QRTR's music has become just as exemplary, making her presence known at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Electric Forest, HARD Summer, and Electric Zoo, and performing at some of the most cutting edge underground shows and festivals around the globe. Most notable was her appearance at A2B2's sold out Night of Fire festival at the Knockdown Center in New York, featuring QRTR alongside Arca, Eartheater, Andy Morin, Machinegirl, and Kero Kero Bonito.
Millions of plays across streaming platforms worldwide and a dedicated fan base that's expanded far outside of her East Coast roots, QRTR has become an undeniable force within modern electronic music.
FARSIGHT BIO:
Currently based in San Francisco, Farsight adventurously cross-pollinates the UK hardcore continuum with genres like trap music, jersey club, reggaeton and dancehall, cultivating a rabid following both domestically and across the Atlantic.
Emerging as an artist to watch with a daring EP on Belgium-based Maloca Records in 2020 and rave-inflected vinyl for the UK's Scuffed Records in 2021, further releases with Tropopause Records, Lobster Theremin sublabel Breaks 'N' Pieces, and Scuffed Records in 2022 have made evident Farsight's artistic range and hunger to create.
Farsight's mutant hybrids have been smuggled onto the dancefloor by the likes of Sherelle, Pearson Sound, Jaguar, Pangaea, Anz, DJ Zinc, Madam X, Dixon, Emerald Rose Lewis, Nikki Nair, Fauzia, India Jordan, Batu, Jossy Mitsu, Moxie, Doctor Jeep, Breaka, ZULI, Om Unit, and other selective selectors.
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Romare DJ Set (Ninja Tune | London)
QRTR (Foreign Family | Philadelphia)
Farsight (Dead Beat Records / AYLI )
21+
~~~~~~~~~
ROMARE BIO:
As Romare, Archie Fairhurst's working practice is rooted in collage, building vivid new forms out of existing material. Playful and immediate, but also deeply researched and compelling, his albums and performances reaching back to 2012 unfurl as a patchwork of inspirations and obsessive lines of enquiry made up of a global panoply of source material.
The clue is in the name -- Fairhurst called himself Romare in tribute to Romare Bearden, the lauded American multi-disciplinary artist most renowned for his incisive collages. In Bearden's process Fairhurst saw a way to approach the infinite pool of electronic music production, channeling his wealth of music knowledge into creating music from existing sonic material and bedding themes into his juxtapositions for a more considered approach to sampling.
No music lover sticks on one sound their whole lives, and so naturally Fairhurst's areas of focus have evolved over time from the breakout impact of his 2012 debut on Black Acre, Meditations On Afrocentrism, through a run of albums on Ninja Tune reaching up to 2020's reflection on place and belonging, Home. Projections is a direct homage to Bearden's work, and the Love Songs releases draw on the rich seam of romantic music as a jump-off point. Having lived a nomadic life himself growing up, his source material has moved around over time, but increasingly the sampling becomes more opaque and enmeshed within other instrumentation which rounds out the Romare sound. 2022's Fantasy expands on that idea with a more abstract approach, folding elements from 1970s fantasy cinema into his distinctive strain of rhythmic, off-centre electronica and heralding the start of his own label, You See.
For all the considered concepts and unusual arrangements, Romare's music is dance music at heart, and it remains a natural transplant into the live and club environment. At times Fairhurst has pulled together a full line-up to render his music on stage -- something of a call back to his roots playing guitar and drums in bands -- but elsewhere he's at home sequencing and arranging his music solo, re-moulding album material in the moment with the flexibility which dance music so often requires. Equally, he has DJ'd prolifically around the world with an omnivorous approach which serves as a logical extension of his studio craft, balancing hidden corners of historical investigation with the kinetic impulse of modern club music.
QRTR BIO:
Meagan Rodriguez is QRTR, a musician, DJ, and film composer flourishing within modern electronic music, recognized as a top rising indie artist.
Building music of conceptual depth, the tonality of QRTR's productions pull from various ethos: the entrancing and pulsating waves of house rhythms, psychedelic scopes of space and layering, and immersive worlds of sound that utilize her vast film and field recording library. QRTR can activate the biggest of stages and can also immerse the mind into a menagerie of unfolding styles cascading over one another. A singular artist in this generation that has released two monumental works within a 24-month window: 2020's Drenched and 2021's infina ad nausea.
The live resume and presentation of QRTR's music has become just as exemplary, making her presence known at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Electric Forest, HARD Summer, and Electric Zoo, and performing at some of the most cutting edge underground shows and festivals around the globe. Most notable was her appearance at A2B2's sold out Night of Fire festival at the Knockdown Center in New York, featuring QRTR alongside Arca, Eartheater, Andy Morin, Machinegirl, and Kero Kero Bonito.
Millions of plays across streaming platforms worldwide and a dedicated fan base that's expanded far outside of her East Coast roots, QRTR has become an undeniable force within modern electronic music.
FARSIGHT BIO:
Currently based in San Francisco, Farsight adventurously cross-pollinates the UK hardcore continuum with genres like trap music, jersey club, reggaeton and dancehall, cultivating a rabid following both domestically and across the Atlantic.
Emerging as an artist to watch with a daring EP on Belgium-based Maloca Records in 2020 and rave-inflected vinyl for the UK's Scuffed Records in 2021, further releases with Tropopause Records, Lobster Theremin sublabel Breaks 'N' Pieces, and Scuffed Records in 2022 have made evident Farsight's artistic range and hunger to create.
Farsight's mutant hybrids have been smuggled onto the dancefloor by the likes of Sherelle, Pearson Sound, Jaguar, Pangaea, Anz, DJ Zinc, Madam X, Dixon, Emerald Rose Lewis, Nikki Nair, Fauzia, India Jordan, Batu, Jossy Mitsu, Moxie, Doctor Jeep, Breaka, ZULI, Om Unit, and other selective selectors.
L INEUP:
Romare DJ Set (Ninja Tune | London)
QRTR (Foreign Family | Philadelphia)
Farsight (Dead Beat Records / AYLI )
21+
~~~~~~~~~
ROMARE BIO:
As Romare, Archie Fairhurst's working practice is rooted in collage, building vivid new forms out of existing material. Playful and immediate, but also deeply researched and compelling, his albums and performances reaching back to 2012 unfurl as a patchwork of inspirations and obsessive lines of enquiry made up of a global panoply of source material.
The clue is in the name -- Fairhurst called himself Romare in tribute to Romare Bearden, the lauded American multi-disciplinary artist most renowned for his incisive collages. In Bearden's process Fairhurst saw a way to approach the infinite pool of electronic music production, channeling his wealth of music knowledge into creating music from existing sonic material and bedding themes into his juxtapositions for a more considered approach to sampling.
No music lover sticks on one sound their whole lives, and so naturally Fairhurst's areas of focus have evolved over time from the breakout impact of his 2012 debut on Black Acre, Meditations On Afrocentrism, through a run of albums on Ninja Tune reaching up to 2020's reflection on place and belonging, Home. Projections is a direct homage to Bearden's work, and the Love Songs releases draw on the rich seam of romantic music as a jump-off point. Having lived a nomadic life himself growing up, his source material has moved around over time, but increasingly the sampling becomes more opaque and enmeshed within other instrumentation which rounds out the Romare sound. 2022's Fantasy expands on that idea with a more abstract approach, folding elements from 1970s fantasy cinema into his distinctive strain of rhythmic, off-centre electronica and heralding the start of his own label, You See.
For all the considered concepts and unusual arrangements, Romare's music is dance music at heart, and it remains a natural transplant into the live and club environment. At times Fairhurst has pulled together a full line-up to render his music on stage -- something of a call back to his roots playing guitar and drums in bands -- but elsewhere he's at home sequencing and arranging his music solo, re-moulding album material in the moment with the flexibility which dance music so often requires. Equally, he has DJ'd prolifically around the world with an omnivorous approach which serves as a logical extension of his studio craft, balancing hidden corners of historical investigation with the kinetic impulse of modern club music.
QRTR BIO:
Meagan Rodriguez is QRTR, a musician, DJ, and film composer flourishing within modern electronic music, recognized as a top rising indie artist.
Building music of conceptual depth, the tonality of QRTR's productions pull from various ethos: the entrancing and pulsating waves of house rhythms, psychedelic scopes of space and layering, and immersive worlds of sound that utilize her vast film and field recording library. QRTR can activate the biggest of stages and can also immerse the mind into a menagerie of unfolding styles cascading over one another. A singular artist in this generation that has released two monumental works within a 24-month window: 2020's Drenched and 2021's infina ad nausea.
The live resume and presentation of QRTR's music has become just as exemplary, making her presence known at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Electric Forest, HARD Summer, and Electric Zoo, and performing at some of the most cutting edge underground shows and festivals around the globe. Most notable was her appearance at A2B2's sold out Night of Fire festival at the Knockdown Center in New York, featuring QRTR alongside Arca, Eartheater, Andy Morin, Machinegirl, and Kero Kero Bonito.
Millions of plays across streaming platforms worldwide and a dedicated fan base that's expanded far outside of her East Coast roots, QRTR has become an undeniable force within modern electronic music.
FARSIGHT BIO:
Currently based in San Francisco, Farsight adventurously cross-pollinates the UK hardcore continuum with genres like trap music, jersey club, reggaeton and dancehall, cultivating a rabid following both domestically and across the Atlantic.
Emerging as an artist to watch with a daring EP on Belgium-based Maloca Records in 2020 and rave-inflected vinyl for the UK's Scuffed Records in 2021, further releases with Tropopause Records, Lobster Theremin sublabel Breaks 'N' Pieces, and Scuffed Records in 2022 have made evident Farsight's artistic range and hunger to create.
Farsight's mutant hybrids have been smuggled onto the dancefloor by the likes of Sherelle, Pearson Sound, Jaguar, Pangaea, Anz, DJ Zinc, Madam X, Dixon, Emerald Rose Lewis, Nikki Nair, Fauzia, India Jordan, Batu, Jossy Mitsu, Moxie, Doctor Jeep, Breaka, ZULI, Om Unit, and other selective selectors.
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Romare DJ Set (Ninja Tune | London)
QRTR (Foreign Family | Philadelphia)
Farsight (Dead Beat Records / AYLI )
21+
~~~~~~~~~
ROMARE BIO:
As Romare, Archie Fairhurst's working practice is rooted in collage, building vivid new forms out of existing material. Playful and immediate, but also deeply researched and compelling, his albums and performances reaching back to 2012 unfurl as a patchwork of inspirations and obsessive lines of enquiry made up of a global panoply of source material.
The clue is in the name -- Fairhurst called himself Romare in tribute to Romare Bearden, the lauded American multi-disciplinary artist most renowned for his incisive collages. In Bearden's process Fairhurst saw a way to approach the infinite pool of electronic music production, channeling his wealth of music knowledge into creating music from existing sonic material and bedding themes into his juxtapositions for a more considered approach to sampling.
No music lover sticks on one sound their whole lives, and so naturally Fairhurst's areas of focus have evolved over time from the breakout impact of his 2012 debut on Black Acre, Meditations On Afrocentrism, through a run of albums on Ninja Tune reaching up to 2020's reflection on place and belonging, Home. Projections is a direct homage to Bearden's work, and the Love Songs releases draw on the rich seam of romantic music as a jump-off point. Having lived a nomadic life himself growing up, his source material has moved around over time, but increasingly the sampling becomes more opaque and enmeshed within other instrumentation which rounds out the Romare sound. 2022's Fantasy expands on that idea with a more abstract approach, folding elements from 1970s fantasy cinema into his distinctive strain of rhythmic, off-centre electronica and heralding the start of his own label, You See.
For all the considered concepts and unusual arrangements, Romare's music is dance music at heart, and it remains a natural transplant into the live and club environment. At times Fairhurst has pulled together a full line-up to render his music on stage -- something of a call back to his roots playing guitar and drums in bands -- but elsewhere he's at home sequencing and arranging his music solo, re-moulding album material in the moment with the flexibility which dance music so often requires. Equally, he has DJ'd prolifically around the world with an omnivorous approach which serves as a logical extension of his studio craft, balancing hidden corners of historical investigation with the kinetic impulse of modern club music.
QRTR BIO:
Meagan Rodriguez is QRTR, a musician, DJ, and film composer flourishing within modern electronic music, recognized as a top rising indie artist.
Building music of conceptual depth, the tonality of QRTR's productions pull from various ethos: the entrancing and pulsating waves of house rhythms, psychedelic scopes of space and layering, and immersive worlds of sound that utilize her vast film and field recording library. QRTR can activate the biggest of stages and can also immerse the mind into a menagerie of unfolding styles cascading over one another. A singular artist in this generation that has released two monumental works within a 24-month window: 2020's Drenched and 2021's infina ad nausea.
The live resume and presentation of QRTR's music has become just as exemplary, making her presence known at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Electric Forest, HARD Summer, and Electric Zoo, and performing at some of the most cutting edge underground shows and festivals around the globe. Most notable was her appearance at A2B2's sold out Night of Fire festival at the Knockdown Center in New York, featuring QRTR alongside Arca, Eartheater, Andy Morin, Machinegirl, and Kero Kero Bonito.
Millions of plays across streaming platforms worldwide and a dedicated fan base that's expanded far outside of her East Coast roots, QRTR has become an undeniable force within modern electronic music.
FARSIGHT BIO:
Currently based in San Francisco, Farsight adventurously cross-pollinates the UK hardcore continuum with genres like trap music, jersey club, reggaeton and dancehall, cultivating a rabid following both domestically and across the Atlantic.
Emerging as an artist to watch with a daring EP on Belgium-based Maloca Records in 2020 and rave-inflected vinyl for the UK's Scuffed Records in 2021, further releases with Tropopause Records, Lobster Theremin sublabel Breaks 'N' Pieces, and Scuffed Records in 2022 have made evident Farsight's artistic range and hunger to create.
Farsight's mutant hybrids have been smuggled onto the dancefloor by the likes of Sherelle, Pearson Sound, Jaguar, Pangaea, Anz, DJ Zinc, Madam X, Dixon, Emerald Rose Lewis, Nikki Nair, Fauzia, India Jordan, Batu, Jossy Mitsu, Moxie, Doctor Jeep, Breaka, ZULI, Om Unit, and other selective selectors.
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