#and she's still just.... my borgor.....

[streetslost]

@slxver-scrxm

            "COME ON, dude, y'made me drop my burger. in a puddle." if it wasn't now sopping, she totally would have reclaimed it and continued her eating. sidewalk sandwich wouldn't have been the WORST thing cat had devoured... but the idea of sopping wet bread full of rainwater even had her scrunching her expression. ick... perhaps she ought to have been more concerned about the guy, but d i s a p p o i n t m e n t was the only veil presently worn, lips pressing a thin line. eventually, the street rat would tilt attention upward. "y'owe me."

[xxgrrawrrgrrlxd]

Hello! Here's a kandi master post. This is mostly just my favorites because if I posted them all, this would be sooooo much longer. I've loosely organized them, and I'll talk about certain ones a little bit. At the end I have all the kandi I've received at raves. Hope you enjoy! 👉👈❤️

Overthinker is an INZO banger. I Like the Devil is my favorite Purity Ring song. Satan's Pretty Cool is technically from the Subtronics song Senpai, where he samples audio from the "notice me senpai notice me" satanist video. The rest are pretty self-explanatory. I didn't have any gold beads for the biblically accurate one, but I still love how it turned out.

The froggy kandi was my first attempt at making a bead animal. He didn't turn out great and bunches up really bad when I wear it, but I keep him because I love my grungly son. This picture makes him look very photogenic. 💚

As Above So Below is a Kill The Noise song. I really love how this kandi turned out. Space Wizard is an amazing dj. Blow Stuff Up is from a Subtronics song, I can't remember which one.

I've worn the Stranger with Kandi kandi at pretty much every rave I've gone to since I made it. The charm has seen better days. It used to be a lollipop but the stick came off 💔

So these are all songs except for two. Goldrush is a festival we went to last October. And I love drum n bass. If it plays at a show, I go absolutely berserk without fail.

Funkonaut is my favorite LSDREAM song. Sunlight hurts my eyes is from Sunlight by Modestep (one of my favorite djs). Better With You is a song by Andromedik. Yoink is from the Subtronics remix of the song Runaway (U & I) by Galantis. Fuckinggggg bangerrrrr. It samples audio from TF2 lmao. Bitches love cake is from Decisions by Borgore. Beep Boop is by Reeva. And you are my utopia is from Utopia by Black Tiger Sex Machine.

These are all artists. All but one were made for shows I've gone to. I'm seeing Rezz in April. Grabbitz is absolutely one of my favorite artists. If you check out any of the artists from this post, I'd recommend him. Specifically, the songs Pigs in the Sky, SURRENDER PEACE!, Going Insane, Pain Killer, and Into Pieces (both the original and Wooli x Grabbitz remix slap). I know that's a lot of songs, sorry 😖

And last but not least, here is all the kandi I've gotten from other people. The necklace and the three kandi inside are from friends. The one that says rainbows was the first kandi I ever got. That girl taught me how to PLUR, and I cherish that memory. I gave a girl in an LSDREAM jersey a kandi that said peace love wubz, and she gave me her favorite scrunchie. I feel honored. I rarely wear these kandi to shows because I don't want something to happen to them. But trust me, they are very loved. ❤️

This was pretty long-winded, but I hope you enjoyed it!!! I've made a bunch of cool ones for my boyfriend as well. If anyone wants to see some of those, let me know. I've also made my boyfriend and I jerseys and shirts for djs we like. If anyone's interested, I could make a post for those as well.

Raves, kandi, and EDM music are a huge love of mine. I'm always down to talk about it. 🫶

[justphilia]

Weathering with You (Serirei AU)

It’s got umbrellas, it’s got love. What more could we ever want?

Note: I wrote this partially sleep drunk, so ignore any incoherent yelling or gibberish murmuring. If i accidently cut this post off, it’s probably because I forgot to swtch the thing to save draft.

I badly wanted to tie it with my Terumob Your Name AU, but realized it probably won’t connect well, so I might not do it in the end.

Then I realized: Shit, they’re supposed to be kids in this, so oops now it’s also an ageswap thing. I want to stay close to the OG plot as well, so there’s no psychics either;;;

Anyway, Serizawa runs away into the big city and nearly falls off the boat but is saved by Kageyama Ritsu (I wanted to use Shou but you’ll see why I used Ritsu later). If you’ve watched the movie, you’d know shenanigans happen with Serizawa trying to find a job and he eventually finds a gun in a trashcan after being shoved away.

He shelters in a MobDonald’s and Reigen makes an entrance by giving Serizawa a free borgor! And Serizawa ends up keeping the gun under the impression that it’s a toy.

Under cut is all the spoilers for the movie, so if you don’t want that, watch the movie, come back or just read anyways and pretend this is the movie lmao.

Serizawa gets desperate to find a job and eventually tracks Ritsu’s business down to ask for work (can’t remember the plot correctly but I think this was how it went). On the bus (if you’ve watched the movie, you’d also know) Serizawa spots Reigen’s lil’ sister before he knows she’s Reigen’s sister.

(Sister idea dragged from here, and I’ll be naming her Reigen Kanako)

He finds Ritsu’s business, which turns out to be pretty small and it’s one of those, like, semi-basement sort of office/house? He meets Ritsu’s niece, who Serizawa accidentally mistakes as Ritsu’s mistress; Kageyama Mihoko.

(Mihoko dragged from here. Hello Toasty sorry Toasty)

Ritsu, who literally just wanted to be a cool writer, ends up working as some shady magazine dude and he hates it so much please man help him (not compliant to canon story). The only thing that keeps him going is the fact that most of his articles surrounds the idea of supernatural stuff, and he adores that stuff, so he gets Serizawa to write an article about this “Weather Maiden” due to the fact that it’s raining so heavily.

Cut to the scene where Serizawa spots Reigen walking with the guy that shoved Serizawa into the trashcan days ago and he thinks the guy is trying to hurt Reigen, so he runs and saves Reigen and later on uses the gun, which he thinks is a toy, to scare the guy off.

Effectively, it does scare the guy off. Unfortunately, Serizawa’s assumption about the gun is wrong. ‘twas not a toy, my good man.

So Reigen is just; “Shit balls.” and they run off to the shrine where Reigen got his magic weather powers. Serizawa tosses the gun there and he sees how epic Reigen’s powers are and is like; “We can make money out of this.”

So they do. Then Serizawa properly meets Kanako, and we get a montage of Reigen praying the rain away. Also a funny moment where Reigen’s like; “Weather maiden? I’m a guy tho”

I’m sorry, I’m so tired. Anyway, eventually police find out Serizawa had used a gun and are after him, and it promptly drags Reigen into this mess because Reigen’s parents don’t exist no more and if the police finds them, Reigen and his sister has to be taken by the social service people. 

Police thinks Ritsu kidnapped Serizawa so he fires Serizawa from the writing job.

And as you know, the trio (Reigen’s and Serizawa) has to spend the night at a nifty hotel, and it’s revealed that Reigen’s gon turn into water as a human sacrifice to stop the rain.

Serizawa’s like: No!

But Reigen: Change da world. My final message. Goodbye.

Serizawa and Kanako are arrested by the police the next morning, with Reigen completely missing.

If I do write this as a fic, I hope it isn’t as shitty as this post holy m a n.

Serizawa breaks free from the police and begins running to the shrine where Reigen first showed his powers, and Mihoko, the badass woman, comes in with her motorbike(?) and zips off with Serizawa sitting behind her.

Since it was raining real bad, it got p flooded, and the bike gets stuck in the water at some point, so Serizawa has to run run run.

Meanwhile, Kanako breaks out of baby jail with a cap and boy clothes. Thank you Kanako fan club, you are just like your onii-chan. Except his fan club is behind the fourth wall.

Back to story, Ritsu confronts Serizawa and tells him to give up, but Serizawa pulls a protagonist scream and yell and that triggers Ritsu’s inner emo and betrays the police to let Serizawa get to the shrine. Kanako is there too ig but all she does is tackle like one guy and yell about her brother.

Serizawa saves Reigen. The rain comes back. Serizawa goes back home. He comes back three years later. It’s still raining. He sees Reigen.

Roll credits good night.

[driftinghereandthere]

BUKU RANT AHEAD

Okay so Chaitlin and I went to Buku this year with the hope of it being an incredible experience, but it was fucking wack. First of all, the people in NOLA are fucking  r u d e. I have never experienced such dirty stares or loud shit talking in my entire life, and it didn’t get much better once inside the festival. I’m not a ~rave queen~ by any means, but what I do love about going to festivals is the overwhelming amount of loving energy that courses through the air. That was NOT the case for Buku. There was such an angry and aggressive energy permeating the entire place that Chaitlin and I couldn’t even find one little sanctuary of our own. No one smiles when they look at you, they aggressively try to cut in front of you, and they were all so focused on themselves! Out of all the people I met, only one was a decent human being and we didn’t say more than two words to each other. At one point, a man was butt ass naked getting a shot in his ass because he was practically DEAD and the people trying to walk around the scene were breaking out into a fight because they didn’t want to follow the security’s orders!

Now the first day wasn’t as bad as the second, in my opinion, but they had most of the top artists sets stacked right on top of each other (on opposite sides of the venue of course) so we were rushing to see bits and pieces of people we love. We missed Spag Heddy because the parking situation was wack (they said it was free, but it was $20 so we ended up driving around NOLA to find free street parking), and luckily we got to hear Ganja White Night + Boogie T but only because we were in this BULLSHIT water line that was right outside of that stage. Sidenote, we stood in that water line for the entirety of Ganja White Night’s set because the water was trickling out so slow and the girls next to us were trying to shove their way past us. At this point, I’ve popped like two points of molly so all I want to do is vibe peacefully. We made it to MGMT (which was fun but we only stayed for a couple songs because their music got a little weird) and then we hauled ass to go see SNAILS. That was the best time I had at Buku because SNAILS always comes through with the beat drops and the vibe, but we had to leave 30/40 minutes in because SZA was on at the other side of the festival and I was NOT going to miss that angel. So we get to SZA and I am having the time of my life. I’m rollie, she’s angelic, and I got to hear my favorite song. But BOOM, out of nowhere the stage is black and she is MIA 15 minutes before her time is up. What happened, you ask? She fucking fell off the stage and sprained her ankle. You can’t tell me that was a coincidence because she had the most loving energy radiating off of her and I swear to god Buku just fucked it up because after that happened things really started going downhill. One news article even joked that the stage she was on might be cursed and I wouldn’t doubt it. So SZA has to leave early and now we still have an hour until Migos. Well, like the trash they are, Migos ends up being 45 MINUTES LATE. I’ve seen them once before and the pulled the same shit, but their performance made up for it. Not this time though. They didn’t apologize for the delay, they mumbled their lyrics, and they only played 30 second previews of each song!!!!! I’m not making this up!!!!! People were fucking p i s s e d (well I know some were, but there were a lot of sorority/frat people who were like “oh my gooooooddd Migos was soooo gooooood”). Not to mention, they didn’t even play Bricks which was the whole reason we even sat through that trash set. So day one is coming to a close, but there was still Virtual Self and Flatbush Zombies. Well as we’re trying to get to that side of the venue, security has to close down the walkway for a good 35 minutes because a train was on its way through! I’m sure you can imagine everyone’s piss poor attitude during that hold-up. But we finally make it and long story short, Virtual Self was not our cup of tea, and Flatbush Zombies took 15 minutes longer to come on than expected so we just dipped because neither of us could be surrounded by those people and that energy any longer. 

So now it’s day two. We’re thinking, “hey, maybe it’ll be less people because most of the really hot artists were day one.” Wrong. It was twice, if not three times as packed and people were even RUDER.  We missed Noname because of more parking bullshit, and the next person we wanted to see didn’t come on for another four hours. The good part about day two is that we actually had time to look around at all of the little intricacies and we ended up buying cute rings and some food. Doing so though, we missed Illenium (who I wasn’t even trying to see, but watching footage afterward I wish we had seen them because they sounded good as hell). At around seven we end up finding our way to Emo Nite LA with the hopes of getting lit to some throwbacks, but it was just “eh.” I mean, they played some bops for sure, but they were literally just a group of 19/20 something year old fuck boys who take pride in not being dj’s and just pressing random buttons. Every song they played had annoying air horn and dolphin sounds playing over them. Not to mention, the people at that set were flailing their limbs around and just jumping up and down. Actually, it wasn’t just at that set, but the whole festival itself. Chaitlin and I are headbangers, but we can get wavy to some other stuff for sure, and then there are typically people who shuffle or do light shows. This place didn’t have any of that. It’s like all of the people there didn’t know how to dance, couldn’t find the beat, and they were doing this weird jump/lunge move while swinging their arms??? And no one could do a proper light show!!!!!!!!!!!! We had three different people with gloves offer to give us a show and they were all  t r a s h. Anyway, the time finally comes for Borgore, the daddy of filth if you will, and we LOVE Borgore because he gets dirty with his beats and his adlibs are fire. So we get in there and it’s packed as all hell, but he starts off with some good shit. However, the people standing next to and in front of us were all doing that body flailing shit! And they didn’t know any of his songs! So Chaitlin and I are sweating balls, people are blindly running into us, and we’re barely even rolling because we were so uncomfortable. And to make matters worse, Borgore pulled some snake ass shit and started playing BULLSHIT tracks I’ve never heard him perform before. Out of nowhere he starts playing uppity, jumpy, house tracks and the crowd fucking ate it up. The look of horror that spread across our faces was priceless and we ended up sitting down during his set because we just couldn’t do it. (It should be noted that while I’m not a lover of house, I can fuck it up on occasion but we were so excited to hear his usual shit and desperately needed to headbang out all of the anxiety we’ve been feeling the past two days). We ended up getting pretty close to the exit because we were fucking over it, but luckily he switched back to his trap/dubstep ways. Interestingly enough, the majority of the crowd bailed when he switched back and people that were coming in were asking if this was Borgore. Not to sound snobby, but how do you not know who Borgore if you’re at Buku? It’s like everyone was there to just say they were there, you know? We have this theory that the artists were told to play certain things because that’s what the crowd wanted. Borgore didn’t even do adlibs! He was silent through his whole set! Which is so unlike him because he is usually interacting with the crowd and constantly asking to see some titties lmao. After a very disappointing Borgore performance, we made our way to Bassnecter. We decided to avoid the giant crowd and chill in the grass under some pretty light structures, but boy was that a huge mistake. At this point, we’re on five points and can barely feel anything because the music and the people have been trash. But we get settled, Bassnectar is killing it, and the roll starts hitting. Well, we notice these girls smiling at us so of course I’m like, “Oh my god, hi!” because that was the first time in two days that someone actually smiled in our direction and I’m feeling lovey dovey rollie. So we go and sit next to them and that was the worst mistake we could have made. 

The main girl was the biggest narcissist I’ve ever met and wouldn’t stop talking about herself and probing us to ask her questions. She lured us in by complimenting us, but as we sat with her the compliments began to sound so ingenuine and she wasn’t listening to anything we had to say. Her friends were just as bad too, one of them was in there with a fake ID and the other one was so fucked up that she was talking over everyone and couldn’t stay steady in one place. However, we did find out through them that apparently, Lil Uzi didn’t even show up for his set! (Neither did Dex or Ski Mask the Slump God). For some reason though, we didn’t leave and just tried to keep it chill. I made the mistake of offering them a hit off my dab pen because next thing you know it’s getting passed around to who knows who and people are taking multiple fucking rips off of it. One girl needed a sip of water and next thing you know our water mug is empty. That continued to happen with the gum and lotion we brought as well (and later we put it together that they stole our pack of cigarettes). So by now, we’ve stopped rolling once again because this bitch is yapping about herself during Bassnectar’s set, my dab pen is empty, and we start getting antsy. We finally decided to just get the fuck out of there and go see Little Dragon. Now I’ve only really heard Little Dragon as a feature on other people’s songs, but I like her voice and from what I understood she had a wavy vibe. Nope. We couldn’t even sit through more than two songs because she didn’t say one word and she was playing trancy music! We bailed on that and made our way to Rezz, who went hard on the first song, but the rest was just more of that jumpy bullshit, and the crowd was horrendous. People were flailing and screaming all over the place and getting out was like something out of a nightmare. The people in the crowd looked so dead in the eyes and none of them moved out of the way, but instead stared us down as we were leaving. Rezz’s debut album is called Mass Manipulation and I swear to god it felt like that entire crowd was a group of angry, brainwashed zombies. Fitting, huh? At this point, the molly isn’t even working and we both start having lowkey anxiety attacks, but Isaiah Rashad is closing the festival and I’m a fan of his stuff so we head over there. Pfffffffff, first off, he’s a talker. He just talked, talked, talked, and took forever to actually play something. And when he did, it was terrible! His voice was overpowering the beat, and it was so heavy and rough. It sounded nothing like his recorded songs. We decided to just call it quits and head the fuck home because the anxiety was getting out of control.

So basically, my review is a 3/10. The concept was great but the execution was horrible. The crowd consisted of so many rich kids all wearing the same, overpriced “I Heart Raves” outfits or Hawaiian shirts, and everyone was so wrapped up in themselves. At one point, this guy next to us snapped at his girlfriend and was like, “the whole point of being here is to experience it, not take it” because all she was doing was getting her friends to take pics of her while artists were performing. The people were literally Energy Vampires. So many people came up to us asking if we had molly, and I’m convinced that the group of awful girls could sense our nurturing energy because they literally sucked us dry. I’ve never been to a festival where people at the back of the water line started arguing with the front because they think they deserve water first. I’ve never been to a festival where everyone is shoulder checking you, looking down on you, stealing shit from you, or bragging about their handmade, artisan, face jewels they bought for $30. It was a fake woke, commercial bullshit, evil energy environment that I don’t care to go back to. Thanks, but no thanks Buku. 

[smellykattt]

Guys I'm bored :(

I'm gonna do a throwback myspace survey. Because it's 3am & im not tired & I wanna do something cooooool EL OH EL! So if you wanna know a little bit more about myself... here's ya chance! 1. If you could spend a week anywhere in the world, where would it be and why? Would you take anyone with you? Umm I want to go to... south beach Florida. Just because the last time I went I had an INCREDIBLE time & I would take Josh (my sugar) because he's never been & I want to show him how much fun it was... WHILE WE'RE YOUNG! 2. What is your preferred writing implement? (eg. Blue pen, pencil, green pen) lately, it's been black pens. I usually use the blue pens but... yee 3. Favorite month and why? OCTOBER!!! HALLOWEEN! EASY! 4. Do you have connections to any celebrities (even minor)? LMFAO no. 5. Name 3 items you could pick up from where you are: my pillow, my laptop, my glass of water. 6. What brand logo is closest to you currently? Thrasher... 7. Do you ever play board games or other non-computer games? Got any favourites? Recently I've been playing cribbage, it's Joshs favorite mathematical game & I'm actually really good at it so... 8. A musical artist you love that isn’t well known A musical artist you love that is well known: isn't well known - TELENA! I love her. Is well known - Chet faker (I would really hope he's well known lmfao) 9. What is your desktop background currently? Me & josh being cute on my bed with the photo booth pink hearts 💕 floating over our heads hehe 10. Last person you talked to, and through what you talked to them: currently with josh, via Skype, but he's sleeping rn... 11. What kind of headphones do you use? The ones given by the iPhone company el oh el 12. What musical artists have you seen perform live? Chet Faker, Wiz Khalifa, Carnage, Borgore, The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, a lot more since I've been to music festivals 13. What pets do you have? What are their names? I have a cat! Her name is Pumpkin 🐱 14. What’s the best job you’ve ever had? Store manager for Pressed Juicery, just because I've worked with amazing people & it was very easy. 15. What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? AMC! I HATED IT!!!! I STILL DO! 16. Inspiration behind your URL? I'm a Mexican & a thottie to my mans. 17. Inspiration behind your blog title? Cause I am "ya girllllllll" 18. Favorite item of clothing? Any long tshirt!!! 19. Are you friends with any exes? Yes! One is actually my best guy friend! & I think I'm friends with another but we don't talk a lot. 20. Name at least one book you loved as a child: okay, there's a book out there where the girl gets green hair, or she wants green hair. But her mom said she would only get it if she ate her veggies... YA'LL IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS BOOK FOR WEEKS! IF YOU KNOW THE NAME OF IT PLEASE MESSAGE ME! I will be forever grateful. 21. What email service do you use? Yahoo! 22. Is there anything hanging on the walls of the room you are currently in? 2 tapestries, a "lala land" poster, my mirror, 3 hats, 3 of those Hawaiian necklaces, my grad cap, a Chinese hand fan, my calendar, 2 lights, a photograph of a fall taken by josh, a street league poster, Sean Malto poster, floral headbands... I think that's it lol 23. What did you have for dinner yesterday? Tostadas! 😋 24. What’s your favourite candy/chocolate? I'm not really a sweets person, so I'm gonna go with... junior mints :) 25. Have you had other blogs on Tumblr? Do you have any other blogs currently? Yes, I've had 2 other blogs & no I do not have them anymore. Just this one. 26. If you were suddenly really hungry, what would you choose to eat? Some more tostadas... 27. How would you describe your sense of humour? I definitely like to analyze other people & see what THEIR humor is like & I'll just go from there. It varies from the people I hang out with cause some people are open minded & others aren't. So I like to be considerate of others. 28. What things annoy you more than anything else? People who think they're better than anyone else, people who use personal events or facts to make "jokes". People who don't share. Honestly, just being disrespectful, but I will be more than happy to fix it for you :))))) 29. Do you wear much jewelry? I wear my chocker with a choice of different chakra charms, my Colombian bracelet that josh let me keep. A bracelet his grandma made, a bracelet I found in his room & he let me keep as well. A bracelet my store manager gave to keep away negative energy. My 3rd eye bracelet & that's pretty much it! 30. Who is the leader of your country, currently? The devil. 31. Do you enjoy driving? Why or why not? No!!!! I've been doing it for awhile, I hate it! It's boring & bleh. 32. Longest drive you have ever been on? 18 hours to Miami!!!! 33. Furthest away from home you have ever been? I live in Jersey so going to Mexico when I was 4 34. How many times have you moved house? WAYYYY too many to count. 35. Is there is anything that is guaranteed to always make you happy? Food. 36. Is there anything that always makes you sad? THIS COUNTRY!!!!! 37. Last strong smell you can remember smelling? Whatever my mom used to mop her kitchen floor with lmao 38. Last healthy thing you ate? Lettuce??? It was on my tostada 😭😭😂😂 39. Do you drink tea or coffee, and how much per day? I drink tea! Any chance I have. I'm not really a coffee person. 40. When was the last time you drank water? Sunday night! 41. How often do you clear your browser history? I don't :x 42. If you had to move your birthday to another date, which one would you choose and why? OCT. 31ST!!!! HALLOWEEEEN!!!! 43. Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you? I used to! But I haven't seen her since I was 10... 44. What is your least favorite color, and why? Probably... anything neon... it just makes me uneasy lol 45. How do you spell grey/gray? Gray 46. What time is it currently? 3:46am!!! 47. Is there anything you should be doing right now? Sleeping! So goodnight everyone 😴💙

[tune-collective]

Jauz Talks Meteoric Rise, Style-Hopping Sound & Songwriting

Jauz Talks Meteoric Rise, Style-Hopping Sound & Songwriting

The producer Jauz, real name Sam Vogel, has risen rapidly through the ranks behind a series of high-energy singles, dynamite remixes, and collaborations with an assortment of arena-quaking DJs — Skrillex, Tiesto, Diplo, Marshmello and more. 

But the 23-year-old’s initial dream was to entertain arenas in a different way. “I remember telling my mom, ‘I’m going to be in *NSYNC,” he says. “She’s like, ‘well, you kind of have to learn piano and all this stuff.’ I’m like, ‘fuck that, I’ll just figure it out.'” From age six, he planned “to do music in one capacity or the other.”

Vogel brought a similar hard-headed focus to his appreciation for heavy metal, which he discovered in middle school. “I got super into Metallica,” he explains, “and I started learning every single one of their songs. I would sit in my room for six hours at a time, run albums all the way through, and play everything. All of my favorite bands, I would learn their entire albums front to back.”

The rigor of his approach made it difficult to find bandmates — most wanted a more casual musical experience — but it helped push him towards learning music technology programs. “I started trying to make music in bands in high school with a bunch of kids that weren’t really that committed,” Vogel recalls. “I found Pro Tools and tried to be my own one man band. I don’t want to have to rely on other people.” He encountered Datsik and Excision’s “Swagga” in a friend’s car and found that it buzzed his system in the same way as metal records. This kicked off his slow drift towards the heavy end of the electronic music spectrum. 

Before he officially launched the Jauz project — following a stint at film school and an eye-opening enrollment in the production school Icon, which he credits with helping him “tap into the true creative side of my brain” — Vogel spent seven months preparing. He describes this time as “building the brand, building the business plan, putting together a collection of 15 or 20 tracks that were already finished.” Presidents have a list of things they want to accomplish during their first 100 days; Vogel had an eight week chunk of time planned out in advance before he released a single Jauz tune.

He encourages aspiring producers to think in the same meticulous fashion. “What’s your brand?” he queries a hypothetical youngster. “What’s your goal? How many tracks do you have finished? If you put one out and it does well, what’s your follow-up? Do you know where you’re going to put those tracks out? Do you have blogs posting about them? Or are you gonna get someone to share it from your SoundCloud?”

  Just a couple a guys lookin for some trouble somewhere in Austria @thechainsmokers –: @rorykramer

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Though many successful producers break out as masters of a single sound, Vogel wanted Jauz to be more elastic. “My goal was to be able to make music in all different areas but have it all still kind of sound like me,” he explains. “It’s not like. ‘he uses the same bass sounds’ — I don’t, I never do — it’s just the way that I make music on Ableton is different from the way that other people make it. It’s always going to kind of sound like me one way or another.” 

Though he argued with his management about the approach — his team worried it would be hard for fickle listeners to get a bead on him, so maybe they’d stop trying — Vogel persevered. “Maybe it’ll take longer for people to catch on,” he reasoned, “but those fans will be able to follow me in whatever direction I’m going to go.”

He didn’t have to wait long: the first Jauz song arrived in 2014, and his third single, “Feel the Volume,” started to get festival play the same year. “I went to Hard Summer [an electronic music fest in Los Angeles] as a fan, had no expectations,” Vogel says. “‘Feel the Volume’ had maybe come out 10 or 12 days prior. The first act I went to see was Tchami, and he played it.” “No one knew what the f–king track was,” Vogel adds, but he describes the crowd’s reaction as “a fucking eruption.”

“Feel the Volume” scoots along with ’90s house references — a ping pong synth melody, vocal samples — and the kind of machine gun-bass runs that are catnip for a festival audience. The song was picked up for release by Diplo’s Mad Decent label, but even as Vogel found success with this tune , he maintained a commitment to variety, remixing the club pop singer Kiesza, the New York rap collective A$AP Mob, and the Canadian producer Tiga. Add to that his own productions and collaborations: “Squad Out!”, an emphatic, shouty track with nods to electro, “Deeper Love,” where house tropes met with stadium rock and arena electronic fizz, and “Shark Attack,” a glitchy cut that seems like it’s all drop.  

“We had so many tracks on the back-burner, so that was the time — ride that momentum, build it and build it,” Vogel says. “For six or eight months after ‘Feel the Volume,’ we didn’t play any shows, just put out as many tracks as I could, built the the hype, built the hype. And I’ve been on the road ever since.”

  A sea of sharksquad with over 20,000 sharks. That was incredible! Thank you to each and everyone of you for joining me on this amazing journey. We’ve come so far together. (^^^) photo: @ryanhadji

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That long run of live dates included marquee appearances at many of electronic music’s biggest festivals: Ultra (the flagship Miami event as well as an offshoot in Japan) and Tomorrowland, Sun City Festival and Something Wicked, EDC New York and EDC Las Vegas’ main stage. He reached nautical dancing enthusiasts via the Mad Decent Boat Party and Holy Ship!, Halloween-lovers at Chicago’s Freaky Deaky Fest, and rock-heads looking for a little extra bass in their lives at Lollapalooza.

During an on-stage anointing of sorts in February 2016, a stream of guests joined Vogel on stage in L.A.: Skrillex and Diplo, Borgore, Marshmello, and more. By the summer of 2016, he landed his own Vegas residency. And in December, he announced the Off the Deep End tour, a 12-date run “dedicated to the die-hard fans” that wraps up in Atlanta on March 11. 

With a stream of releases behind him proving his versatility, Vogel is now looking to achieve inescapability. “The vocal-driven frontier is the only one I haven’t gone down,” he says. 

“Up until this point, I’ve been writing tracks that DJs will play the drops of mashed up with some big track; they’ll take [DJ Snake and Justin Bieber’s] ‘Let Me Love You’ and mash it up with [Jauz’s] ‘Rock the Party.’ Now my goal is to start writing the records that people will use as the beginning of the mash-up, something that’s so catchy that they’ll use the intro of my track and then build it up into something else. Those are the kind of records I have to start putting out; the records that become songs, not tracks.”

“I don’t want to say I’m maturing, that sounds cliche,” he continues. “But I guess that’s the best way to put it.” 

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Jauz is currently crisscrossing North America on his Off the Deep End tour. Tickets are available here.

Source: Billboard

http://tunecollective.com/2017/02/23/jauz-talks-meteoric-rise-style-hopping-sound-songwriting/

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absence

A lot has happened this past year, from a new DJ in the Top 100 DJMAG, to variety of artists releasing new tracks, new Vlogs from current artists on YouTube, and new record labels created.  I have been absent for a while due to an unforeseen circumstance. In which I’m forever grateful for these producers that have partnered with #FCancer.  Since the beginning of this blog my passion for EDM is huge.  Calvin Harris started my love for this specific genre.  From there I’ve been introduced to many talented variety of music artist from Dannic, Hardwell, JayHardway, Krewella, Tiesto, Alice Wonderland etc.  2016 was the BEST and WORST year of my life. 

As the majority of my Hardwell family and close loved ones know, my mother was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in July 2016.  Chemotherapy was going well but due to her cirrhosis, her situation became complicated and she passed away on December 6th 2016.  During this difficult time I was taking a music course for school in which in led me to experience different live music events. Indeed I attended 3 different DJ sets to earn my A.  During the summer of course many producers are busy all year round but it’s chaotic in the summer. I was lucky enough to experience Bingo Players, Dannic and Dzeko & Torres. Once the set was finished I would go home and finish my mandatory paper the next day. The first month of July was hectic due to two classes during the summer, my mother in and out of hospitals and work.  Leave of absence at work was no problem and my mother did not want me to pause school so I managed to pass my classes.  The week when Dannic was in town, I was lucky enough to meet him thanks to his tour manager. They are so sweet and humble I adore them even more.  I’ve always believed music is a universal language.  Music can help heal, motivate, inspire and mourn.  I had so many emotions that moment, I felt I was such a dork when I met them. I was embarrassed I came 10 minutes late to his set. Dannic is one the producers I admire due to his lyrical choice.  For me lyrics are just as important as the track. Dear Life, Undone and Survivors were one of the few songs that kept my head high during this difficult time.  

In the album Motion created by Calvin Harris, the first track is Faith.  In dedication of my mother, I got this word tatted on my body during her illness.  

Cancer does not discriminate. It does not matter what ethnicity, religion you believe in, or if your wealthy. Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze were well known icons, yet with all the status and access to the number choices of doctors, pancreatic cancer does not care who you are.  

When I stumbled across an article about Hardwell partnering with FCancer, a non profit organization to help be aware of early detection and prevention and to help those who are affected by cancer.  I cried while reading this. After reading which artists are involved, I’m appreciating this genre more.  Its one of my favorite genre coming together with amazing talent, standing up for one cause to help out a community that has united them by this horrible disease. I would want no one to experience this.  I am thankful for Gideon, Daan’s tour manager for the meet and greet.  This happened in the most difficult event of my life. Music will still be a part of me and will continue to help me. With so much violence and hate in this world music and all artists helps spread love and good in the world. Love defeats hate. Faith will always remain during the battle of cancer in this world.

I’m forever grateful for Tiesto, Krewella, Hardwell, Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, TJR, Gareth Emery, Tritonal, Cash Cash, Tommy Trash, Porter Robinson, Madeon, Borgore, Kaskade, Pretty Lights, CEO pf Insomniac Pasquale Rosella and Bingo Players. In honor of Paul Baumer who passed away due to cancer and those who passed away in 2016.

More to come 2017. Bless it be. 

Nancy Polanco