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Premiere and Digging Deeper with uhnknwn

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Summer might be on its way out, but We Are The Brave are definitely not! Alan Fitzpatrick heads up one of the UK’s much-loved underground labels of the moment and they continue to deliver release after release with club bombs and festival anthems to remember from Skream’s ‘Poison’, Alan’s ‘We Do What We Want’ and Gary Beck’s ‘Just One More’. Not forgetting a special collab with Sasha and a Trevino remix. With his crazy summer schedule, Alan has been smashing out the label’s finest tunes, from the dancefloors of Ibiza to the muddy fields of Creamfields.

Some crazy talent is out there, and We Are The Brave has showcased some of them in recent months, and the next release from uhnknwn is one for the books.

“uhnknwn is a brand-new project from an emerging talent who I’ve been impressed with for a couple of years. It’s all very hush hush and mysterious who he is, but I like that. It creates a certain type of creative space and freedom, and I really get why that is important” says Alan

uhnknwn’s debut Alpha in the Warm EP comes complete with an Alan Fitzpatrick remix, and is now available for pre-order via Beatport. Don’t try looking up uhnknwn on social media, for he doesn’t have any and never will. uhnknwn aims to remain unknown — hence the name — despite having released on a lot of labels in the past under different aliases.

With all that said, we thought there was no better way to learn more about this enigmatic figure than with an exclusive track premiere and a digging deeper feature.

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Digging Deeper with GRAZZE

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GRAZZE started his musical career as a DJ at the aged of 14, after having studied music theory and piano. With a degree in sound engineering, GRAZZE specializes in areas such as production, mixing, mastering or guitar and percussion in music ĂĄrea as well. With regards to his skills as a music producer, he is working with major labels like Universal, Sirup Music, Baroque or Tiger Rec., having caused a high impact and has even entered the top 10 in well-known music lists like iTunes, DJ Mag and Beatport, where he has attained Top 1 with his song “Blow your mind” receiving support from important media like 40 Principales (The most important Radio Station in Spain).

Since 2012 he is working in sound production and technique in broadcasting companies such as KISS FM, Hit FM or Unika FM (Spanish Radio Stations), being an official DJ of several radio shows like “Don’t Stop DJ” (Hit FM) taking part in 4EVERY1 Festival 2015, “U Rockz Radio Show” (Unika FM), nominated “Best Radio Show” in Vicious Music Awards 2016 by Vicious Magazine and his new radio show 2017/2018 “Sounds of GRAZZE ” at LOCA FM where he also works as a House Channel Manager (+100.000 listeners per month).

He’s currently working on his own artistic projects besides other national and international recognized artist and major labels. It is with all this in mind that we decided to catch up with GRAZZE to dig deeper into everything going on in his busy life.

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Digging Deeper: Joris Voorn Talks Spectrum, ADE, Photography, Skating and His Dream Gig Location

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After gradually building this acclaimed concept across multiple parties throughout Europe and his weekly radio show, Joris Voorn has brought the acclaimed Spectrum event series to North America this month for a six-date tour that kicked off last night in Chicago. That date will be followed by nights in New York, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal and Miami.

Whilst having already played in these major cities for many years, with Spectrum Joris Voorn is now more excited than ever to invite his fans into new very cool intimate and unique locations they have never seen him play before. So far, Joris Voorn Spectrum parties throughout Europe have seen him reach deeper into his music collection, pulling out a lot of his favorite classics and lesser-known gems alongside the best new material, and the results have been nothing short of spectacular, displaying his eclectic approach to each new show.

We caught up with a busy Joris Voorn shortly after he landed in Chicago for his first Spectrum gig, looking to dig deeper into the concept, possible future gigs on the West Coast, his relationship with ADE and some of his personal hobbies.

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Digging Deeper with Camilo Franco

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We had a chat with HEART Ibiza resident and producer Camilo Franco, about his Ibiza experiences, how he made it there and the scene in his native Colombia.

Check out what he had to say below.

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Digging Deeper with POPOF

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Deeperfect’s Synaptic EP is a collaboration effort from two heavy hitting producers. Form label boss, POPOF, is a bonafide legend in the underground house and techno scene. He has been pumping out hits for more than ten years on the most important and genre defining labels, such as Cocoon, Truesoul, Bedrock and Hot Creations. On the other side of this meeting of creative minds is Stefano Kosa, an up-and-coming talent from Milan who has made a big name for himself with his music on important labels like Stereo Productions, Elrow and of course POPOF’s label Form.

One of the most downloaded artists in his category, POPOF is in very high demand for his remixes and has worked for famous artists such as Depeche Mode, Chemical Brothers, Moby, Booka Shade, Vitalic, Tiga, Maetrik, Martin Solveig and many more.

We took the occasion to sit down with the Parisian to talk about the EP and the whirlwind summer he is having.

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Digging Deeper and Exclusive Premiere with Kaz James

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Kaz James’ summer is heating up, with a new single now out on Nic Fanciulli’s Saved Records (available on Beatport and Spotify), as well as recently making his debut on Dennis Ferrer’s Objektivity – the only artist to be releasing on the label this summer.

Known for his driving, emotive productions Kaz James has further releases scheduled for the summer on Glasgow Underground and Circus Recordings.

Earlier this year, Kaz supported Guy Gerber for his 5 million dollars RUMORS Coachella after party and has returned to Scorpios, Mykonos for his fourth year as Sunday resident. It’s a really exciting time for Kaz, so we found it fitting to have a chat with him to dig into all the hard work behind this explosive summer, as well as to premiere his new single out on Saved.

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Digging Deeper with XtetiQsoul

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XtetiQsoul is one of the rapidly rising stars on the Afro House scene, releasing on top labels in the genre such as MoBlack, Afrocentric, Nulu, Soulistic Music, Iklwa Brothers Music and more.

We grab a chat to find out more as he returns to the Afrocentric label with his new single “Better Places.”

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Digging Deeper with Demi aka ASOY

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At their height, SOS were one of the original power trios in electronic music. Long before the likes of Apollonia (or dare we say, those wretched Swedish characters arrived on the scene), these guys were throwing it down in some of the world’s best nightclubs week after week, and even contributed to the Essential Mix as far back as 2006.

Although the boys have since gone their separate ways, Demi, Omid 16B and Desyn are all still active in electronic music – with Demi in particular a busy man of late. Now producing under a new, more techno-focused alias, ASOY he’s arguably making the best music he’s made for quite some time.

We caught up with him recently for an extensive, thought-provoking and always interesting chat. Without further ado, here’s what went down


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Digging Deeper with Markantonio

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Markantonio is one of the leading and renewed DJs of the international techno scene. A flagship artist in his native Naples, Markantonio started playing with decks at the tender age of fifteen, and only four years later his talent exploded at the feet of Vesuvius! In then late ’90s Markantonio’s name and music spread around and he became a leading fixture on Naples’ most exciting parties, as well as labels such as Recycled Loops, Shake Rec, Tortured, Conform, Superbra, and more.

Fast-forward twenty years to today and Markantonio has still got it. In the decades that have passed he has played a pivotal role in furthering the techno scene of Napoli and Italy, giving a first platform to many of the artists that have since emerged from his home city.

The new release on Markantonio’s label AnalyticTrail is a three track techno EP and a collaboration between the label boss himself and Atroxx. This EP, entitled Octave Shift, is a showcase example of why Markantonio has maintained his cutting edge status for all this time.

With so much history to talk about, 6AM had an expansive chat with the producer and label boss to discuss his story, the influence of his label over the years and much more

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Digging Deeper with Fred Everything

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Summer is looking glorious for Canada’s Fred Everything, and not only thanks to the release of his new LP.

Long Way Home marks Fred’s fourth artist album, and the first to be released on his own label Lazy Days Recordings. Out June 21, 2018, the album indicates his return to his hometown of Montreal, after 8 years in San Francisco, and also marks a come back to the LP format after ten years.

For the first time, each track was produced in Fred’s home studio, which provided an ideal environment for the revisiting of musical styles that Fred had not been able to explore on EP and Remix formats. The twelve-track album travels through a variety of tempos and rhythms, including broken and electro beats, a clear ’80s disco influence, as well as dub, all embraced by a balearic/coastal feel, inspired by recent travels to Mallorca, Ibiza and Croatia.

Collaborators on the album include Sio from South Africa; who Fred remixed last year on Atjazz Records Company, Jinadu from the UK; known for his many collaborations including Searching produced by Fred in 2015, which became a big hit thanks to the Deetron remix, Franky Selector; an old friend and collaborator from Montreal on vocoder duty and Hot Toddy (Crazy P) who added guitar on the summery disco number “Same Old Sound.” Lauer (Tuff City Kids), Andre Lodemann and Ian Pooley have all  been confirmed for remix duties for the singles.

Following our premiere of one of the remixes from the album, we decided to have a more in-depth chat with Fred to find out more about his time in San Francisco, the reasons behind his move back to Canada and what this album really means to him both personally and artistically.

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