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Celebrating AAPI Members of the Electronic Music Industry

6AM and its community is a wonderfully diverse microcosm of various backgrounds that all share the love for dance music. As May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, 6AM wanted to bring a spotlight to the AAPI artists and dance music industry members that are contributing to our constantly thriving scene. Even with various obstacles and the unfortunate recent aggression towards Asian Americans since the pandemic, there is still a growing talent pool of AAPI artists and industry figures. Apologies in advance to those who we did not get a chance to include in our list and apologies to those who do not necessarily associate themselves as AAPI.

In no particular order, 6AM wanted to bring you this constantly expanding list of AAPI dance music community members.

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Zhu

Zhu Drops “Musical Chairs Mixtape (Vol. 1)”

Today, GRAMMY®-nominated artist ZHU released his new mixtape, Musical Chairs Mixtape (Vol. 1) via Astralwerks. ZHU announced the seven-track mixtape yesterday morning ahead of his headlining set at Lollapalooza last night after having teased the release with a virtual game of musical chairs for fans to play online. Download / stream Musical Chairs Mixtape (Vol. 1) HERE or view the continued mix visualizer HERE. Festivalgoers can get a cassette version of the mixtape at ZHU’s merch pop up today at Congruent Spaces and see him perform at two Lollapalooza aftershows – tonight’s Blacklizt show and tomorrow at Aragon Ballroom, where he’ll be performing with his full band.

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ARC Festival Chicago

ARC Music Festival Debuts in Chicago With Cirez D b2b Adam Beyer, DJ Pierre, Derrick Carter, Luciano, Bob Moses & ZHU

ARC Music Festival will debut on Labor Day Weekend in Chicago’s Union Park, and with it they present a lineup that blends the more underground sounds of electronic music, with a focus on Chicago House, well-known big room Techno names and genre-blurring Electronica artists.

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