In The Spotlight: Odesza

One of the bands that is absolutely exploding on to the Electro/Indie scene is Washington duo Odesza. Coming from two separate DJ careers, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight met at WWU and struck up an instant understanding of the finer points of electronic music.

They put together their first  EP, Summer's Gone, and never looked back. With a crisp clean sound that you can jam to, they never have managed to disappoint me yet.

After Summer's Gone, they went on to release My Friends Never Die, and they began to amp up their live show. 

Touring across the US, they began to amass a devoted following, so by the time their first studio album dropped, it was a big deal. 

With some massive remixes, including Pretty Lights and RAC, Odesza have proven that they are here to stay. You can't help but dance a little when you here the clean melodic sound that they are able to produce, and you know then that these guys have got something special. 

Genre Spotlight: Electro Indie

One of the up and coming music genres, Electro Indie has become a staple of indie listeners (or musical hipsters, of which I am one). There have been pioneers in this genre such as Flume and Pretty Lights, but I am going to focus on the lesser known must-haves. 

cln.

Hippie Sabotage

Petit Biscuit

Palastic 

ANDRU

Way more chill than EDM, not as annoying as trap, and music that you jam to, Electro Indie claims the crown of the Electronic family. 

Genre Spotlight: Future Bass

In an electronically saturated music industry, there are few sub-genres that stand out so prolifically as Future Bass. With a new, refreshing sound, Future Bass is the new, well, future. Hopefully you will like what you hear. 

R.O

Nebbra

Ricky Mears

XVII

Troy Boi

With a mix of Trap, Jazz, and Electro Indie, Future is the promising new genre. 

Genre Spotlight: Chill Trap

Lots of people shy away from the idea of trap music, and I can't blame them. Trap at it's best can be annoying and very musically disrupting. But chill trap on the other hand, one of the many sub genres of electronic, is something that flows well and is something you can groove to. Hopefully the music does the talking on this one, and you are convinced not by my words, but by the melodies themselves.  Here are a few of the great chill trap artists. 

Phazz

LeMove

Dr. Fresch




Chiefs




Daktyl

Some of these artists are just regular trap artists who dabble in the genre (mainly Chiefs), but they are all capable of producing some smooth grooves.