ARTISTS

Vancouver-based ANDROMO has been steadily building his career towards becoming one of today’s most intriguing artists. Born in El Salvador, and now residing in Canada, ANDROMO’s music has hit the ear’s of diverse listeners. Charged with emotion, his music blends lush melodies over driving percussion to create a dynamic atmosphere on the dance floor.

As a performer, ANDROMO commands the dance floor. His sets include groovy techno to minimal and tech house. Constantly re-editing tracks using Ableton Live, ANDROMO strives to make every set a unique experience. These efforts have caught the attention of promoters around the world. His Latin roots have seen him play many of the most prestigious venues and events. Over the past few years, ANDROMO has enjoyed numerous gigs across Europe and North America. He was recently booked in Berlin, techno’s undisputed capital of the world, where he performed at Salon Zur Wilden Renate and Sisyphos.

Hailing from Guatemala, Carlos Ortega aka ALÜEN started playing records in The Box Lounge Groove in 2014, a famous Guatemalan bar, where he would one day acquire a monthly residency. As his mixing skills grew, he started playing different venues and parties, imprinting his name in Guatemala’s underground scene.

As ALÜEN’s taste in electronic music evolves, he enjoys bringing versatility to his sets. Expect melodic and groovy sounds like deep house, tech house, afro house, deep tech and progressive, to obscure and abstract minimal and techno. His method and collection brought him to Los Angeles, Goa, Thailand, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Vancouver, where he currently resides.

His journey into music production started in 2017, which eventually had him signing onto labels like Black Eye Records and CubeRec from Guatemala, Integrate Music from Mexico and Rainforest Music from Vancouver. His unique style and evolving groovy minimal sounds have bounced over dance floors around the world. Expect many more to come from ALÜEN.

With its infectious rhythms giving way to hypnotic bass lines, Jared Love’s music builds on a spectrum of influence ranging from Jazz and R&B to early electronica; his is a passion for music that goes beyond just DJing and production.

Love’s story emerges in the early 2010s, in the midst of Vancouver’s burgeoning underground music scene. While dedicating most of his time to musical production, Jared had begun stepping outside of the studio and revealed a talent behind the decks that soon earned him residencies at staples such as Gorg-O-Mish Afterhours and Are You MIA, as well as regular bookings at Open Studios.

Paul Franc is a live composer and performer in the realm of minimal modular music, heavily influenced by the deep and hypnotic rhythms of the Rominimal music genre. Standing out by crafting intricate productions with the Eurorack synthesizer and delivering otherworldly experiences that captivate the senses. He is quickly becoming a innovator in the local electronic music scene.

Obscure textures, abstract percussion, lush chords and melancholy melodies are a few words to describe Paul Franc's sound, yet his live performances are spectacle in themselves. Combining minimalist elements with a deep, immersive atmosphere, he masterfully takes his audience on an auditory journey into uncharted territories, leaving them completely mesmerized by the experience.

Hailing from the vibrant music scene of Vancouver, Paul Franc journey has been marked by iconic live performances as a resident at Vault.

DJing Since 1994 Jon has been establishing himself in the U.S. and Canadian house music scenes and has become a staple in both countries. Back in 1996, He founded Concepts Records, which became one of the front running sources for dance music in the northwest. Jon along with partner Brent Laurence started Tilted Records, a prominent west coast house label which has over 30 releases by artists such as Wesley Holmes, Dj Ali, Miguel Migs, Marques Wyatt, Julias Papp, Jay J, Da Sunlounge, Andy Clockwork, Pattern Drama, Andromo, Jared Love, Moosefly, David Scuba, and many others. Since then, Jon's DJ career has been in full swing. He holds a residency at Ocaso Music Festival in Tamarindo Costa Rica, has played Desert Hearts Festival, and traveled recently all over the U.S., Mexico, Ecuador, and Costa Rica for gigs. Jon has been in the studio as of late making some new music with Pattern Drama out of the NY, Hector Moralez, and Simon Houser releasing under their "Lee Houser" moniker. Jon has releases on Da Way, Savia Park, Tilted Records, Kiko Records, Black Bug, Uniting Souls Music, Late Night Munchies, Mexa Records, Hot-N-Heavy Recordings, Proper Slap, Viva! Recordings, Desert Hearts Records, and Touch Of Class, and Farris Wheel Recordings.

There are few individuals within the underground dance music industry able to match Chris Fortier for both influence and achievement over the last two decades. With a mandate predicated upon the deceptively simple notion of "constant musical evolution", the founder and owner of the globally renowned Fade Records, is not constrained by boundaries, reflected in both the music he plays and creates.

As a production artist, Fortier's portfolio of skills have been crafted and honed through an intimate 20-year knowledge of clubs across the globe's dance-floor capitals – from Tokyo, Melbourne, Mexico City to Budapest and Buenos Aires to residencies at the legendary AAHZ in Orlando in the early 90’s through to New York's Twilo and London's The Cross. Always in demand and prolific in output, a continually rising 400 plus Beatport production credits tell only half of an impressive story. Fortier's remix of Delerium's "Silence", was the first and original remix and sold in excess of one million copies worldwide; while work for John Digweed's Bedrock imprint further cemented an ever-growing reputation alongside the full-length album, "As Long As The Moment Exists" and its follow-up remix album on behemoth Australian imprint, EQ.

Chris' productions have seen him take on the mantle of highly regarded modern producer with releases spanning the underground sound including most recently on Bedrock, Get Physical, Culprit, Selador, Balance, Mooseeka, Tulipa, Maya, Manual, Ground Factory, Maktub, Mindwarp and his own imprint Fade. His remixes and collaborations since 2009 tell their own tale, as Chris remains as integral, relevant and at the leading edge in the Underground as ever. With an innate and immaculate sense of what makes the industry tick, built upon longstanding personal experience, Fortier's musical evolution shows no sign of extinction.