We’re very excited to be teaming up with our good friends over at NSW Presents in for a new quarterly event series in Chicago!
If you live in the area we hope you’ll join us for the first installment, welcoming our longtime collaborators and friends 5AM Trio and Maxfield back to the Windy City.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for support announcements and more!
Meet the artists:
5AM Trio
https://soundcloud.com/5am-beats
Pulling influences from EDM, funk, hip-hop, jazz and beyond, Philly-based producer and keyboardist 5AM is no stranger to fusion. Whether it be jazz fusion, or the fusion of high fidelity electronic music with live instrumentation. To expand on this vision, the 5AM Trio employs the dextrous drumming of Aaron Harel (ZONE Drums) and the guitar wizardry of Keith Wadsworth (Wax Future). The Trio have soared to new heights recently, having shared the stage with acts as diverse as Papadosio, Clozee, Lab Group, Break Science, Lotus, and Tiedye Ky, and have built strong roots throughout the festival scene, playing festivals like Elements, Summerdance, Sonic Bloom and Secret Dreams and countless more.
Maxfield
https://soundcloud.com/jake-maxfield
For audiences, Maxfield music strikes that critical balance between provoking thought and motivating movement. Maxfield uses an intergalactic imagination to create sonic contortions and space age thematics that challenge the intellect, while at the same time setting down a physical groove that’s impossible to ignore.
The Boston-based producer generally chooses not to adhere to trends in electronic songwriting. Instead, he indulges a wandering creativity that blurs the already hazy distinctions between sub-genres of electronic music. Whether he’s writing a seven-minute symphonic story or a glitch-laden dance floor wrecker, Maxfield’s willingness to experiment distinguishes him and leads to one-of-a-kind compositions.
Jake Maxfield (Maxfield) attended Berklee College of Music to cultivate his prolific skill with the guitar. Once there, though, the right combination of music, moments, and people soon found him studying electronic music and the technology behind it. Although Jake will still sometimes incorporate his own guitar riffs into his songs, raw, mechanized sound design is his specialty. Still, in funky bass lines and dramatic melodic flourishes one can hear the echoes of Jake’s instrumental upbringing.
More support acts TBA!
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