You thought we were done with just astrxl.awards this year? Nah we had to step that s*** up...
ALT-ELECTRONIC
Our alt-electronic section explores various alternative EDM genres making waves in-person and online.

Over-classifying genres is incredibly interesting to me, although I greatly prefer creation of new terms instead of listing several things consecutively...

The sense of community around during the festival was striking, given the dystopian nature of the early pandemic...

Because of Flying Lotus’s nature I knew the visuals at this live show would be postmodern abominations...

You enter this wormhole, the room disappears and you're thrown into a bunch of patterns, and stuff like that. There wasn't a lot of color...

I expected nothing short of perfection when witnessing a Thundercat live set, and that was what I ultimately received...

Originally, it was just cool imagery. We found this vintage bunny on eBay, and it became a studio mascot. Then we said we should just make it the album cover because it's been through the whole ride.

I feel like I have a levity of things that go on. Some people want to talk about serious stuff, some people want to talk about diarrhea, but I want to treat both situations the same in how I approach them...