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Beat Connection
In summer of 2008—during that first flush of youthful "holy shit I don't live with my parents anymore…”—Jordan Koplowitz met Reed Juenger and together, they began making next-level Balearic beats. The fresh-faced duo rose to prominence as house DJs before turning their attentions to searing original compositions. Beat Connection summon up the mundane things in life, the things that we pretend don't matter but the stuff that keeps everyone going; the first sunny day, getting the girl, slacking off, partying…Theirs is the sound of absolute indulgence, because the world is an incoherent jumble of perception and we all pass on eventually.  So let’s have a good time and not worry too much—Saturday night always becomes Sunday morning.

U
Born in 1987, formed in 2010, U is comprised of Jeffrey A. Johnson and Travis B. Coster, two Washington natives who reside in Seattle. Utilizing an assemblage of pedals, unorthodox sampling techniques, and other traditional instruments (“the guitar”, “a voice”), they create jumbled tapestries of found sounds and sonic junk that results in a loud, beat-heavy mess of deconstructed noise and pounding rhythms, unveiling a shining diamond amidst the aural detritus. In a cultural epoch marked by perpetual nostalgia and recycling of dead trends, U deconstruct traditional notions of nostalgia, creating disjointed, collaged soundscapes of the past and present; this is oblique concrete. Like the name suggests, U are indeed unfamiliar (ungoogleability; conundrum-inducing pronouns) and yet entirely familiar, evoking particles of familiar noise and provoking recurrent funk feelings.

ICUH8N
ICUH8N is only the latest alias for one of Northern Washington's busiest bedroom recorders (previously he's gone by Good Brains and Graceland). A contemporary of Cascadian juke-jockey Cedaa and a longtime collaborator of U.S.F.'s, here, ICUH8N interpolates everything from Witch House ominous-ness to more exuberant electronic stylings in one prismatic package.