hydrophonics' saucey artists

Next time you go to a festival, pick five names from the bottom group of artists listed. I guarantee you’ll find at least one you like, or your money back.

Quick pre-festival research into artists who created original music exposed saucy sounds. Expressive, volatile musicians heading toward high art. Artists with 20% original music who curated a flowing, stylish set anyway.  

The open-concept stage plan by the Hydrophonics festival organizers created stage spacer for underground artists to play their flavor. Stages so low profile I found myself scared and alone more than once on a decent dancefloor. Clean, bass forward soundsystems of the Floasis and DBL Heavy stages were for these saucy artists.

The Denver Incubator team brought a hot, heavy speaker setup to culture bottom of the lineup artists in their classroom setup.

A tented stage with producer professors and everything. As a producer of cheesy, bassy, never-show-to-anyone, garage band music, I got more from those conversations than any youtube video walkthrough I’ve seen. So engaging I almost missed other, upper lineup sets. Incubator organizers worked, communicated, built qr codes, otherwise shared their in festival schooling opportunities. Simple songwriting, sound design, sampling, essential lessons, all live and included in the ticket price. Shared desk space. Nerds in the front row. Education, exposure and a party good enough to keep people from headline acts. Check out what the Incubator group is doing - Incubator Denver

Examples of low lineup hot sauce

• Wyatt Lawson - well curated deep bassy set, great taste in low slow sound. Original sounds tightly worked in new, o so fresh and new, sounds next to a well curated selection of hot tracks. It all sounded well familiar with each other, like the tracks were playing with each other. Bass with empty drum sounds 

• Brotha nature (more well known but new to me) - Find brother nature here - Beatboxing so clean it like its fresh out of the box. No breathing or missed steps, just bassy, beefy bangers. Progressive, genre shifting movement, heavy drops and articulate drum lines. Easily mistaken for studio produced music, especially with the DJ standing next to him. Played to an empty dancefloor, our group of 7 brought the party through the end of the set, a party that should have been much bigger. I'm excited to see Brotha Nature as a part of a group. 

• Ceiratonin - Find Cieratonin here - Solid name, each and every person I mentioned that name to was like “thats gold”. Plays that weird music, y’all like weird music? I should have seen more of this set, it was a boogie. crunchy grit straight outta Tulsa that would fit right into a Denver club set. The effort to create something new in her music is wonderful and tricky and I am hoping to see more.

These bottom of lineup names should be recognized because they’re them banger logs for that hot fire.