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Dancing in a field with your friends, watching a sunset, falling in love. These are the things that keep us sane in this crazy world, and these are what this album is about. 7 years in the making, “Esoterra”, the debut album from Philly's own 5AM Trio, aims to bring an organic flavor into electronic music. Emphasizing patience in songwriting and the journey of an evolving track - something dwindling within this musical climate - 5AM Trio pulls inspiration from jam, bass, jazz, glitch, downtempo, and beyond to create what will mark a stand-out album in both the bass and jam worlds.

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5AM Trio - Esoterra

This should really be called 11.8k Gems, but better late than never!

I'm so grateful for all of you listening out there, and I took all my gratitude and pressure cooked it into a 30 minute mix of unreleased tunes. The vibe of the past few years for me has been heavy, yet soulful. Mellow, yet hype. I tried to reflect that in this mix. :)

Abbreviated tracklist:
5AM x Homies - ID

Full tracklist pending...

Thank you for your patience <3

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10K Gems

After 3 long years, my newest 3-track EP, Buffering is here! Buffering is an homage to the heaviness of waiting for something to change, waiting for the right thing to say. It also represents my own efforts to develop the heavier side of my sound. This one includes a long awaited collab with Thought Process and the title track features ZONE Drums & Tygris has significant weight to it. 

Thanks for waiting :)

Mastered By Keota
Artwork by me

Buffering

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5AM - EST

Shouts to my brother @thought_process_music

After 3 long years, my newest 3-track EP, Buffering is here! Buffering is an homage to the heaviness of waiting for something to change, or waiting for the right thing to say. It also represents my own efforts to develop the heavier side of my sound. This one includes a long awaited collab with Thought Process and the title track features ZONE Drums & Tygris has significant weight to it. 

Thanks for waiting :)

5AM x Thought Process - Simian

I feel kinda fly, standing next to you :)

Thundercat - Dragonball Durag (5AM Flip)

One beautiful fall day, a wild 5AM, McWavy & ZONE Drums appeared to turn a happy little beat into a happy little song, and “Orange Sunshine” was born! We wrote some lyrics together, arranged it, and tracked some keyboard and saxophone solos to bring it home. We wanted to channel sunlight and good vibes with this tune and we hope it brings a little more light into your life, no matter what season it is :) ⛄️🌷🌞🍁
@zonedrums
@mcwavymusic

Orange SUnshine

Orange Sunshine

Bandcamp DL

Orange Sunshine Ft. ZONE Drums & McWavy

Feelin all the warm fuzzies because This Song is Sick just dropped an exclusive premiere of my track Feelin w/ Maya Elise! 
Drums - @ZONEdrums
Guitar - Keith Wadsworth of @waxfuture
Trumpet - @st4rfox
Bass - @Tygrisbass
Vocals - Maya Elise

Aperture EP is my most ambitious attempt at leveling up the musicianship of my project while maintaining the sound design. It’s a new exploration of syncopated rhythms and full spectrum bass design , as well as a continuation of my creative journey, playing with themes of light, emotion, and expansion through the introduction of my own singing and songwriting as well as that of Maya Elise on Feelin.

Drums - @ZONEdrums
Guitar - Keith Wadsworth of @waxfuture
Vocals - Maya Elise
Trumpet - @st4rfox
Bass - @Tygrisbass

Aperture

5AM - Feelin w/ Maya Elise

"Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow, for even today, I still arrive." 
“Arrive”, the first single from my forthcoming 3-track EP and the last tune on my 10k Gems mix.
Ft. the voice of Ram Dass, reminding us to remain present to watch the moment unravel before us.

Epiphany

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Arrive

Deep in the mountains of Philadelphia, resides a colossal being made of interlocking bass frequencies. As it awakens, a seismic blast is unleashed. 
Devastation ensues, and there's only one thing to do - Get Down.

Artwork by 5AM
Mastered by @mindex

Get Down

Get Get Down

Huge thanks for 15,000 followers and counting! This Gems mix series has been so meaningful to my artistic journey and I can't thank yall enough for being here for it. To celebrate, here's 30 more minutes of unreleased!

Tracklist:
ID
ID
5AM x Tygris - ID
5AM x Duffrey - ID
Call my Name
Mind on You
Clint Beastwood
Lazarus
ID
See Me

Artwork made in collaboration with AI. Still debating whether that was a good idea aesthetically but I do love the concept.

Thanks for glistening, keep it glitchy! 💎

💎 15k Gems 💎

Denver has always felt like less of a city and more of a force of nature propelling this project forward. Nowhere was this more clear than at 5AMily & Friends at Meow Wolf on June 8th. You guys showed up in full force and got absolutely feral in ways you had to be there to comprehend.

As a thank you for helping us feel unstoppable, we're releasing soundboards from both sets here and on Bandcamp!

DL on Bandcamp!

Live From Meow Wolf - Not Chill Set

With the 5AM Trio project we've always been exploring the balance of the digital and the organic as we blend electronic and live elements in our arrangements. Technology is a song about striking that balance.

This tune was originally created together with the Trio using live looping, and our goal was to maintain that live energy even as I embellished the sound design and songwriting over time. The result is a glitch-hop tune that dabbles in the darker side of psychedelic jam and can go in many directions in a live setting.

The line "his vision was limited only by technology" really inspired us because technology can limit us, through distraction and by giving us a paralyzing amount of options if we're not disciplined, so it's  about honing in and striking that balance while embracing all the gifts technology has to offer.

Technology

5AM Trio - Technology

compilation vol: 7

New Horizons Ft. ZONE Drums

So with the 5AM Trio, we've been talking a lot about how to make more trap-style tunes to play in our sets. One day I was at the bouldering gym and a marimba melody popped into my head along with a break-beat style drum groove and thought "ooh that's hot", so I ran home and sketched-up the initial idea for "Heat". After jamming on it a bit with the Trio, as it often does, it turned from a simple, singular idea into a dynamic journey through trap, house, and breaks that will be really fun to explore in future live sets.

Utility bill getting expensive? Let this tune heat up your space :)

Thanks for listening!

Artwork by 5AM
Mastered by 5AM also

5AM Trio - Heat

Grind

First Attempt (5AM Remix)

As we journey through the Haze, we remember home. This release is deeply rooted in dubstep and trap, but uses those roots as a launch-pad to the outer realms of musicality. As we adventure from a small basement studio in Philadelphia to hazy dance-floors around the country, this EP documents that journey through sound, exploring the intersections of bass music with house, jazz, world music, and idm through searing guitar riffs, ethereal synths and powerful drums, and is definitely the closest we've ever been to realizing the vision of this project.

5AM Trio - Haze

5AM Trio - Home

Proud to present my set from the booking of my dreams, Tipper and Friends Suwanee 2025 💚

For top secret reasons, my 5:20pm set time was left blank / unannounced on the flyer for Friday, but I still walked on stage to thousands of people trusting the curation that T&F had put forward, and getting tf down to my tunes. Speaking of tunes this set features 7 unheard tunes, and many unreleased tunes or VIPS, representing the most new music I've ever prepared for a set :) I can't wait to finish and release them and play them in sets for years to come.

Massive thanks to the entire T&F crew and community for believing in me and making this the best festival experience I’ve ever had as an artist. I'll be seeing many of you in just a few days at Resonate Festival!

Photo by Julian Deroeux (Insta-dead.leaf.arts)

5AM @ Tipper and Friends Suwannee 2025

5AM & Tygris join forces once again to unleash a 2-Track EP of epic proportions. Right between the Melodic Bass Nebula and the Glitch-Hop Galaxy, "Recon" is music to bump in your spaceship as you explore distant worlds.

Bandcamp

5AM x Tygris - High Beams

5AM x Tygris - Transient

So so proud to present "Rise", the first single off the upcoming debut 5AM Trio album, “Esoterra”. A departure from my more glitch/downtempo style, It started as a simple song over a 4-on-the-floor beat in a small bedroom in Philly. Then one day at a Trio show in Denver someone turned on the disco ball at the perfect moment, babies were made, and the rest was history. The track evolved into a jammier arrangement, highlighting Keith's dazzling guitar chops in the final section to take it to the stratosphere. Rise is out now on all platforms, DL on Bandcamp!

Keys / Production - Sam Andrus / 5AM
Drums - Aaron Harel
Guitar - Keith Wadsworth

Mastering - 5AM (Full album versions will be mastered by Mindex)

Rise

In keeping with the general musical theme of fusion on "Esoterra", "Unknown" is a track that tows the line between glitch hop and folk. This tune is meant to sound like a message in a time capsule - a message that none of us know what's going on or how life is "supposed" to be lived. I've always believed that it's the blind leading the blind out here - but that it's through living that we define and bring meaning to life.

Unknown

Go talk to a tree - make friends with it :)

Sprout

So stoked to release "Encompass", which is a journey of a tune, a track equal parts heavy and jazzy. One day in practice we were jamming on this future bass sketch with a double-time 2nd drop switch-up, when the idea for the fast chorus riff popped into my head. It was pretty ambitious, but Keith and I felt it would be really cool if we could swing it. Between the chorus melody line and Aarons blazing-fast dnb drumming in the 2nd half, this track has pushed the limits of our abilities as a band, as well as my own personal keyboard abilities. Not only is this our tribute to bands like Chon and Polyphia, it's really just our first forray into that sound, which we hope to explore more further on future releases.

Encompass

Do you ever? "Drift" is the final single off "Esoterra" and it's out now!
This was one of my first attempts to bring together the songwriting and jam flavors of Papadosio with the lush, glitchy sound design of Koan Sound, and after many years of finessing the details, and with the help of Aaron on drums and Keith on guitar, it's also one of the closest attempts to do just that. 

"Esoterra" is out on all platforms Nov 18th!

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Drift

Dancing in a field with your friends, watching a sunset, falling in love. These are the things that keep us sane through this crazy journey of life, and these are what this album is about. 7 years in the making, “Esoterra”, the debut album from Philly's own 5AM Trio, aims to bring a much needed organic flavor into electronic music. Emphasizing patience in songwriting and the journey of an evolving track, something dwindling within electronic music - 5AM Trio pulls inspiration from jam, bass, jazz, glitch, downtempo, and beyond to create what will mark a stand-out album in both the bass and jam worlds. 


Glisten

Eye Dropper

Earthtones

Welcome to Esoterra. A live electronic album 7 years in the making, aiming to bring a organic flavor into electronic music, made alongside my brothers in 5AM Trio, Aaron/ ZONE Drums on Drums and Keith Wadsworth on Guitar. This particular track, The Bend, started as a bass banger with a sort of DnB 2nd drop, but then as I felt the track needed one last piece to tie it together something about it had me feeling called to write lyrics, which I did for 3 other tunes on the album.

As a whole, Esoterra is inspired by nature, and the endless search for balance. Each of these tracks is its own unique journey, venturing into jam, bass, jazz, glitch, downtempo, and beyond, so strap in, keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times, and enjoy the ride!

The Bend

My Submission for the Tipper and Friends Nocturnal Edition DJ Mix Competition. It's a journey that includes many of my biggest inspirations in hip-hop beats and breaks along with a few forthcoming originals. 

Savta x 5am  - Surveillance State
5am - Peace Mode
Ming. FS - The Human Condition
Welder - Valeez
Bonobo - Noctuary
Himuro Yoshiteru - Himu Sanpo
Pete Rock - Tru Masta (acapella)
Diversa - Wonderlust
Insightful - Allah
Alan Watts Lecture
Drews Theory - Bounce
DJ Cam No Competition
5AM - Synapse 
Steve Miller Band- Fly Like An Eagle (5AM Remix)

5AM's Humble Submission for Tipper and Friends Nocturnal Edition

I try to keep my head down and not pay too much attention to numbers or reception, as I think those can distract and displace one's priorities, but also because sometimes it can be downright overwhelming. Once in a while I look up and see people listening all around the world and just feel a gratitude so deep and poignant that the only thing I can think to do to process it is just make more music. So with that said, here's a thank you mix of some of my favorite originals from the past few years along with some brand new material. It's quite a journey. The mix, and this whole creative endeavor that I'm oh so grateful to have all 5,555+ of you along for :)

Tracks
5AM x Shapesift - Pine Needles
Peel Back
Vibe
Nodes
Supa ft. St4rfox + Gaddy
Still ft. Eviali
Blessin it ft. Dan Rome
Aspects
Ponder x 5AM - Shuhasu
<3

5K Gems

In January 2019 I hit the studio with ZONE Drums and @Tygrisbass for a 3-day music marathon. The aim was to collaboratively make massive strides on a couple new tunes, dial in existing tunes for performance, and capture some video of the results. The mission was a success, and thus the first Trio Transmission was born, a live take on my tune "Supa" blended into a brand new Trio WIP, "Concentrated".

Here's the single-shot video by Rivkin Collective 
https://www.facebook.com/5ammedia/videos/788300348187861/
Please watch in HD and share if you dig it!

Thanks for @st4rfox and @GaddyMusic for additional instrumentation on "Supa".

Trio Transmission 1 - Supa > Concentrated

fanlink.to/lookoutep

The fusion is finally complete. 
In the space between the sands of time, there exists a field of groovy potentiality. These like-minded explorers have harnessed the quantum realm to inject sonic paint throughout the gaps, filling them with colorful, abstract sounds unique to their home planets, in order to regenerate the life-force of their new one. The journey has been long and the travelers are weary, but now that this transcendental object has been unleashed; look out.

5AM X Pluto Era - Lookout

It's 5AM Somewhere 🏖️
Instagram.com/5ammusic_
Ableton lessons: https://www.5ammusic.com/lessons
Merch: www.5ammusic.com/merch
Support: Patreon.com/5ammusic

US bookings: sam@pivotal-agency.com
International bookings: info@feellifemusic.com

5AM is Philly-based producer, musician, graphic designer, and creative magnate Sam Andrus. Once a student at the Rhode Island School of Design burning the midnight oil in the studio with a soundtrack always in the background, Sam has since forged his inspirations from jazz fusion, funk, and future beats into a style of bass music known to captivate audiences with a spectacle of mesmerizing detail and high resolution sound design. 5AM’s music merges worlds as it expertly weaves electronic production and live instrumentation through creative processing and meticulous mixing. To bring his journey full circle, Sam has expanded his project to form the 5AM Trio, a collaboration complete with live drumming from ZONE Drums (Aaron Harel) and guitar, bass, and pads from Keith Wadsworth. 5AM has soared to new heights, becoming the first electronic music producer to perform at the historic Kings Theatre in New York City for the sold-out Tipsgiving. 5AM is now a seasoned performer who's shared the stage with Tipper, Shpongle, Jade Cicada, kLL sMTH, Detox Unit, Kalya Scintilla, Random Rab, and more, and lived and built strong roots up and down the east and west coasts of the US.

~5AM~

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