Xpel Muzik, Abducted, LOT49, Dim Mak, Polydor
Sometimes I do music n stuffz.

Beau Damion is a producer and creative technologist who builds music the way most people build memories: layered, emotive, and always in motion. Classically trained but shaped by the electronic underground, Beau started releasing music in the mid-2000s and developed a reputation for blending genres and rethinking how electronic performance could work.

For years he toured, performing with custom software, real-time visuals, and controllers he programmed, creating shows that sat somewhere between DJ set and live improvisation. His label Xpel Muzik became a home for boundary-pushing artists across house and progressive styles, and his own work has appeared on labels from the US, UK, and beyond.

Today Beau creates primarily under his Japan-based @projectdai (ダイ), a space built for experimentation with genre, software, and new audio workflows. The project acts as a outlet and creative playground, shifting between Vocaloid, Synthesizer V, and Beau’s own production techniques.

Beau’s work continues to evolve, but the through-line remains the same: curiosity, emotion, and a drive to create something honest.

All Inquiries: contact(at)xpelmuzik.com

Gelatine and intestines, on the cover of a magazine

Join P Bear, Flavour, and Mr. Smitty as they dive into a wonderful world of whispers and arm snaps, all while getting serious about the films of Steven Seagal!

Melanie Martinez's creative drive and talents have always distinguished her from other musicians. After releasing her platinum-certified 2015 debut album, Cry Baby—which reached No. 1 on Billboard's alternative albums chart and has amassed over two billion streams worldwide —she conceived and directed a video for each song on the album. These mini-movies traced the traumas and insecurities experienced by the album's character, Cry Baby.
 
Melanie’s sophomore album and film, K-12, is another ambitious triumph. K-12's music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12's universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with metaphor, songs address the struggle to find a place to belong—including within friendships, the physical world and romantically—even when fitting into society feels like an uphill battle.
 
To accompany the album, Martinez wrote and directed a 90-minute movie (also called K-12) that incorporates the album's music and mirrors the themes and characters introduced. Filmed on location in Budapest, Hungary, the movie focuses on Cry Baby (portrayed by Martinez) and a class of students who find themselves trapped in a horror house-like residential school. As they experience the usual grade school rites of passage—a lunch room food fight, the embarrassment of gym class, a romance with nefarious intentions, courses taught by checked-out teachers— they have to figure out a way to escape.

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