For Bay Area DJ Ash Barnes, it’s all about the energy between the dancer and the DJ.    Be it four strangers dancing at a tiny dive bar or 4,000 revelers raving in the Black Rock desert, the goal is the same— to build and maintain the connection between dancer and the DJ.   Stylistically, while Barnes’ influences draw upon multiple genres and his sets may span a wide range— from tech house and crunchy synths to breaks to minimal tech—the vibes are decidedly energetic and the mission is the always the same: get those booties shakin!  Whatever he brings— Barnes’ sets are mixed with a polished and skillful hand in the way only someone with 25 years behind the decks can do.  It is within this vibe that Barnes aims to create a blissful state of oneness—that singular experience that is created through the universal language between the DJ and the dance floor.  
	Through his journey DJ Ash Barnes has helped to create and maintain some amazing underground scene in multiple cities.  Starting off in Hollywood he ran his own weekly house night at Libertine located on the Sunset Strip.  He managed to threw down killer sets at most of the clubs in Hollywood and West Hollywood before moving to the Bay Area almost 10 years ago. 
He now runs the Paradigm Shift collective who throw parties all over San Francisco and Oakland.

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Regarded upon his 2006 arrival as a promising beatmaker looming in the shadows of J Dilla, Madlib, waterfalls and Dabrye, Steven Ellison -- known as Flying Lotus -- nullified all comparisons only two years later with Los Angeles. On that album, his first of five for the Warp label, Ellison distilled a uniquely crisp, spasmodic, and heady sound with elements of hip-hop, avant-garde jazz, IDM, and dubstep. While the abovementioned producers fueled Ellison, he had also been excited as a youngster by the '90s West Coast rap classics that combined programming and live instrumentation. His sound continued to develop as he put his own twist on the approach, recording with a crop of jazz musicians including the indispensable likes of bassist Thundercat and strings master Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. This process began with the turbulent 2010 set Cosmogramma and peaked in terms of acclaim in 2014 with You're Dead!, which crashed the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and spawned the Kendrick Lamar collaboration "Never Catch Me," a Grammy nominee for Best Dance Recording. Ellison devoted a few years to various forms of film work and the operation of his revered Brainfeeder label, and returned in 2019 with Flamagra, his second consecutive album to top Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart.

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