September 2008, deep in the shadows of Amarillo’s Wolflin Neighborhood, an event was happening like no other in the Texas Panhandle. Electric Wolfe, 16 years old at the time, was in the midst of a surge of electronic dance music in “Yellow City”. Not at any full-fledged venue, whose clientele demanded Country, Western, and mainstream Rock, but in the half-empty back house of a suburban home. To EW, it was eye opening. “We were all outcasts, and suddenly- there was a community. I fell into this family, I found these people that were doing the same things- hosting shows, experimenting, playing with the form and the music.” It was there that Electric Wolf performed for the first time in front of people, and to him and the 70-some-others crowding the room, it clicked. 

After experimenting and performing in scenes around Austin, Colorado Springs, and Midland, EW moved through influences like Benny Benassi, Crystal Castles, and Steve Aoki learning from what was happening around him and synthesizing his own individual sound. Shows in Amarillo were getting larger and more popular - venues like the notoriously haunted Nat Ballroom, The Wreck Room, The 806, and the now shuttered live entertainment branch of 12052 Productions were hosting shows. Collaborative sets, with up to four DJs at a time, began experimenting with tonal parallels between musical keys and the Chakras of the human body. 

In 2012, after analyzing a new influence, Tonic, Electric Wolfe was inspired to learn his craft to a greater degree. Passing through the production process one step at a time; from recording to mixing and mastering his own material, EW has grown into a formidable one-man band in the Amarillo region.

For now, Electric Wolfe is interested in continuing to cultivate the local Amarillo scene, bringing back the playful variety that has long been lost to the mainstream. He continues to experiment with sounds and performances, keeping a constant eye on improving his own work and spreading his influence to more places than just locally.

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