Akumen is a producer, DJ, and co-founder of Made to Move, a monthly event and live stream radio show, featuring DJs from Southern California and abroad bringing a fresh underground sound to LA. Akumen's emotive productions - released on labels including 12 Inches Deep and Low Recordings - range from uplifting and euphoric to brawny with a melancholy undertone, but always with captivating atmosphere and energy. 

As a DJ, Akumen fuses house, breaks, and rhythmic techno for a high energy set, appearing regularly across LA at bars, clubs, warehouses or streaming monthly on virtualpublic.net. For his Nativecast mix, Akumen takes us on a steadily building, hypnotic journey of chunky electro, acid, industrial and old school rave sounds.

Nativecast // 005 — Akumen

Lucid Distraction has long developed a passion for electronic music coming from the UK, Chicago, Detroit, and Berlin areas. As a DJ since 2011, he has developed an ear for a very dynamic sound, ever evolving, but still staying true to it’s roots. 

Far from the traditional his style can be characterized as a progressive take on the electro, house, break, ghetto tech, and other genres incorporating driving baselines along with acidic synths and grooving drums. He does not feel tied to just one genre. Lucid can be a bit of a wildcard and jack of all trades with unique and vast vibes surfacing in his releases. 

Deciding to branch out and start realizing his own productions in 2019, he has strayed far from the traditional and 2024 seems to be finding him placement on forward thinking labels throughout the world. He has also started his own electronic music collective, party, and mix series based in Downtown Los Angeles called Native Boundaries.

He has spun legendary LA staples such as Sound Nighclub, The Viper Room, Pattern Bar, Lokels Only, and many more as well as been signed to international labels like Steve Bug's Berlin based Sublease Music, Portugal based Ovelha Trax, Columbia based Bogoture, London based Hyperdome and more.

kuci.org radio host / yoga instructor / I love

House/Techno/Trance
Los Angeles


Made to Move:
1st Saturdays on Dublab 6pm-8pm
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For radio promos, and exclusive mixes email: akumenmusic(a)gmail.com


Akumen (he/him) is an LA  producer, DJ, and co-founder of Made to Move, a monthly event and live stream radio show, featuring DJs from Southern California and abroad. Working out of his home studio,  Akumen produces "atmospheric, breaky and lush cuts...to high octane, full-on-rave" tracks that can be found on his Bandcamp. He has released music on local labels, Low Recordings, Juke Bounce WERK, Gyration Stations as well as international label La Bonne Musique. As a DJ, Akumen mostly spins house, breaks, and rhythmic techno for a high energy set.. You can catch him DJing at bars, clubs, warehouses or streaming monthly on dublab.com.

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Native Boundaries is an LA based label, mix, and party series spotlighting fresh takes on hard, heavy rave music by @luciddistraction. The label is driven by a vision of melting the boundaries of culture and place to expose listeners to the sounds of Berlin, Chicago, Detroit, and London with a new school twist as interpreted by artists from all over the world. 

Born as a minimal and deep house label in 2021, Native took a decisive turn into heavier territory in late 2022 with EP releases from the fast-rising Etari and label head Lucid Distraction, shortly followed by a 21-track VA featuring the likes of Osutin, Lord Pusswhip, Mezer, Karawai, Mister Sticktalk, In2Stellar, Snarexx, DJ Simlocked and more. These releases earned support from Filth, Inc., Kernel, Moskalus, 6AM, Crazed Behavior, Les Yeux Orange and many more. Native Boundaries has established itself as a respected curator of parties and mixes that push the boundaries of experimentation in the Los Angeles underground, uniting fans of electro, juke, breaks, acid and more.

Acid is the message.

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Releases on:
DOPEC as Liminal
Subbass Drones Compilation
Internet Recordings
Emerald Doreen
Ketzerpop