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Q&A: COALCHELLA CREATORS

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COALCHELLA 2018 Written by: Zebrina Garcia We've all heard of Coachella but have you heard of COALCHELLA? Built on the sandbox video game, Minecraft, the spontaneous group of individuals who brought you the iconic Minecraft Birthday Party , presents a new innovated way of bringing live DJ sets to a bigger audience. Composed of dynamically built stages, the event exhibits a wide variety of monuments and interactive structures for hundreds of visitors who want to experience what an online show is truly like. You can expect to catch sets from a brilliant selection of artists such as IRL festival headliners Electric Mantis , ANAMANAGUCHI , and Y2K to recognizable SoundCloud natives like quickly, quickly , warpstr , or William Crooks . The roster is just as insane as the realm itself. But to take this URL fest a step further, visual artists OM_NEB ,  Elena Fortune ,  mushbuh , and kikkujo are doing merch items for the players' to rep while roaming the land of Coalchella...
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ARTIST Q&A: FLOOR BABA'S NEW ALBUM

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NEON DEATH It's just one of those average ordinary days but, today you decide to walk down the side of the city where the art district lies. Few blocks in you stop. You step closer. Your eyes, ears, and mind draw into an obscure wall filled with all sorts of doodles, sketches, and flamboyant drawings. This big orchestra of art can't be labeled, defined, or accurately described, but what you can say is that it all somehow blends beautifully together. This scenario is exactly how you can picture FLOOR BABA's new album NEON DEATH to sound like. Released via DESKPOP , the self-described jazz fusion artist has, what I believe, brought a whole new game and sound to the table. Tracks like " TURN IT UP " and " HIP TO THE GAME ," featuring Dtown , revel in the hip-hop sound but deliver a dirty bass infused 90s funk. Compacted with 16 mind blowing tracks, NEON DEATH is a bouquet of sounds that range from soft catchy melodies like " EVERLASTING " a...
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MEDIUM: BARON LANTEIGNE

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BARON LANTEIGN Written by: Zebrina Garcia If anyone is pushing the elements of visual art, it's Canadian resident, Baron Lanteigne. His digital practice holds your attention to different elements of perspective by using tools of video, sound, programming, and electronics. Diving into a virtual realm of his imagination, each project consists of ambitious human and digital conversions. Lanteigne progressively reforms the way art can be applied, digested, and displayed. For our next MEDIUM feature, read about Baron Lanteigne's journey in his artistic development and process. How long have you been creating art? idk What is your typical process for creating a virtually immersive piece? A typical animation requires the artist to frame the action and only create what is within the frame. This type of framing allows for very strong storytelling because every frame introduces a meaningful element or event and each frame is isolated from the other by a cut. ...
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