SPIN First Drop Coachella 2022: Damian Lazarus

Visionary DJ, producer and Crosstown Rebels label boss Damian Lazarus has been a key determine in shaping as we speak’s dance music scene. He’s the founding father of Day Zero pageant and the Get Misplaced and Insurgent Rave events in Tulum, Israel, Miami, and Mykonos, and can be launching a weekly residency at Hï Ibiza this summer time together with Black Espresso and different cutting-edge digital artists. He simply dropped a brand new monitor with Gorgon Metropolis and not too long ago scored his first movie, Beijing Spring. We caught up with Damian forward of his set within the Yuma tent to speak about his fluid method to dwell units and what he’s cooking up for this summer time and past.

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“I’m unsure the place to particularly classify my sound. I come from a extremely cosmic, modal background. So I like spacey, possibly a bit of non secular. Possibly a reference to a better energy within the music, you already know? I are inclined to by no means play something to simply make individuals go ‘whooahh” – I prefer to kinda construct my units up. I feel it’s fairly psychedelic. Positively fairly trippy and deep. Kinda matches someplace round home and techno however I’ve been identified to drop different types in my DJ units, so it’s very troublesome to categorise. It’s simply Lazarus, that’s it.” -Damian Lazarus