At the forefront of innovation is an artist that has made splashes in every major electronic medium over the past 6 years. James Watts began pruning his unique vision for electronic music in the days of tinkering with DOS-based trackers. His prolific body of work now embraces the bulk of electronic genres, including breaks, IDM, tech-house, and downtempo. His fluency in piano is evident throughout his work, as is his penchant for jazzy riffs, intelligent structure, wistful melodies, and an often cheeky take on the current state and history of electronic music as a whole.

An ever-growing list of projects and collaborations exists. Skeetaz, with breakbeat cohort Bil Bless (Son of The Electric Ghost, The Disciple Grin, etc), brings hard-hitting digital glitched-out funk, as well as their own label Proboscis. KiloWatts & Vanek, a collaboration with singer Peter Van Ewijk, is a mystical ride through epic existential storytelling, nested atop edgy electronica. With Tanner Ross, a unique style of dark minimal tech-house is born under the name Voodeux for Dirtybird’s techno sublabel Mothership. Fellow Philadelphian hip-hop poet Amagine delivers consciousness-driven motifs in their digital glitch-hop project called Super Galactic Expansive.