Heavy Lifting by Producer Dojo

This Heavy Lifting Compilation Album showcases our talented Producer Dojo artists.  Think MACHINES, MUD and SLUDGE on a Super Earth with triple our gravity. 

ill.Gates
ill.GATES is a bass droppin’, educatin’, oscillator modulatin’ space genius from the future. DJing since age 13, ill.Gates has had a long and lavish career in the music business. Known for his epic collaborations with Apashe, Clozee, Excision, Destroid, KJ Sawka, Vibesquad, Beats Antique, Mimosa, Opiuo, Gucci Mane, Star Wars and the Dead Kennedys he is no stranger to the top of the charts. With 5 studio albums under his belt and hoards of unreleased original music ill.GATES is known for unforgettable live sets peppered with improvised finger drumming and original visuals. When he isn't traveling or rocking the studio ill.GATES is mentoring the next generation of producers over at his label Producer Dojo - ProducerDojo.com.

You can catch ill.GATES slaying dance floors on five continents as well as on the interwebs over at illgates.com.

Hirano
Hirano is a Bay Area native, now Las Vegas based Music Producer, DJ, Dancer and member of Quest Crew, America’s Best Dance Crew winners.

MAD-LAB
Where music meets Science

ALBY
I love music

Grittim
What is light without darkness? Here, wicked atmospheres, vicious and viscous basslines, and an obsession around rhythm and groove inform the sonic pallete. Melding steezy hip hop and metal roots with experimental electronic production, Grittim is a multi-instrumentalist and bass music producer from Denver, CO currently living in Brooklyn, NY.

Grittim draws on influences from the heavy, the grim, the glitchy, and the trippy - curating an immersive experience in his productions and sound sets.As a fan of both the hybrid trap movement and the dark aesthetics of deep dubstep, he brings a sound that tastefully pushes envelopes beyond their expected boundaries, while being emotionally authentic.

His background as both guitarist and bassist fuels his ability to take non-traditional approaches to melody, rhythm, and groove. As a live musician, he appreciates the high-energy experiences shared between performers and audiences. From the slams and heaviness of mosh pits, to the groove and swagger of hip hop, to psychedelic sound design inspired by a spread of electronic genres, the energy he brings is always fun and intense.

His aim: raise the vibration by uniting people through raw expression and common appreciation of life and dance. Fans can keep up with Grittim as he continues to unveil this new world through his releases and live shows.

MRPH
MRPH Is a Producer, making experimental bass and lofi music on the east coast 


NE Heights
NE Heights is the bass blending musical project of Victor Ramos. Incorporating stylistic influence from all SUB-genres of bass music, NE Heights provides low frequency stimulation for both the dance floor and the soul.

Blunter S. Whompson
The titans face off, massive neon knuckled hands hold magnetic discs like cosmic heart paddles. The discs are opposed and the giants push, and in the cosmic sandwich of ineffable polarizing force…Blunter S Whompson is throwing down.

Oscillating out of the ground like a crystalized DMT monument to a bygone era of pure subwoofer goo, Blunter S Whompson is the kind of galactic event that evolved the monkeys into wooks.

They point with their bones, Blunter laughs, and half time dub riddims barf out of the stomach of a dying star. The radiation is soothing. The vibration is a message.

Blunter, Son of the Whomp. King of the 37th Hertz, Bearer of the Krest. He has arrived.

Slowform
You never know when you’ll fall into the unknown. Lost in another world with no signs of life.  Close your eyes and be here. Slowform stretches time and space and fills you with strength. Sounds of darkness that leave you in an embrace. Music that touches your soul while bringing out your bass face. Feeling something new, reigniting that fire inside. It’s time to see things in a new light. Once you know, you can’t forget. There is beauty all around, but only if you take a step back and slow down.  

ill.Gates and the Dojo crew present forward thinking music from a diverse group of Dojo mentors and students.