AYLI Ground Level

AYLI Ground Level surfaces the artists who make the culture, city by city, state by state. Zernell @ grimyedits  has been a bridge between Chicago and the LA underground for over a decade. Born in Chicago and shaped by Ron Hardy and the Music Box, he moved to the West Coast carrying those influences with him. He launched Crate Diggers in collaboration with Discogs, ran Electric Circus, and built G...

AYLI Ground Level surfaces the artists who make the culture, city by city, state by state. @ Truncate , fka Cell Injection, built his name in the LA underground alongside Droid Behavior, bringing a European-edged techno to the West Coast before it was a trend. Proudly Latino, unapologetically loud, and distinctly LA. During quarantine he kept the release schedule moving, ran a remix competition th...

AYLI Ground Level surfaces the artists who make the culture, city by city, state by state. Washington D.C.'s @ jacq-jill  has built momentum fast. Regular gigs alongside international artists, the Hothouse warehouse series with Shyboi, a Boiler Room set representing D.C., and headliner spots at leading queer underground parties across North America. Community-driven, space-making, impossible to ig...

AYLI Ground Level surfaces the artists who make the culture, city by city, state by state, country by country. This episode features Washington D.C.'s Baronhawk Poitier. His debut release on Honey Soundsystem arrived during a year when everything stopped. The music didn't. Polished, infectious, and well beyond what a debut should sound like. A name worth knowing. Listen to the mix, read the interv...