Sun City Music Festival Artist Profile: TJR

We love TJR’s outlook on his performances. “I want people to let loose. I want them to let out their inner freak. Be as weird as you want — I’m going to be weirder than anyone up on stage.” So if you’re ready to get a little weird, join us at Sun City Music Festival coming to El Paso this coming Labor Day Weekend. Tickets are available online and in select stores.

Born TJ Rozdilsky, TJR grew up in the state of Connecticut, before taking a move to Los Angeles in 2010, immersing himself in the benefits of America’s hot spot for dance music. Though he is deeply rooted in his acid house and techno roots since in 2008, TJR has since built quite the arsenal of remixes and original tracks. Always cooking up big room bangers, TJR has received massive support from DJ’s like Sun City’s own Tiësto and Steve Aoki to other names like Fatboy Slim, Benny Benassi, Dada Life, Calvin Harris, and Umek.

First gaining exposure as a promising new edition to the electro and fidget house circuit, TJR has a love for dirty analog bass, deep, chugging techno grooves, and quirky vocals which he layers into his signature cross-over sound. His first extended player Bass In The Face, out of Lee Mortimer’s Wearhouse Music, gained TJR some global recognition but it would be early tracks like “Booty Move,” “This World,” “Good Evening Chicago,” and “I Don’t Know Where” that would all climb high on the Beatport charts.

Watching TJR perform live is something equally special. He has a knack for embracing diversity, blending different genres together into his energetic sound. We’re sure it’s helped that he’s also competed and won many DJ battles, simply stating, “producing fulfills my creative side, but DJing is my release. I grew up listening to mixtapes from Chicago house DJs like Badboy Bill and Terry Mullan, these guys brought hip hop turntable techniques to house music and made it acceptable.”

So what can you expect at a TJR show? Expect a lot of scratching, a lot of samples and working the crossfaders, so much so that he’s constantly breaking the nobs. But he doesn’t see it happening any other way. “I want people to see there’s actually something going on behind the decks.” And that we have. You can catch TJR doing ‘something behind the decks’ when he takes the stage at Sun City Music Festival coming to El Paso August 31st and September 1st.

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Though one of our Sun City Music Festival acts is from England and the other based out of Montréal, there are two things Adventure Club and Eats Everything have in common: they both love bass and they both had break out success in 2011.

Adventure Club

We love Québécois production duo Adventure Club‘s knack for bass music. Though the duo originally formed while as a hardcore pop-punk band, they later moved onto the sounds of dubstep, and we’re so glad they did. Tracks like their remix of Brand New’s “Daisy” put the duo on the map and gave them heavy exposure on popular music site, The Hype Machine.

Praised for their melodic song structures and most notoriously, their love of free music, the boys of Adventure Club have undoubtedly established a devoted following since their initial inception, just shy of two years. Whether they perform live, or in a mix like their recent Superheros Anonymous Volume 2, their sound floats between the avenues of electro house, dubstep, drumstep, and trap, all the while, keeping their smooth melodic Clubstep for the masses. They also manage to keep a comedic approach to it all, never taking themselves too seriously. You can catch Adventure Club when they make their way to Sun City Music Festival this coming Labor Day. Tickets are available now!

Eats Everything

Eats Everything is leading the pack of talented producers coming from England’s bass central, Bristol. Born Dan Pearce, the gent picked up DJing before he hit his teens, but by the time he was 16, he started playing at the clubs he frequented in his home town. As a producer, he began experimenting with techniques a little over a decade ago, but it wasn’t until 2009 before he could confidently say, “Yeah, I know what I’m doing.”

The world can’t get enough of Eats Everything tracks. They have an infectious bounce that keeps everyone moving on the dance floor, but still have relaxed and laid back vibes. The cool thing about Eats Everything is that he draws knowledge of the various genres and periods of dance music, ranging from early ’90s house to old-school jungle and speed garage. This is evident by his debut release, “Entrance Song” on Catz N Dogz’s Pets Recordings imprint, which was chosen by Pete Tong as one of the biggest tunes of 2011. We love how catchy his bass lines are all while maintaining his personality with tricked out synths and funny yet odd samples.

With his rise to fame in just two short years, he is sitting comfortably between the underground and mainstream realms of dance music, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s taken me a long time to get where I am,” he says. Currently, Eats Everything is working with dirtybird label boss Justin Martin on a collaborative album due out in 2014. You can wait until then to hear the British talent, or you can come join us at Sun City Music Festival and get jackin’ on the dance floor. Grab your tickets today!