When considering forward thinking bass music in Texas, it’s hard to look beyond the influence of Sines and his Freshmore imprint, a veritable Houston institution that has been pushing diasporic bass sounds for the better part of the last four years. Recently, veteran producer Sines has joined up with fellow producer Panchitron , the Los Angeles-born producer who now resides in Austin, to form Santa Muerte. Focused on the intersectionality of contemporary dance music sub-culture, the duo has turned their focus on everything from instrumental grime abstractions to the wonderfully tinny direction that reggaeton has taken in the past decade. 

Riobamba is an Ecuadorian-Lithuanian DJ/producer and cultural promoter based in Brooklyn. Drawing inspiration from her hybrid diaspora roots, borderless digital dialogue, and bodega soundtracks, Riobamba reconstructs stories of migration and displacement to build out her own club rituals. Her sets interweave remixed Youtube clips and field recordings, urbano soundscapes, sound system anthems, and rave disorder in a tribute to de-colonized club culture "suped up with a twisted, industrial gnarl" (Complex).

Breaking through: DJ Wey The artist also known as Luis, DJ Python and Deejay Xanax is as poetic as he is versatile, dishing out everything from house to breakbeat to so-called "deep reggaeton." Max Pearl pays him a visit in Queens. - Resident Advisor

Piñeyro worked on music throughout college as DJ Wey before adopting multiple aliases in 2016. Between July and December of last year, Piñeyro put out four impressively diverse EPs across the spectrum of dance music, each record attributed to a different name and distributed through a different label. As DJ Python, he made slithering, subdued mutations of reggaeton for his housemate Anthony Naples’ imprint Proibito. - Pitchfork