AFK

There are at least three artists with this name. 1.) For the last three years, Dallas' dynamic bass duo Jimmy Blythe (Droopy) and Kyle Nuss (Royal Highnuss) have been melting speakers and knocking drinks off the bar with their huge bass heavy sound. While getting support from large names including: Rusko, Datsik, Downlink, Excision, Calvertron, Run DMT, Helicopter Showdown, Eptic, and more, the group refined their sound releasing tracks such as "Feel 4 U" on Betamorph Recordings and a remix of "Miracle" on Lincoln Road Records in 2011.

1.) For the last three years, Dallas' dynamic bass duo Jimmy Blythe (Droopy) and Kyle Nuss (Royal Highnuss) have been melting speakers and knocking drinks off the bar with their huge bass heavy sound. While getting support from large names including: Rusko, Datsik, Downlink, Excision, Calvertron, Run DMT, Helicopter Showdown, Eptic, and more, the group refined their sound releasing tracks such as "Feel 4 U" on Betamorph Recordings and a remix of "Miracle" on Lincoln Road Records in 2011. Touring across Texas the duo prepared for their first EP release which dropped on February 7th in 2012, "FULL CLIP" on Datsik's new label, Firepower Records.

2.) For the last nine years, Davin Greenwell (better known as DJ ariz0na, or producer AFK) has been pushing the progressive sound in the form of breaks, house and trance. Davin has been heavily involved in the Victoria electronic music scene, through years of community and commercial radio, club and events promotion, ravevictoria.com, and now most prominently with Pacific Front Recordings (PFR), a new music label he trail-blazes in cahoots with Justin Humber, aka Sasha-spun Formulate. Recording as AFK, Davin has released several gigantic progressive tracks on his home label, PFR, and has produced a haunting breakbeat remix of c79's 'Violent Silence' and a synapse-smashing remix of Micah's progressive house odyssey, 'Capable Space'. His collaboration with Anand Greenwell (Tiebreaker) has been very well received. Davin has been remixed by names such as Steve May, Dustin H, His Boy Elroy, Matt Rowan and Jaytech, Seed, Phokus, Jacob Todd, Daniel Lindeberge, Blake Jarrell, Jeff Devas, Influenza, Micah, Formulate, and c79. In addition to the Pacific Front releases, he has music forthcoming on the tremendously popular Proton Music and a release out on Inaspace (UK) under the guise of Royal Assassin with Thor Kell, also known as Fractal - TidePool's deepest puddle. Davin's music has extended globally and can be heard in forward-thinking clubs all over the world with support from DJs like Sasha and John Digweed, Armin Van Buuren, Dale Anderson, Luke Chable and Shiloh.

No stranger to Proton Radio, Davin currently appears on a show called Pacific Front Sessions, which he hosts with Justin Humber, airing monthly. With nods to progressive's huge past, Davin and Justin capture the excitement and the essence of its sound today, giving a rare and powerful glimpse of greater things to come. Toss in a Saturday night residency at Victoria's outstandingly fun Lush at Hush, mix in appearances at Progressive Entertainment's most solid night "Focus" in Vancouver with Kevin Shiu, Kristian Littmann and John Morgan, and you have a talent echoing throughout the scene in the Pacific Northwest.

3.) afk is the producer name used by Darby Janssen. Active since 2005, afk had released several L and EPs on the now defunct Popoki Online Records. Janssen's sound never stayed the same with any release. Nearly every release had an entirely different sound and each album pulled influences from different groups, although each album was primarily electronic. Primary influences, by album: Victorian Blowjobs (2005): Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares; Harx Neweral (2005): mu-ziq, Autechre; 314159 (2006): Four Tet, Kraftwerk, Hrvatski. afk has not had a release since 2006's 314139, and is listed as "In Hibernation" on his myspace page.