BMAs // Electronic
A guide to the 2024 Boston Music Awards
The 2024 Boston Music Awards is at Big Night Live on December 11.
Hump Day News was nominated for Best Music Publication.
You can vote for all the nominees here.
To honor our glorious symbolic inclusion and insufferable clout chasing, we’re rolling out the BMAde Betterz series for 2024. In this series we send the nominees through the meat grinder to yield three main categories of sodium-enriched meat byproducts.
The “New To Us”
Never heard of them, or at least never heard them. But they’re on the list, so let’s have a listen.
The “House Specials”
We’ve covered these acts, we treasure these acts, we 100% get why they’ve been nominated.
The “New To You”
These artists didn’t make the list, but they should have!
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Dance/Electronic Artist of the Year // Nominees
Amadeezy // André Obin // Battlemode // Chelita // Ex-Hyena // Honeycomb // Llynks // Nick Minieri // Orange Peel Mystic // Rilla Force
Chelita, indie house, where can we go to hear this spun live? This shit is for real. Shades of Avalon Emerson with a light, effervescent touch on the percussive elements and a propulsive pop-forward mentality. And we’re still working our way through André Obin’s latest LP Armored King, but we like what we hear. Electro forward pop with some durrty bits and ambient rabbit holes.
2024 has been a year of spinning out hawt neu singles like “Playlist” for Battlemode, who are finding exciting new ways to throw down as a newly-minted trio. Did they get new music gadgets or did they just figure out how to use the ones they already had better? Either way, their chiptune sound is deeper, more nuanced, and weirder in all the right ways.
The two-person attack of Orange Peel Mystic is one of the most exciting live synth/percussion combos around. Big, bold, electronic murals of sound painted across the sky and shot through with explosive drumming. Plus, two studio albums released in 2024. Yowza! And Rilla Force could make his reputation as a producer alone, but catch the live show to hear him roll out his modded vox style and squirrelly rhythms on the mic.
Shout out to Will Tell Aim, whose solo drum & laptop attack mixes soft-edged electronic sounds with the hard edge of live percussion. And you can’t leave Muzzins off a dance/electronica list – that’s their jam! Their latest single “We Can Be Together” traffics in mid-90s tropic house.
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