008 - The Sound and Feel of Bay Area Underground Music

It seems like every event has to have a corporate sponsor in the Bay Area these days…or be backed by the city, or some one-syllable tech firm. It’s tedious. It’s stifling.  For the disaffected, an underground alternative naturally endures. You have internet radio stations like this one, HydeFM, along with an ecosystem of crews setting up events.No Bias is an independent media project, party series, and record label running out of Oakland since 2020. If you’ve gone to a renegade rave or seen a techno DJ lately, odds are their smiley face logo was somewhere on the flyer. We talk with the project’s founder, musician and DJ Tal Robinson, about what moves him and the local scene.