Avello won a meet-and-greet with Adventure Club as a college freshman, the kind of fan-moment most people just post about — years later he was making music with them instead, teaming up on 'Cry,' a dubstep track built around a sample of Bingo Players' 2011 hit 'Cry (Just a Little).'
Adam Lawrence discovered EDM as a teenager listening to Flume and ODESZA, and was still a high school senior when Illenium's Awake reshaped what he wanted to make.
His 2025 remixes of Tinashe's 'No Broke Boys' and BØRNS' 'Electric Love' became genuine DJ-set staples, and collaborations with Gryffin and Laszewo have pulled him onto bigger festival bills — EDC, Electric Forest, Lollapalooza — off a career that started with a contest prize, not a demo tape.