KARAN! at IMPACT!
Impact! does a lot… SO MUCH these days. In a year with such an unprecedented amount of variety, how do you push it further? How do you make subs crumble inward from their own force even MORE violently? There’s only one answer to these, and it’s getting baile titan KARAN! to fly up from Brazil to level Cherry with some of the PNW’s best. Favela bass, bolha, mandelão, the whole works make this night October’s most sonically treacherous terrain. You’ve heard whispers about such a quake for months, so now here’s a shout: GO!
KARAN! is the project of Brazilian DJ and producer Sérgio Júnior, an artist helping establish Favela Bass as a distinct language within Brazilian electronic music. Active since 2019, his sound is rooted in funk and mandelão, expanding into the global bass music scene with a style designed for the dancefloor: impact, identity and energy.
With over 1 million streams across platforms, KARAN! has released music through labels such as Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Deadbeats, Sable Valley and Monstercat, and has received support from artists like Skrillex, Noisia, Boys Noize, RL Grime, Four Tet, Tropkillaz and Dennis DJ, among other respected names in the scene.
KARAN! respects the roots of Brazilian funk while pushing the genre into a more experimental and electronic direction, connecting street culture, clubs and festivals. His sound represents an authentic Brazilian funk, projected toward the future of electronic music.
Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, Draz is no stranger to bridging cultures in sound around the world. With early releases on underground imprints like Wile Out Records, Hermanito and THRIVE OR DIE, and DJ support by GTA, Tokyo’s TREKKIE TRAX, and RL Grime’s SABLE VALLEY, Draz continues to deliver his multicultural take on hard hitting club music & distorted drum grooves from his own roots and the world around him. With his unique blend of drum heavy Latin club music, Brazilian dance music, and raw underground club music from the United States, Draz truly represents the new generation of international DJ talent.
Lil T4T is a DJ, artist, furry raver, and rave organizer hailing from Northern California and currently based in Portland, OR. As a DJ, she has a passion for hardcore, newstyle, and other loud, distorted, high tempo rave music, blending them with bursts of cumbia, beat bolha, footwork, and more. Active in the PNW scene since 2023, she is the cofounder and primary booker of the Portland based rave org Moshpit.
Greystar is a nonbinary electronic music producer and DJ based out of Portland, OR. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she spent her early years bouncing from place to place, relying on art, music, and the internet for homely comforts. Over the past several years she has focused much of her efforts towards community building, both in the URL, with virtual festivals focused on experimental music from musicians located all over the world, and in the IRL, becoming deeply involved within the Pacific Northwest rave and furry scene. Her work and DJ sets have always sought to tell stories and take influence from a variety of boundary pushing music, from oldschool rave culture, braindance, deconstructed club, gorge, singeli, and baile funk.
DeseJo is a Seattle based Brazilian-American DJ pulling inspiration from funk, miami bass, east coast club, footwork, and electro. Her sets are energizing and will make you dance til you drop. Coming from underground raves, renegades, and house parties, you won’t want to miss it when she makes the club shake.
Flyer by Miguel Corrente
