Summary: Downupright on the Virtual Sessions presented by The DJ Sessions 4pm PST 9/6/22 About Downupright - Downupright is Bill Boulden (they/them), 37, from Buffalo, NY. Bill started making digital music around the age of ten by goofing with Microsoft MIDI Studio and some Casio keyboards. Across the next twenty-seven years Bill would go on to learn Cakewalk, Sonar, Reason, Serum, and Ableton as each became the next big thing. They released many projects across those twenty-seven years under a variety of different artist names. In 2018 they fully crowdfunded their album ‘Music To Die Alone In Space To’ through fan support to a whopping 25k in funding, earning it a spot on Kickstarter’s “Projects to Watch.” Each album was recorded for the backer, making every recording unique. Since 2020 Downupright has released what they call “High Energy EDM”- fast, energetic electronic music that plays freely with genre as long as it’s upbeat. Downupright has a signature “High Energy Sound” with big builds and beats that change quickly, and lyrics that focus on the challenges of living on the mental illness spectrum. Bill lives with depression, anxiety, and some comorbid combination of autism, ADHD, and bipolar (differing diagnoses at different times), and the lyrics are often Bill’s way of dealing with these difficult emotions. In recent months, Downupright’s releases include the “Click Here To Prove You Are Not A Robot EP”, which featured rare vocals from DUR themselves, plus a half a dozen remixes, as well as the “The Upgrade” EP, which is an aggressive dubstep album focused around a dystopian future in which the government upgrades your organs to be more patriotic. Now, Downupright is hoping to replicate 2018’s crowdfunding success with their new album “We're Doomed, We're Dancing: 60 Songs, 60 Minutes’.. The diverse new album changes genres & vocalists every 60 seconds. Over 40 collaborators appear in a continuous party mix. Backers are rewarded with a variety of options, including the opportunity to be a Co-Pilot to the album, determining the next genre, setting the order of tracks, choosing themes, picking cover song opportunities, suggesting artists to collaborate with, voting on song titles, and more. About The DJ Sessions - “The DJ Sessions” is a Twitch/Mixcloud "Featured Partner” live streaming/podcast series featuring electronic music DJ’s/Producers via live mixes/interviews and streamed/distributed to a global audience. TheDJSessions.com The series constantly places in the “Top Ten” on Twitch Music and the “Top Five” in the “Electronic Music", “DJ", "Dance Music" categories. TDJS is rated in the Top 0.11% of live streaming shows on Twitch out of millions of live streamers. It has also been recognized by Apple twice as a "New and Noteworthy” podcast and featured three times in the Apple Music Store video podcast section. UStream and Livestream have also listed the series as a "Featured" stream on their platforms since its inception. The series is also streamed live to multiple other platforms and hosted on several podcast sites. It has a combined live streaming/podcast audience is over 125,000 viewers per week. With over 2,300 episodes produced over the last 12 years "The DJ Sessions" has featured international artists such as: BT, Youngr, Sevenn, Boris, MJ Cole, Lady Waks, Arty/Alpha 9, Miri Ben-Ari, DJ Ruby, DJ Colette, Nima Gorji, Kaspar Tasane, Andy Caldwell, Party Shirt, Plastik Funk, ENDO, John Tejada, Superstar DJ Keoki, Crystal Waters, Swedish Egil, Martin Eyerer, Dezarate, DJ Aleksandra, 22Bullets, Carlo Astuti, Mr Jammer, Kevin Krissen, Amir Sharara, Coke Beats, Danny Darko, DJ Platurn, Tyler Stone, Chris Coco, Dan Marciano, Johan Blende, Amber Long, Robert Babicz, KHAG3, Elohim, Hausman, Jaxx & Vega, Yves V, Ayokay, Leandro Da Silva, The Space Brothers, Jarod Glawe, Jens Lissat, Lotus, Beard-o-Bees, Luke the Knife, Alex Bau, Arroyo Low, Camo & Crooked, ANG, Amon Tobin, Voicians, Florian Kruse, Dave
