The WAMPTRONICA practice extends beyond the physical dance floor. Its weekly radio shows function

as both broadcast and archive; connecting listeners to the pulse of underground dance music while documenting a living continuum of sound.

Each episode is curated with the same principles as a live session: pacing, restraint, and attention to the listener. The shows highlight new releases, forgotten gems, remixes, and tracks that rarely circulate on mainstream platforms. The music is presented to sustain movement, invite reflection, and maintain a connection between artist, DJ, and audience.

WAMPTRONICA is on the air Tuesdays at 8 PM on wnbone.com and Fridays at 9 PM on lemonade.com. Each week, new episodes are released as a podcast on all streaming networks, with fresh content launching every Saturday. This schedule allows the community to engage with the music in multiple ways; live, in real time, or on-demand.

The radio show introduces listeners to sounds that may eventually reach the floor; it builds a shared vocabulary and a sense of expectation. Charts, contextual essays, and interviews offer orientation and depth; they provide language for what is often experienced physically before it is articulated.

The cycle is continuous:
radio introduces the sound;
writing provides context;
live sessions complete the experience.

This loop ensures that underground dance music remains relational, responsive, and rooted in practice. It is not content for its own sake; it is documentation of an ongoing cultural and musical continuum.

To stay connected; listen to the WAMPTRONICA weekly broadcast; explore the Urban Influencer Charts; and follow the ongoing documentation of the practice.

http://linktr.ee/wamptronica

Underground Dance Music Is a Culture; Not a Genre

 Underground dance music did not originate in clubs, algorithms, or celebrity DJ culture. It emerged from
necessity; from communities creating spaces where they could gather safely, move freely, and exist beyond surveillance.

House parties, juke joints, sound systems, loft gatherings; these were not scenes, they were responses. Black, Latino, and LGBTQ communities built environments where music functioned as social glue, emotional regulation, and collective release.

As disco, house, and later electronic dance music entered the mainstream, much of the culture was stripped from the sound. What remained in the underground were principles rather than products:
the DJ as facilitator rather than performer;
the dance floor as shared space;
the session as ritual;
sound as something experienced collectively rather than consumed individually.

WAMPTRONICA situates itself within this lineage. The music it plays and produces is inseparable from the environments it is intended to live in. Tempo, texture, and rhythm are chosen not for virality, but for their ability to sustain movement, focus, and communal flow.

When underground dance music is understood as culture, the questions change:
Who is the space for;
What does the body need;
How does the sound serve the room.

This context is not supplemental; it is foundational.

To stay connected; listen to the WAMPTRONICA weekly broadcast; explore the Urban Influencer Charts; and follow the ongoing documentation of the practice.

http://linktr.ee/wamptronica

Field Notes; Inside a WAMPTRONICA Session

A WAMPTRONICA session is not fixed to a single room, venue, or format. It is a mobile practice; one
that adapts to environment, community, and moment while maintaining a consistent set of principles.

At its core, the session is about how people gather around sound. How rhythm establishes trust. How repetition allows bodies to arrive at their own pace. These principles remain intact whether the music is unfolding in a club, an open plaza, a cultural space, or a temporary pop-up assembled for a few hours and then released back into the city.

SOUL on the MOVE extends underground dance music into open and public spaces across New Bedford, Cape Cod, and the Boston/Cambridge area. These sessions remove the familiar boundaries of nightlife and place the music directly into the flow of daily life. Passersby become participants. The dance floor forms organically. What might otherwise be background sound becomes a shared moment of presence and release.

The THUMP & SOUL SESSION functions as a seasonal anchor; a monthly gathering running from October through May. This session emphasizes continuity. Familiar faces return. New listeners are folded into the room. The sound deepens over time; shaped by collective memory rather than novelty. The focus is sustained movement rather than peak moments.

On second Thursdays, AHHHhhh serves as a point of convergence during AHA Night in New Bedford. These sessions bridge art-walk energy with underground dance culture; drawing together people moving between galleries, streets, and social spaces. The music offers a place to settle, recalibrate, and move before reentering the night.

Alongside these public gatherings, WAMPTRONICA hosts private and small-group pop-ups at venues throughout the region. These sessions are intentionally scaled down; allowing deeper attention to pacing, live instrumentation, and the subtle exchange between DJ, musicians, and room.

Across all of these environments, the principles remain consistent:
the DJ functions as facilitator rather than focal point;
live instrumentation moves in conversation with recorded sound;
the dance floor is a shared space;
and the session responds to the people present rather than imposing itself upon them.

These Field Notes exist to document that continuity. To give language to a practice that is often felt rather than explained. To affirm that underground dance music is not bound to a single venue or format; it is a way of organizing sound, space, and community.

This practice unfolds across multiple environments.

Join us where the music meets the room; and the room becomes the session.

To stay connected; listen to the WAMPTRONICA weekly broadcast; explore the Urban Influencer Charts; and follow the ongoing documentation of the practice.

http://linktr.ee/wamptronica

What Is WAMPTRONICA?

 WAMPTRONICA is an underground dance music collective rooted in Southeastern Massachusetts; a
living practice devoted to sound, gathering, and cultural continuity.

It is not a genre experiment and not a brand exercise; it is a method. A way of convening people through rhythm, repetition, and shared experience. A way of treating the dance floor as a social and ceremonial space rather than a spectacle.

The sound draws from Afro House, Deep House, Jazz House, Soul, Funk, and Afrobeats; it is shaped equally by Indigenous rhythm, instrumentation, and philosophy. Three of the four original members are Mashpee Wampanoag, and this perspective informs not only the music, but the intention behind every session, recording, and broadcast.

WAMPTRONICA functions across several interconnected platforms:
live underground dance sessions and pop-up gatherings throughout New England;
a weekly radio show documenting contemporary underground dance music;
original recordings released as concept-driven works;
media installations combining music and moving image;
and ongoing cultural documentation through writing and archiving.

Rather than operating on the logic of constant visibility, WAMPTRONICA works in cycles; seasonal, reflective, and community-centered. Releases are tied to solstices, sessions, and lived experience. Events are designed as spaces of safety and release, particularly for people of color, creatives, and those historically pushed to the margins of nightlife culture.

The objective has never been scale for its own sake.
The objective is resonance.

WAMPTRONICA exists to cultivate an audience that understands underground dance music not merely as
entertainment, but as the continuation of social traditions that have survived displacement, erasure, and commodification.

To stay connected; listen to the WAMPTRONICA weekly broadcast; explore the Urban Influencer Charts; and follow the ongoing documentation of the practice.

http://linktr.ee/wamptronica