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Brevard County, a laptop and a marketing degree

Adam Lawrence grew up in Brevard County on Florida's Atlantic coast and went to Florida State University to study marketing. Production began as a habit rather than a plan: he has said he started properly in the November or December of his freshman year. His account of the method is unglamorous — a few plain piano chords first, something with an emotion in it, then everything else built outwards from that.

The trigger came earlier. As a high-school senior in 2017 he heard ILLENIUM's album Awake and, by his own description, sat straight up and decided he had to work out how it had been made. The same year he went to his first rave, Life In Color in Orlando. Odesza, San Holo, Seven Lions and Said the Sky followed as reference points, and the melodic end of American bass music became the thing he was aiming at rather than a genre he drifted into.

Early traction was slight. Before the pandemic he had around 60 followers on SoundCloud; by the time the Florida State student title Her Campus profiled him that figure was closer to 460, with a livestreamed set for a We Are Water Collective fundraiser and a track called Balance behind him, and a first festival booking at Space Coast Music & Arts Festival in his home county ahead. He left FSU with a marketing degree and an MBA, and worked in supply chain management.

The labels that took the records

Insomniac files him under bass, which is accurate as far as it goes — the catalogue runs from melodic bass through dubstep into future trap, and the subgenre tends to be chosen by whichever vocal he is building around. The placements followed the sound: Bassrush and Lost In Dreams, both Insomniac imprints, and Subsidia, Excision's label. He has also told EDM.com about releases through Seven Lions' Ophelia Records and Breakaway Projects, which puts him on three of the labels that effectively define the American melodic-bass middle ground.

The support slots came from the same network. Insomniac's bio lists him opening for Excision, Slander, Seven Lions, Flux Pavilion, Kaivon and Gryffin — a spread that covers both the heavier festival end and the radio-leaning one. Festival work accumulated in parallel: EDC Orlando on both the Kinetic Field and Circuit Grounds stages, Corona Electric Beach, Forbidden Kingdom, and Moonrise on the Lunar Stage.

Some of that is on record. Apple Music carries a recorded DJ mix from his Circuit Grounds set at EDC Orlando in 2022, which is the earliest documented evidence of what he does with a large stage rather than a club booth, and a Splash House mix from August 2026 that shows the same instincts four years on.

One weekend, one remix

The break was a remix of No Broke Boys, the Disco Lines and Tinashe record. Lawrence has described the timeline to EDM.com: the production happened between a Sunday and a Tuesday, and it was out that Friday. A bootleg built in effectively a single working day became the thing that moved him from the support slot to the booking sheet.

What he did with the attention mattered more than the remix. Since the viral moment he has held to a release cycle of roughly three weeks, which by his own count produced around 30 playlist placements within months and more than 15 festival bookings inside the year, Lollapalooza and EDC Las Vegas among them. The ambitions he names are not modest — a Grammy nomination, ten million monthly listeners, and writing with Florence + The Machine, Kesha or Halsey — but the working pattern behind them is simply shipping often enough that no single track has to carry the year.

Records: pop vocals with the floor dropping out

The through-line in the catalogue is a sung melody set against something much heavier than the melody implies. Just Hold On, from 2023, is the early template. Coming Back arrived with a remix EP in 2022, there is an AVELLO remix of Drugs I Like from 2025, and he features on Josh Teed's Separation alongside skye.

Headrush, cut with the Santa Barbara trio Łaszewo and released on Lost In Dreams, was reviewed at the end of December 2025 as a song about release and surrender — immersive rather than aggressive, built to work both on headphones and on a festival stage. It is the clearest example of the melodic side of the catalogue.

DRUNK ON UR LOVE, out on 6 March 2026 with the vocalist Billi Royce, went the other way: fuzzy pop-punk guitar over vowel bass and a dubstep drop. It started from vocal demos Royce sent through Instagram. Lawrence began the track on a flight to Chicago the next day and has said he knew by the time he landed that it worked, and that what excited him was blending pop with dubstep in a way he had not heard before. His induction into the EDM.com Class of 2026 was announced around the same stretch of the year.

Autumn 2026: slots, then rooms of his own

September was a working month rather than a festival victory lap. Songkick logs The Amp at Craig Ranch in North Las Vegas on 12 September, Lost Lands at Legend Valley in Ohio across 18–20 September, and a club date at The Burdekin Hotel in Darlinghurst, Sydney, on 25 September — the Australian booking being the clearest sign that the streaming numbers have travelled.

The rest of the year reads as a headline run threaded through festival weekends. Valley of the Seven Stars in Arrington, Virginia opens the stretch on 9–11 October, followed by the Mod Club Theatre in Toronto on 16 October and The Chocolate Factory in Brooklyn on 17 October. EDC Orlando, the festival where he first played a main stage, falls over 6–8 November, and the same weekend carries a Detroit booking on Steve Aoki's Dim Mak 30 tour. The Ogden Theatre in Denver follows on 20 November, The Grand in Boston on 27 November, and Sunset Cove Amphitheater in Boca Raton on 5 December.

Taken together it is a particular kind of career stage: still taking afternoon festival slots, already selling theatres of 1,000-plus in Denver and Boston on his own name, and doing both inside the same eight weeks.

What the set is now

The club shows are late and loud. The Nashville booking in November 2025 — billed as Late Night Drip and running from 11pm at The Office, an underground room — set the shape: a headline set of roughly 75 to 90 minutes, two support acts drawn from the local and regional bass scene, and no production beyond the venue's own rig. The festival slots are the compressed version, closer to an hour, and lean harder on the remixes.

Coverage of him is still release-led rather than review-led; the trade press has written up the singles in detail and the sets barely at all, which is normal for an artist whose first headline run is this recent. What is documented is the material he has to play with: the No Broke Boys remix that broke him, the pop-punk crossover of DRUNK ON UR LOVE, the softer Headrush, and a catalogue refreshed roughly every three weeks since 2025.