Electronic Dispatch is a publication for the underground tier of electronic music — the records, mixes, warehouses, and people that don't usually make it into the festival press cycle. We're based in Los Angeles. We've been in the rave scene for eleven years. And we noticed something was missing.
The existing coverage is bland. A release lands, gets a paragraph with a streaming link, and disappears into the algorithm. There's no scene context, no engagement with the music itself, no sense of where the work actually comes from or who's behind it. Read the major outlets and you'd think electronic music was a series of festival headliners and press releases.
We started Electronic Dispatch to dispatch the underground — the part of the scene that gets played at four in the morning to a room of three hundred people who came on purpose. House. Techno. Ambient. Bass. The records you'd actually play out. The warehouses you'd actually drive across town for.
What we cover
The LA warehouse circuit is the centerpiece. The underground in Los Angeles is growing — quietly, deliberately, on its own terms. People are leaving the big EDM festivals behind for nights that don't need a wristband, a logo, or a sponsor. We're documenting that shift.
- Profiles of the promoters, labels, and artists driving it
- Reviews on a 10-point scale, with verdicts that mean something — we publish the negative ones too
- A calendar of shows we'd actually attend, not the press-release version
- The Late Pass, every Saturday: five underground releases from the past week, curated by one editor, no PR pitches, no festival promos
- Scene reports from cities outside the festival circuit
We want you to engage with the music, not skim around it. Players embedded inline. Liner notes that say what the record is doing. Reviews that take the work seriously enough to publish negative ones.
What we won't do
We don't sell editorial coverage. We don't republish press releases. We don't generate articles with AI. We don't cover music we wouldn't listen to ourselves. We don't take payment from labels we cover, and we disclose every potential conflict at the bottom of every relevant piece. The full rules are in our Editorial Policy and Ethics & Funding page — we publish those because credibility lives in the receipts.
We'll be different by
Recognizing uniqueness — in the music, in the artists, in the scenes the major outlets aren't paying attention to. The underground gets written about lazily, when it gets written about at all. We're trying to do it properly.
— Jazmine Gonzales Founder & Editor, Electronic Dispatch Los Angeles · October 2025