The Original
Computerhead.
A computerhead superhero from Earth’s parallel dimension known as “The Computerverse.”
Downlowd is a Los Angeles-based electronic artist, DJ, producer, label founder, and the Original Computerhead: a 15-year veteran whose work moves between tech house, bass house, retro rave, melodic/progressive house, and harder club forms. The project pairs real DJing with a shipped multimedia universe — music, comics, lore, events, and the Computerhead mythos.
Downlowd is the Original Computerhead — a Los Angeles-based electronic artist, DJ, producer, label founder, and the (computer)head of Internet Friends. Emerging from the El Paso / borderland rave scene around 2011, later becoming a New York City transplant and now based in Los Angeles, Downlowd has spent 15 years building a catalog and stage language rooted in intensity, technical skill, and reinvention.
His early Downlow’d era was manic, theatrical, and aggressively multi-genre, spanning electro house, dubstep, drum & bass, and rave-forward club music. The evolution into Downlowd and the Computerhead was not a reset; it became the origin beat. The man became the machine. The performer became a runaway digital consciousness from Earth’s parallel dimension, the Computerverse.
The proof is not ornamental. “BANG BANG” reached #7 on the Beatport Bass House Top 100 and held a Top 100 position for roughly six weeks. “Street Mantra,” with Jaycen A’mour, reached #1 on Beatport’s Electro House chart (#50 overall Top 100). Downlowd has released official remixes through Spinnin’ Records and Insomniac’s IN/ROTATION imprint, collaborated with Cazzette, Zack Martino, Jaycen A’mour, Blase, Haus of Panda, CHAY, Leah Culver, Blake Webber, Tom Budin, and Abi Monterey, and earned support from names including Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke, Tchami, Cazzette, Mike Williams, Tommie Sunshine, tyDi, Joachim Garraud, Zonderling, Sophie Francis, Shane 54, DJ Shiftee, RUN DMT, Bros Rodriguez, and Julian Gray.
Today, Downlowd operates as both artist and world-builder. His Lowdcraft universe extends through original records, written chapters, visual lore, and the published comic Downlowd: JAILBREAK. The live show is a physical Computerhead performance — tailored, haunted, technical — built for genre-spanning sets, storytelling elements, custom props, and the kind of DJing that still feels dangerous.
Beatport Electro House
“Street Mantra” with Jaycen A’mour hit #1 (Brooklyn Fire) — one of several Beatport chart records.
Tastemaker wall.
Music is one channel of the story.
Downlowd is a runaway digital consciousness — the original computerhead — whose long-form narrative spans ORIGINS and JAILBREAK, from man to Computerhead, Earth 36v to the Computerverse.
Each original song is paired with written chapters and comics that extend the character and his world. Codex, a sentient antique pocketwatch tied to time, memory, destiny, and hidden knowledge, acts as a sidekick and mythic device. Reed appears as a recurring rival inside the broader arc.
The IP has shipped beyond the records: Downlowd: JAILBREAK, the official comic, anchors the Lowdcraft universe.
A true technical DJ performance fronted by the physical Computerhead: vintage CRT monitor, pixel-smiley face, tailored black wardrobe, gloves, and a presence that reads as haunted digital gentleman rather than robot or mascot.
Downlowd sets are genre-spanning and rave-forward — tech house, bass house, retro rave, melodic/progressive house, Latin house, and harder club movements — built around instinct, tempo control, and real mixing. The show can incorporate storytelling elements, live musical instruments, custom props, and visuals unique to the Lowdcraft world.
Artist. Curator. Scene-builder.
Downlowd owns Ravehub, a Los Angeles house and techno party brand and community, and co-owns Internet Friends, a tastemaker rave / internet-culture collective with an established run of shows.
The Internet Friends ecosystem includes affiliated residents and artists with notable trajectories, including Party Pupils, Leah Culver, NashRly, Lily Ardalan, Blake Webber, and others. The point is not decoration; it is proof of curation and community gravity.
Selected press.
Insomniac
Premiered “GONE” (feat. Faunea) on Insomniac.com.
ThatDrop
Featured the Origins EP as an intricate, story-driven concept release.
Daily Beat
Featured the single “NiteClub.”
Resident Advisor
Profiled as a Tech House / Retro Rave artist known for the computerhead and high-energy live shows.
Press imagery.
Book the Computerhead.
Downlowd runs a self-directed, specialist-supported operation: artist, label, lore, events, and community under one world.