Eric Joshua Seall (born September 10, 1998), known professionally as Ace Aura, is an American DJ, music producer and remixer from

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. He is known as a pioneer of the melodic riddim subgenre, which is characterized by the minimalistic rhythmic elements of

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, with a heavy emphasis on chords, melodies and experimental sounds. He has released five EPs, along with numerous singles and official remixes for record labels including

Monstercat Monstercat (formerly known as Monstercat Media) is a Canadian independent electronic music record label based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 2011 by Mike Darlington and Ari Paunonen, the label released music on a tri-weekly basis unt ...

Circus Records Circus Records is an independent record label founded by Joshua "Flux Pavilion" Steele, Shaun "Doctor P" Brockhurst, Simon Swan and Earl Falconer in 2009. Kanye West and Jay-Z sampled the Flux Pavilion song "I Can't Stop" in "Who Gon Stop Me" ...

Dim Mak Records Dim Mak Records is an independent, Los Angeles-based record label, events company, and lifestyle brand founded by Steve Aoki in 1996. The label has released music under the genres of punk, indie rock, hardcore, hip hop, and electronic dance ...

Buygore Yosef Asaf Borger ( he, יוסף אסף בורגר; born 20 October 1987), known professionally as Borgore, is an Israelis, Israeli Electronic dance music, EDM producer, DJ, singer-songwriter and rapper. He is the founder of the label Buygore R ...

, Ophelia Records, Disciple and Never Say Die Records. He has performed at music festivals and venues across North America and Australia, including

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, Legend Valley,

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, the Great Saltair, the

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, the Mission Ballroom and the

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Background

Eric Seall was born on September 10, 1998, in

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. He was raised in a

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household in

McKinney McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. The U.S. Census Bureau lis ...

and attended church regularly. He started playing drums at the age of 8 and played with his church's youth group band, which was his first experience performing music publicly. He was introduced to electronic music in eighth grade when his friend showed him the

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remix of "

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" by

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during lunch. This event prompted him to learn how to make

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, using a demo version of

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he had received for Christmas. He is a devout Christian and has said that his faith is a central part of the way he writes music. His EP ''Reset_Environment'' is inspired by the

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. In 2020, he graduated from the

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with a

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Career

Seall posted his first song, "Rise of the Angels," to his

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page on November 18, 2012, with a PWYW digital download option. He continued to release music in that same fashion until March 9, 2016, when he self-released his single "Metamorphosis" on all streaming platforms. In July 2017, he joined a remix competition for the song "Wait for Me" by British DJ and producer Chime, in which his entry won second place. On April 19, 2018, Seall released his debut EP ''Exodus'' on Ninety9Lives. Chime signed Seall's song "Ensnared" and EP ''Guided Wandering'' to his record label Rushdown, and collaborated with him on a remix of "Wet Napkin" by Ray Volpe in 2018. In November of the same year, Seall accused Kentucky producer Joshua Gleason of allegedly stealing the remix and releasing it as his own song under the moniker thesourwarhead, which Gleason later denied in a statement on his Facebook page. He released his third EP ''Comatose'' on February 21, 2020. In April 2020, he collaborated with Millennial Trash on the song "Noddin'," which was placed in several editorial playlists on

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. On August 12, 2020, his song "Another Heart," which he produced with Skybreak and Sharks in under 24 hours, was released on artbyFORM's ''All Nighter Vol. 5'' compilation, with all proceeds from streams and digital sales being donated to

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. On August 28, 2020, he released his fourth EP ''Reset_Environment'' through Disciple Round Table, as well as a remix of the

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and Whales song "Save You" through Steve Aoki's

. On November 27, 2020, he released his song "Waiting" on

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imprint.

He released his

debut single "Stay" with Tynan on January 11, 2021. On March 4, 2021, he released ''Comatose: Awakening'', an album containing six remixes of songs from the ''Comatose'' EP and a new original song titled "Adrenaline." On April 9, 2021, he released another remix album titled ''The Noddin' Remixes No One Asked For'', which featured 12 remixes of "Noddin'," along with a sequel to the song, dubbed "Noddin' 2." In May 2021, he collaborated with Chime on a Splice sample pack titled Melodic Riddim Vol. 1, which debuted at #1 on the site's "weekly top packs" chart and remained there for four consecutive weeks. On May 7, 2021, he released the song "Resist" with Subtronics. The following month, he supported Subtronics at

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and performed "Resist" on stage with him. He self-released his song "Cyber Cuddle" on June 4, 2021. On June 24, 2021, he released his collaboration with

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, titled "The Feeling," on

. On August 20, 2021, he released his fifth EP ''Gem World'' through Never Say Die. The EP's title track was played in DJ sets by

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, Nghtmre, DJ Diesel,

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and

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. On September 20, 2021, he put out his first solo

release, "Destiny." On September 27, 2021, he performed at Excision's Lost Lands festival. On December 10, 2021, he released the single "Falling for You" with Slippy on Insomniac's Bassrush imprint, as well as his remix of "Just Like You" by Kompany. On February 24, 2022, he released his fourth Monstercat single "Umbra," featuring vocals from German electronic artist Voicians. According to Seall, the song was originally a remix of "Blue Shadows" by Xilent, but it was adapted into an original so it could be released officially. He collaborated with

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on the song "Level" from their ''Resistance'' EP, which released on April 15, 2022. On May 13, 2022, he returned to Rushdown to release a VIP remix of "Tongues of Fire." On June 24, 2022, he debuted on

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' Ophelia imprint alongside Nytrix with the single "Echoes," a followup to their 2021 collaboration "Shattered." In July 2022, he traveled to Australia for his first international tour, performing in Sydney,

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and

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. On July 7, 2022, he released an official remix of

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and Moody Good's song "Shadow" featuring Calivania. On July 17, 2022, he announced his sixth EP ''Revive'' through a

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within a cryptic video he posted to social media. The EP released on July 22, 2022, via

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and included the single "Echoes," as well as three new songs. On July 29, 2022, he released a remix of the song "It Was You" by

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and

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on the former's ''Sentiment (The Remixes)'' album, which also included remixes by Autograf, Elohim, We Are Fury, Blanke and Nurko. On January 26, 2023, he returned to

to release his seventh EP ''Crystal Coalition''. The EP was his first EP to be composed entirely of collaborations and included songs with Beastboi, Mikesh!ft, Skybreak, SpaceYeti and Phocust.

Discography

Extended plays

Remix albums

Singles

As a featured artist

Remixes

References

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