501 Friday is here, this time in Chandigarh! Levi’s 501 Fridays are all about celebrating music with artists that bring so much to the table. Who do they have this time? BLOT!, Hoax and Praveen Achary will get the audience raving to some electronica, tech house, and electronic with some captivating audio-visuals and an overall enthralling experience.

Artists:
BLOT!:
BLOT! is the Basic Love Of Things – a one of a kind experience presented by Gaurav Malaker. BLOT!’s club act combines, deep, emotive electronica with live video sampling. Since he began making music in 2007, BLOT! has gone from a more straightforward live dance act to a more multi-disciplinary experience. The producer has delivered an inspiring run of music releases in his career spanning six years, as well as immersive audio-visual sets and innumerable art installations in India and abroad. Malaker has also amassed a considerable and loyal fan base within the country, which is rivalled by few. BLOT! made a stylistic leap forward with the album, expanding his alter-ego’s sonic vocabulary far beyond his previous incarnation as a minimal techno act, into something unique and idiosyncratic.

The New Delhi based producer and DJ has traversed the globe, doing gigs and exploring urban culture through music, art, installations and other projects all over the world. BLOT! has performed at legendary venues and festivals across the wold including Trsor and Bar25 (Berlin), Nuits Sonores (Lyon) and at London’s South Bank Centre in his years making music. BLOT! was recently voted into the GQ 50 Most Influential Young Indians list, won the VH1 SoundNation award for best electronic act 2014, INCA Best DJ Delhi 2016 as well as a double win at the MyFav Awards for Artist Of The Year & Techno DJ of 2016. his most recent release was picked up by iconic label Diynamic Music.

BLOT! is also one of the names responsible for pioneering, interdisciplinary festival UnBox and underground electronica label – Qilla Records.

Praveen Achary:
Praveen Achary is a homegrown artist, producer of some chart topping productions and a DJ who has worked with heavyweight international record labels like Mitch Alexander's microCastle (Canada), Eelke Kleijn's Outside The Box Music (Netherlands), Cid Inc's Replug Records (Sweden) and more . With a unique combination of 'Deep, Tech and Progressive House', Praveen’s style has always gained him a lot of appreciation by fellow artists & fans alike. Having opened twice for electronic dance music’s legendary trance trio, Above & Beyond, he has now remixed their title track –We Are All We Need for their latest album's India edition. Using that same ethereal connection Above & Beyond is known for, Praveen's remix is just one part of his 2015 plans. His mix-sets are a testament to his adaptability and cohesion of his musical influences, all weaved together in a seamless manner.

A regular host of his own show “Juicebox”, an extension of the label, on the world's leading progressive house station – friskyRadio, he has been part of the 'friskyLovesIndia' series twice, as well as being featured as friskyRadio's 'Artist Of The Week', a feat achieved by not too many. In addition to his strong online presence, he has played at many club nights & festivals around the nation, the highlights of which being: Asia's biggest & premier dance music festival – Sunburn, Submerge Supernova, the historic worldwide launch of Above & Beyond's Radio - Group Therapy, Indivibe's annual underground festival in Goa – Krank, Chennai's sole annual music property – Go: Madras and many more. Apart from the big stages and fancy lights, he's shared the console with John Digweed, Richie Hawtin, Deadmau5, Booka Shade James Zabiela, Dave Seaman, Guy J, Jody Wisternoff, Matador, Henry Saiz, Dosem to name a few.

HOAX:
Akshay Bhalla aka Bhallanator was first introduced to electronic music when he came across a track on a CD was given to him by his parents when he was just a kid. It didn't take him long to realise his love for this music and soon he found himself heading towards the world of clubbing. He has opened for artists like Joseph Capriati, tyDi, Anna, Tenishia, Jerome Is Mae, Arctic Moon, The Viceroy, Indecent Noise, Lange, Ashley Wallbridge over the years, and has also played at venues like Blue Frog in Delhi & Bombay, Fabric & MOS in London, Kitty Su & I-Kandy in Delhi, Pebbles in Bangalore, and Pasha in Chennai amongst many others.

In 2007 he started with his short Residency at Ministry of Sound, London after which he explored the management side of things at MOS, Fabric and The Egg and in 2012, his passion for electronic music culminated in the launch of India's first ever electronic music magazine, Euphoric Magazine. After 7 years of unfolding, learning, living and breathing every corner of this street, in 2015, he gave himself a crafty name of deceit, 'Hoax'. With access to unreleased material; the tricks delivered when he's behind those decks is what makes that name so perfectly fitting.