Electronic music is a unifying and empowering entity, something spawned from evolution and new understanding. Though consistently at the forefront of production and instrumentation technology, mutating the sounds and ideas of a concept or movement reinvents through interpretation the identity of sound. A realm predominated by DJs, the option to expand electronic implements as instruments and meld methods of control across genres and demographics is the incredible, expansive and unifying power of the genre. Unique, powerful and supremely individual, electronic music and its scene are now cultural mainstays of the Gallatin Valley, thanks in no small part to the hard work of DJ Ampathy.

Chris Hutcinson, Oz, or DJ Ampathy is one of Bozeman’s strongest promoters, producers and proponents of the electronic scene in its numerous, eccentric and vibrant elements. Born in Australia in 1984, Oz moved to Bozeman in high school where he quickly adopted music into his life to be immediately absorbe