Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This all-electronic-music edition features sounds from Pastland, Stunna + Calculon, The Waffle Tower, evbp/Owasurenaku, and CrispySafe. 

Pastland, Pastland Collection
The QR Network is an Ann Arbor-based music ... thing. It seems to be partly a record label and partly a promotion service for large room EDM music—you know, big builds and air sirens and samples of wailing singers. It's party-starting music, which is exactly what Pastland creates on this compilation. According to the QR Network's website, "Pastland is the melodic festival alias of Christopher Lao" (and I think Lao is also the person behind QR). There are four songs and four remixes of those songs on Pastland Collection, all of which are built to fire up festivals where people are dancing their faces off.

Stunna + Calculon, "Power of the Mind" b/w "Millennial Daze"
Ypsi's drum 'n' bass label AGN7 keeps cranking out bangers. Stunna + Calculon are a couple of Chicago-based DJs and music creators who teamed up for these two cuts, which combine ambient overlays and mad percussion with vocal drops from Jamaican speakers, female voices, and, I believe, Ice-T on "Power of the Mind." Tremendous tracks and another winner from AGN7.

The Waffle Tower, "Houston, We Have a Break"
Ann Arbor's The Waffle Tower debuts with an absolutely mad jungle meets gabber track that's constantly shifting. Imagine a dancefloor made out of quicksand, and every time you think you have a handle on how to move your body on the floor, something changes, and you have to start over—that's what it feels like listening to "Houston, We Have a Break." Brilliant chaos.

evbp, Only Criminals Get Caught I
Owasurenaku, Owasurenaku
Experimental Voice Box Programmer—evbp—is Ann Arbor's Adam Noveskey. Owasurenaku is also Adam Noveskey, and these two recent releases by him sound entirely dissimilar, which is the case for most of his releases. Noveskey genre hops through electronic music styles like a bunny. Where evbp's Only Criminals Get Caught I is a quirky take on vaporwave, Owasurenaku's self-titled album is a straight-up ambient affair.

CrispySafe, "Atmospheric Travels"
Ann Arbor's CrispySafe debuts with a smooth and low-key funky electronic music jam that would probably sound great at an early '80s rollerskating party.

Christopher Porter is a library technician and the editor of Pulp.