Where Aspiring Producers Become
Touring Artists
A premier artist development program designed for electronic music producers who are ready to build a professional career and perform on stages around the world.
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What We Do
Aspire is a professional artist development program built to help electronic music producers transform their skills, brand, and strategy into a real career in the music industry.
Aspire helps you develop a professional sound that stands out to labels and industry tastemakers.
Learn how to position your project, showcase your music, and create opportunities that lead to real bookings.
Build a loyal audience through clear branding, strategic content, and consistent artist growth.
How We Get You There
Three core pillars that turn producers into professional touring artists.
Make Better Music
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Finish Music With ConfidenceA production workflow that turns raw ideas into finished, label-ready tracks so you stop starting over and start releasing.
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Build a Signature SoundDevelop the sound design and sonic identity that makes your music unmistakable and earns you DJ support from artists at the top of the game.
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Achieve Clean, Professional MixesCreate mixes and masters that translate from streaming to club systems at the quality that gets you signed.
Build Your Brand
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Develop a Distinct Artist IdentityWe build your real artist identity: mission, persona, and aesthetic. Fans follow artists, not just people who make songs.
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Grow Your Audience StrategicallyTurn who you are into a brand that attracts attention from promoters, managers, and agents, not just casual listeners.
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Increase Your Streaming MomentumA content system that gets you in front of the right people, builds real fan momentum, and lays the groundwork to go full-time.
Grow Your Career
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Get Booked for ShowsGet in front of the right promoters with the right pitch, from club nights to festival slots.
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Sign Records to LabelsBuild the sound, relationships, and reputation that get labels paying attention and reaching out to you.
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Build Real Industry MomentumTurn your music and brand into real traction: streams, followers, and bookings that compound into a full-time career.
We Work With 2 Types of Producers
We have customized roadmaps designed to cut years off your learning curve, no matter how long you've been at this.
You've watched 100+ tutorials, started ideas, finished nothing. You've "learned" a lot but have nothing to show for it.
- Producing less than 1 year
- Little to no releases or shows yet
- No clear roadmap forward
You've been at this for years. Tracks are out, people know your name, but you've been stuck at the same level for months with no labels, no bookings, and no real momentum.
- Active for years with some results
- Growth has plateaued or stalled
- Doing the work but not seeing the return
Our Student Results Speak For Themselves
- Music on Mau5trap and Sable Valley
- Collabs with Feed Me and No Mana
- Headlined Shambhala Music Festival
- +711k plays on a single song on Spotify
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- Performed at Red Rocks and Mission Ballroom
- +3.9M plays on a single song on Spotify
- Multiple bookings at Red Rocks
- DJ support from Diplo, Sidepiece, and more
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- Headlined at Shambhala Music Festival
- +172k plays on a single song on Spotify
- Performances at Electric Forest and Movement
- Played w/ Eric Prydz, itsmurph, and more
- Top 10 Hypeddit releases
- 144k Spotify streams on self-release
- Headlined Movement Music Festival
- Performed with Mau P, James Hype, and more
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Why Listen To Us?
Stephen Bakarich (Masteria)
Founder & Head Coach · Aspire Artist Academy
Honestly, you shouldn't listen to me right away... I'm a complete stranger on the internet.
I could tell you about my 18 million streams or how Tiesto, Excision, Martin Garrix, Diplo, and Steve Aoki, and more have played my music in their sets.
(I stopped tracking all the DJ support a while back.)
Or about releases on the biggest labels in dance music: Mau5trap, Insomniac, Monstercat, Confession, Night Bass, and more.
All from going from knowing literally NOTHING about music production to that in under 2 years.
But what's more important is our students, which you can see on this page.
They've played Red Rocks, Shambhala, Electric Forest, and Decadence. Hit hundreds of thousands of streams and built full-time careers, all while we taught them 1-on-1.
We're the best in the world at teaching EDM production, branding, AND growth strategy because our mentors have actually achieved what our students dream of.
And we have the results to back it up.
Record Label Signings
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Do Any of These Sound Familiar?
These are the challenges that can keep producers stuck for years and years.
Every time you sit down to produce, you hit a wall and start over. You've been at it for months but have nothing finished or worth releasing to show for it.
You squeeze music into the few hours after work, second-guessing every move. Nothing good gets finished.
You throw your finished track into a playlist next to your favorite songs. And yours sounds way smaller. Quieter. Flat. You can hear the gap but don't know what to actually fix.
You scroll TikTok and Instagram for inspiration. Try to make posts that look like whatever's hot this month. Yet there's nothing special about your identity.
You spend months on a track, post about it, and get a few hundred plays, mostly people who already follow you. Then it dies. No momentum, no new fans, no traction.
You're playing other people's tracks at every gig when what you actually want is people showing up to hear YOUR music. You're a DJ by default, not by choice.
Real Results from Producers Exactly Where You Are
Every artist below used the same system you're about to learn. You can contact any of them and ask about Aspire Artist Academy. We have not warned them we're doing this.
- 21.9M Spotify streams across his catalog
- 4x Billboard Chart artist with placements on major labels
- Played Electric Forest, Movement, Gridlife
- Sets with Alison Wonderland, Tchami, Taiki Nulight
- Played Holy Ship and Summer Camp
- Sets with John Summit, Dom Dolla, Ganja White Night
- DJ Support from Meduza, Ayybo, AC Slater
- Sets with Disco Lines, Max Styler
- DJ Support from OMNOM, Layton Giordanni
- Performances with Disco Lines and itsmurph
- Festival performance at Big Bond Music Festival
- 548,746 streams on music
- Performances at Global Dance and Regenerate Festival
- Sets with James Hype, Ayybo, Wax Motif
- Reached #1 on Beatport charts
- Performances at Friendship Music Festival
You Won't Do This Alone
Most producers grind in isolation, with no feedback, no accountability, and no one to push them. Aspire is different. When you join, you step into a room full of serious artists who are all moving in the same direction.
These are producers who show up, do the work, and hold each other to a higher standard. Friendships get built here. Collabs happen. Careers get made.
The community alone is worth it.
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