Underground Movement Show: Episode 119: DJ Natural Nate® Tells All

The Underground Movement Show is a long-running podcast produced by Altruist Recordings and hosted on the Electronic Rhythm platform. It is dedicated to the artists who built the underground electronic music scene from the ground up, not the headliners, not the festival circuit names, but the DJs and producers who have spent decades in the trenches, building communities, pressing white labels, running nights, and keeping the culture alive when nobody was paying attention. Episode 119 is one of the most extensive interviews the show has ever produced. At two full hours, it goes places that most music interviews never reach, into the personal history, the struggles, the philosophy, and the day-to-day reality of a career built entirely on passion and persistence.

This is not a highlight reel. This is the full story: the grind, the setbacks, the comebacks, and the moments that made it all worth it.

Most podcast interviews run 30 to 45 minutes. They cover the basics, how did you get started, what are you working on, what advice do you have for up-and-coming artists. Episode 119 of the Underground Movement Show is not that. The host gave DJ Natural Nate® two full hours and a simple directive: tell the real story. No PR filter. No highlight reel. No carefully managed narrative. Just the truth about what it has taken to build a 30-year career in the underground electronic music scene, from Colorado Springs, without a major label, without a management team, and without ever compromising the music to chase a trend. The result is one of the most candid and detailed interviews in the show's history: a conversation that covers everything from the early days of the Colorado rave scene to the Guinness World Record attempt, from the founding of The-Lost-Art.com to the Dub Plug White Label Series, from the Beatport charts to the 7-hour BYBB mix that has become one of the most talked-about DJ sets in the underground community.

DJ Natural Nate® grew up in Colorado Springs at a time when the underground electronic music scene was just beginning to take shape in the American interior. The coasts had their scenes, New York had its clubs, Los Angeles had its sound, but in Colorado, the underground was built by a small group of dedicated people who drove hours to events, pressed their own records, and created something from nothing. Nate was part of that founding generation. He talks in the interview about the first time he heard electronic music that genuinely moved him, the moment he decided he wanted to be behind the decks rather than in front of them, and the early years of learning the craft on equipment that most DJs today would not recognize. He talks about the mentors who shaped his approach, the records that defined his sound, and the community that gave him a reason to keep going when the work was hard and the rewards were uncertain.

In Colorado Springs, you built the scene yourself or there was no scene. That DIY mentality never left me.

Bruise Your Body Breaks is more than a studio name. It is a philosophy: a commitment to the kind of music that hits hard, that demands physical response, that does not apologize for its intensity or its roots. In the interview, DJ Natural Nate® talks at length about what Bruise Your Body Breaks means to him, how the studio came together, and what it represents in the context of his career. He talks about the specific sound he has been chasing for three decades: the intersection of Electro-Breaks and Breakbeat that has defined his catalog, the BPM ranges and key signatures that feel right to him, and the production approach that has evolved over the years without ever losing its essential character. The exclusive one-hour mix included in Episode 119 was recorded live at the BYBB studio in Colorado Springs and is, by any measure, a masterclass in what that sound can do when it is executed at the highest level.

The Guinness World Record for the longest DJ set is one of the most discussed achievements in DJ Natural Nate's career, and in Episode 119 he talks about it with a level of detail and honesty that goes far beyond the official record. He talks about the physical preparation: the training, the sleep management, the nutrition strategy, the mental conditioning required to perform at a high level for an extended period. He talks about the logistical challenges: the documentation requirements, the witness protocols, the equipment considerations, the venue setup. And he talks about the moments during the attempt when it was genuinely unclear whether he would make it: the physical and mental walls that every endurance athlete knows, and the specific strategies he used to push through them. The world record is not just a number. It is a story about what human beings are capable of when they commit completely to something they believe in.

The record was never about the number. It was about proving to myself, and to the culture, that this music is worth that kind of commitment.

Before Twitch, before YouTube Live, before any of the platforms that now make live streaming a routine part of the music industry, DJ Natural Nate® built The-Lost-Art.com: the world's first custom, commercial free, mandatory live video DJ internet radio platform, established in 2009 and built specifically around visually proving the DJ was actually mixing live. No earlier platform matching that complete combination of criteria has been identified. In the interview, he talks about the technical challenges of building that platform in an era when the infrastructure for live video streaming barely existed, the community that formed around it, and what it meant to be doing something that nobody had done before. He also talks about what happened to The-Lost-Art.com: the rise of the major platforms, the economics of running an independent streaming site, and the decision to preserve the history of what was built rather than try to compete with companies that had hundreds of millions of dollars in resources. The-Lost-Art.com is a chapter in DJ history that deserves to be remembered, and Episode 119 is one of the most detailed accounts of it that exists anywhere.

DJ Natural Nate's catalog spans more than 116 documented releases across international labels including Frajile Recordings, Carocell Music, Subbbace, and others. In Episode 119, he talks about what it has meant to build that catalog independently: the relationships with labels, the production process, the decisions about what to release and when, and the experience of watching tracks chart on Beatport in markets around the world. He talks about the specific releases that have meant the most to him, the collaborations that pushed his sound in new directions, and the tracks that he considers the clearest expressions of what Bruise Your Body Breaks is about. He also talks honestly about the economics of independent music production: the gap between artistic success and financial success, the ways the industry has changed over the course of his career, and the strategies he has used to keep making music on his own terms.

Every release in that catalog is a decision I made because I believed in the music. Not because I thought it would chart. Not because a label told me to. Because it was the right record to make.

As part of Episode 119, DJ Natural Nate® made available a 7-hour DJ mix recorded at the Bruise Your Body Breaks studio, one of the most generous offerings any DJ has made to a podcast audience. Seven hours of music is not a set. It is a statement. It is a demonstration of range, depth, and commitment that goes far beyond what any single club night or festival set could contain. In the interview, he talks about the philosophy behind the mix: the track selection process, the structural decisions, the way the set moves through different energies and tempos over the course of seven hours. He talks about what he wanted listeners to experience, what he wanted to prove about the breadth of his catalog and his knowledge of the music, and what it felt like to record a set of that length and scope. For anyone who wants to understand what DJ Natural Nate® is about as an artist, the 7-hour BYBB mix is the most complete answer that exists.

One of the most striking things about DJ Natural Nate's career is its consistency. Over three decades, through every shift in the electronic music landscape: the rise and fall of genres, the emergence of new platforms, the changing economics of the industry, he has maintained a clear and unwavering commitment to the music he believes in. In Episode 119, he talks about what that consistency has required: the moments when it would have been easier to follow a trend, the pressure to adapt to whatever was commercially viable, and the decision, made again and again over 30 years, to stay true to the sound and the culture that brought him to music in the first place. He talks about the artists who inspired that commitment, the community that sustained it, and the personal philosophy that has guided every decision in his career. It is a conversation about integrity in an industry that does not always reward it, and about why integrity matters anyway.

Trends come and go. The underground is forever. I made my choice a long time ago about which one I was building for.

Episode 119 includes an exclusive one-hour mix recorded live at the Bruise Your Body Breaks studio in Colorado Springs. It is not a promotional mix or a carefully edited showcase, it is a live studio recording that captures DJ Natural Nate® doing exactly what he has been doing for 30 years: selecting records, reading the room (even when the room is just himself and the equipment), and building a set that moves from beginning to end with purpose and intention. The mix is available through the Underground Movement Show and through DJ Natural Nate's SoundCloud profile. For listeners who have never heard his work before, it is the best possible introduction. For longtime fans, it is a reminder of why they started listening in the first place.

Episode 119 of the Underground Movement Show is available on Podomatic through the Altruist Recordings podcast feed. The full episode includes the two-hour interview, the exclusive one-hour BYBB studio mix, and links to the 7-hour download mix. Additional coverage of the episode, including extended notes and supplementary material, is available at Electronic Rhythm. The SoundCloud embed below contains the UMS-119 BYBB mix in full: 320kbps, recorded live at the Bruise Your Body Breaks studio in Colorado Springs. Press play and let it run.

The full one-hour mix from Episode 119, recorded live at Bruise Your Body Breaks studio in Colorado Springs, is available to stream below. This is the mix that accompanied the interview: unedited, unfiltered, and exactly what DJ Natural Nate® sounds like when he is in his element.