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Notes from an artist in mid-pivot.

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Our latest EVERYTHING+NOTHING dispatch includes original prose exploring divergence and detachment, corresponding art, musical composition and an update on the expansion of our community.

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The truth is you were never the problem. You were born into the problem and it blamed your existence for its own. But you were not here to decide. Nobody asked you. Just as nobody asked it. You were birthed on a battlefield. Handed your gear and shipped out for service before you got the chance to ask “what am I serving?”.

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Chase Aaron at the historical Amoeba Music location in Hollywood. Photograph by Alec Luu.

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In the modern music industry, a stark polarization is taking shape. On one end, streaming behemoths like Spotify continue to shortchange artists and blatantly express a values system misaligned with the very humanity of art—a point hammered home by the fact that their CEO, Daniel Ek, has invested over $600 million into AI war drones…

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BVNDO is now featured on Tidal.

It's nice to be recognized after being "gone" so long. Love that I can phase in and out and shapeshift so authentically. Please never limit yourselves creatively or in any other way 💚

Original music & visual concept by me for ANKH STUDIO (@ankhisalive). Tell a friend.

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Originally released in 2015, "BVNDO" was a defiant war cry for the overlooked artists of California’s Inland Empire—a sprawling, creative underbelly just outside Los Angeles, where talent simmered in the shadows of the city’s glittering legacy. The IE was (and still is) a breeding ground for visionaries who helped to shape LA’s culture yet rarely saw their names in its lore. That dissonance between contribution and recognition fueled a young, militant Chase Aaron ( @bipolarchoirboy ), who channeled that frustration into something revolutionary.

Alongside his sister and best friend, he founded WTFCAMP, a collective that turned the chaos of their environment into something electrifying. What could have been rage became celebration; what could have been noise became anthems. "BVNDO" was one of those anthems. It was a rallying point for a movement that, for a time, made them champions of their people.

But movements evolve. A decade later, the world is different. WTFCAMP has dissolved, its members scattered. Chase Aaron stepped away from music, or tried to, before realizing retirement wasn’t in his DNA. After a three-year hiatus, battles fought in hell and heaven alike, he resurfaces. "BVNDO" returns—not as a relic, but as a reclamation.

Written, produced, performed, mixed, and mastered entirely by Chase Aaron (with art direction and design to match), this anthem is a reminder. A reawakening. The retelling of a legend that refuses to stay buried.

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Not a reset, but a reclamation.

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It really all comes down to this: Everything was necessary.

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Times Square. Type by me.

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