Nocturnal Revenue

Hi, I'm Nocturnal Revenue, and I'm really excited to be part of the jazz community. I haven't released any music yet, but I’ve been learning Ableton and FL Studio, and I plan to pick up Pro Tools and Logic soon.

For most of my life, I avoided jazz. Every time I heard it, it felt lifeless — like background noise for people who gave up. I thought all jazz was like that.

Six months ago, after listening to Justice’s Hyperdrama on Spotify, a Dizzy Spins track came on autoplay. I've been obsessed ever since.

People don't realize there's a visionary in their midst. Dizzy Spins isn’t just making music — he’s rewriting how artists can operate. Branding, independence, ownership — it’s all in his blueprint.

I know jazz musicians who are incredible players but live gig-to-gig, stuck financially. It's heartbreaking because it feels like they're missing what Dizzy Spins is teaching: own the art, own the business.

My friend said, "Dizzy Spins is the Jay-Z of jazz." I don’t disagree. Honestly — who's going to stop him? Some guy with a trumpet?

What’s brilliant about Dizzy Spins' sound is how distinct it is without ever feeling forced. I grew up on house music classics and still track shifts in the genre. There's "jazz house" — cool, a guitar riff over a 4/4 kick, we get it.

But what Dizzy Spins is doing is much bigger.

Especially on Downhill Travels, it feels like he baked the hypnotic recursion of house into his music — but without relying on the ubiquitous 4/4 kick pattern. He kicked 4/4 out of the conversation entirely.

Some people are calling his sound “post-house,” others “plunderhouse.” It’s like plunderphonics collided with house music — and he had the audacity to file it under jazz.

He’s not blending genres.
He’s rebuilding the rules of repetition.

And he’s doing it quietly.

I've never seen an artist move like Dizzy Spins.
He drops music every single Friday without fail — and he never posts on social media. No rollout. No hype machine. Just pure work ethic and vision stacking quietly in the background.

His taste is insanely diverse, and you can hear it in how carefully everything's curated. I read that he’s been influenced by Patrice Rushen, D’Angelo, and A Certain Ratio — and once you know that, you can hear those fingerprints across his work, subtle but undeniable.

I’m heavily influenced by Dizzy Spins' genre-defining classics Downhill Travels and Uphill Battles.
I really hope I get the chance to work with him one day.

He's my idol.