This Sunday at 9PM will be a very special moment – eyes and ears will be soaking in the special sights and sounds of music being born at the worldwide premiere of Looking for the Perfect Beat. As part of the Downtown Film Festival, the Downtown Independent will be hosting the debut screening of this amazing documentary. Looking for the Perfect Beat is a cinéma vérité immersion into a world of music near and dear to our hearts – the Los Angeles beat scene community. Centered around Low End Theory, this film will immerse you in the world of so many unique, visionary sound creators and members of the dublab family like Matthewdavid, Ras G, Daedelus, Teebs, and many more. The soundtrack for the film creates itself live on camera as the film elapses – all the artists are featured in vivid detail as you are given an avant-garde visual angle on each subject in their respective creative spaces. It is an introspective glimpse into what would otherwise be unseen, a rare and elegant lifting of the veil on the personal creative processes.

Told as a 24-hour tour throughout the city filmed in the summer of 2013, the fly-on-the-wall perspective of Looking for the Perfect Beat archives each artist’s studio at this moment in history, revealing something universally humanizing about these artists, but also telling the story of the diverse community in which this group of inter-related artists interact. Directed by seasoned music documentarian Matthew F. Smith, and produced by Low End Theory club founder/long-time dublab friend Daddy Kev, Looking for the Perfect Beat provides a holistic view of these amazing musicians while instilling hope for the future of cross-cultural creative unions.

Above is an excerpt from the film featuring Ras G composing in his studio. Other artists feature in the film include Thundercat, the Gaslamp Killer, TOKiMONSTA, Jonwayne, Baths, Daedelus, Teebs, D-Styles, edIT of the Glitch Mob, Astronautica, Free the Robots, and Matthewdavid – see the official trailer below. Find more information about the Downtown Film Festival here.