As both an artist manager and fan, Spotify has helped me discover so much great new music. Anyone in "the industry" will agree it's become both the holy grail and biggest challenge to tackle for everyone in music, and it's for a reason. They're excellent curators and their playlists are on point. If you've ever listened to "chill electronic" playlists like Chill Tracks, Atmospheric Calm, etc. you've probably heard Koresma. He's a guitarist/producer based in Asheville, NC who paints gorgeous organic-electronic soundscapes with his ambient, mostly-instrumental music.

When I first started managing Axel Mansoor, he showed me his demos and asked me how we should go about finishing them. We knew we needed to bring in a producer to really polish the tracks and make them shine, so I asked Axel to put together a list of 10 artists/producers/songs from Spotify that sounded close to what he wanted the production of his music to sound like. On that list was Koresma and his single "Bridges". At the time it had just over a million plays and had been released relatively recently by Majestic Casual. While Axel didn't have anywhere near this amount of play at the time, getting in touch with Koresma didn't sound impossible. We sent him a cold email, and lo and behold he responded and the two creatives began chatting and hit it off. We eventually flew Koresma out to LA from North Carolina to work on what would become Axel's debut and sophomore singles, "Wasted My Love" and "Out Of My Head". Koresma's crystalline beats and mellow textures were a perfect compliment to Axel's guitar playing and songwriting. They ended up finishing the records remotely over some late night calls, and we released them a few months later to overwhelming positive response. They continue to work together occasionally on new music to this day. It's amazing the power one song can have in changing the course of people's lives.