Behind The Label: Magic City

There’s a certain electricity that runs through Magic City – a low-end current wired straight from Miami’s car systems to New York’s sweatbox dance floors. It’s been there from the start.

Long before it was a label, Magic City lived as a feeling. For Jubilee, that feeling began in Florida, raised on Miami bass, electro, and breaks – music built for movement, for bodies, for sound systems that hit like weather. When she relocated to New York, she brought that DNA with her, threading Southern bounce into the city’s underground circuitry.

The first Magic City compilation set the tone early. Jubilee tapped heroes and forward-thinkers alike – Florida breaks pioneer DJ Icey appeared on Magic City Vol. 1, with names like Addison Groove, Lauren Flax, Ikonika, and Untold appearing on future editions of the series – bridging scenes, tempos, and generations in one shot.

During and after the pandemic, the label snapped into focus, branching out from compilations to release singles and EPs from Astrolith, Garneau, GRRL, NIGELTHREETIMES, Danny Goliger, Gina Turner, and Louisahhh, along with Jubilee's own bass-soaked productions.

While “bass music” might be the shorthand, the reality is far more fluid. Magic City operates in the gaps between genres – where Miami bass collides with UK funky, where electro mutates into club, where breaks stretch into something futuristic and unplaceable.

More than a decade in, Magic City is a label and community built on instinct and a lifelong connection to sound system culture hasn’t lost its core instinct: follow the feeling, not the trend.

Step into Jubilee’s world with our ‘Behind The Label: Magic City’ spotlight below.

Listen to Magic City's 'Behind The Label' chart below!