“We’ve been brainstorming some really cool ideas — we’re really excited about it and things that are going to be coming in the future,” Perry said. “We want to start throwing monthly parties — LEAK events — featuring us as artists as well as the other DJs within town.”

Perry said the Lansing electronic music scene recently has been revived.

“There’s been a resurgence, I’d say like over the past two years. Just more people into the music again, like a new wave of music,” Perry said.

The four artists make for a diverse organization of producers and DJs, both roles crucial for the creation of electronic music.

“In electronic music, there are two ways that someone can be involved in it as an artist,” Deep said. “Typically, DJs just play music and it’s the producers who are using the samples and the synths and everything to create the songs.”

Deep is a producer who calls himself a DJ in training. He said although producers have the job of actually creating songs, DJs make the music their own by using their creativity to mix beats and bass into several different tracks simultaneously.

“Basically, they collect music, new music (and) they are bringers of the new,” Deep said. “They create vibes and atmosphere with music they collect.”

Deep said electronic music is a very large umbrella covering many genres of music, so don’t assume a constant drum beat with synth is techno. Of the many genres, techno only is one of them.

“Techno, as it may sound, has a lot of ‘bleeps’ and ‘bloops’ and it’s a little more subtle as well, more minimal,” Deep said. “(Then) there’s house music, which is typically pretty groovy, and typically has what’s called a ‘four to the floor’ kick, so it’s going buhm, buhm, buhm, buhm, to keep that really dancy vibe going.”

Without any actual acoustic music, some people don’t consider electronic music to be music at all.

“There’s definitely been people who have said, ‘that’s not real music,’ or there’s been people you have said, ‘you didn’t make that because those sounds aren’t yours,’” Deep said.

“The way I try to describe it to those people is that I take a lot of drum samples and synth and I create a whole new sound with them — a whole new beat, whole new rhythms, whole new melodies, harmonies, etcetera and create something totally unique out of multiple samples.”

Andrew Carlson-Lynch, one of the members of DiscoGirlfriend, has played in many bands with many different musical styles, but it’s these unique sounds he enjoys about electronic music.

“What I’ve really loved about the electronic music is, because it’s so synthesized, you get to hear sounds that you haven’t heard before,” Carlson-Lynch said.

His DJ partner, Jeff Hoisington, loves the receptive crowd and enjoys feeding off their energy.

“Usually, you are a DJ because you just love the music and you love doing it,” Hoisington said, “But, when the crowd is there and you’re down on the mixer, you’re messing around and you look up and you see people just crazy, going wild — you drop a track and they start just screaming — it’s a feeling that you can’t really describe, it’s kind of something you just have to experience.”

The musicians plan to launch LEAK by early January while they continue to play shows around the Lansing area.

Rob Perry and DiscoGirlfriend will be playing at 9 p.m. Nov. 23 at The Firm Food & Spirits, 229 S. Washington Square, in Lansing. For more information on LEAK, visit the project’s Web site at facebook.com/leakollective.