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#**Searching for Beauty in Dance Music and Industrial L.A. with Young Adults Co-Founder @deepbody**

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David Fisher (@deepbody) is a man with many responsibilities. He’s a father to a 20-month-old daughter named Hazel; president of Astro Tools, a Los Angeles-based automotive company his grandfather started four decades ago; and co-founder of the dance-music label Young Adults, which he runs with his high school friend Leeor Brown.

“Young Adults captured the spirit of what we were going after — growing older while still trying to be young,” David says of the label, the name of which also doubles as the moniker for he and Leeor’s DJ duo (as a performer, he goes by “Deep Body,” a phrase he coined for the music he likes, as well as a play on his first and middle names, David and Benjamin).

The underlying current of David’s pursuits, from Young Adults and DJing to his photography of sparse Los Angeles locales, is a search for something deeper and taking time to appreciate things that are barely there. “It originally came out of a love for graffiti and street art, then the deconstruction of that or looking for decay,” he says. “It’s like a scavenger hunt for me now. I like finding odd little cuts and crevices and back alleys and seeing what kind of hidden treasures are going on in there.”

David usually finds time to take his pictures during lunch breaks. It started with him exploring areas around his work. Some days, he would take a different route just to see if there was something he hadn’t yet stumbled across. One recent detour took him to two straw-hatted garden figures next to a piece of plywood and a hose hanging from a small tree, a site he now drives by every day. “It’s part of a little apartment community,” he says. “There are all these little odd and quirky nuances of the neighborhood. There’s a lot of warehouses and a lot of houses tucked between them, so you get this weird intersection of humanity and industry. That’s kind of what I’m grappling with at my day job.”

Quirky encounters aside, David’s photos reflect his curiosity to look past facades. As a radio DJ at University of California, Berkeley, he was into underground hip-hop and early electronic-rock hybrids like Four Tet, before he grew to appreciate the subtleties of dance music. “I don’t think it’s for everyone, but I also hope that if you’re able to kind of dig one level deeper, it might reveal some stuff. It doesn’t look like much at first glance but maybe just a little extra focus might bring out some nuance that shows the subtleties of whatever the composition is capturing.”

That’s part of David’s concerted effort to not get sucked into the “quick scroll-through” multimedia world. “Today’s culture feels like everything has to hit you right off the bat. Most people, when they listen to new music flip through the track, like, ‘Am I going to like this?’ You want to get more snippets of what it’s about instead of just listening from beginning to end and seeing how it develops. Nothing lasts, you know? It feels like everything is just temporary now.”

Not one to rush, David is looking forward to another album later this year for Young Adults, with few concrete plans for the label’s future. “I find the more I try to make things happen, it feels forced,” he says. “Part of the beauty of Young Adults is allowing it to take its own time and develop in a natural state instead of feeling like I have to be tied to a release schedule or a certain style of music. I’m excited to see where it goes. I have a lot of hope that it’ll keep growing and the reach will keep expanding, but I also don’t want it to be something that I try to make happen, instead of it happening because of the product and the sounds we’re putting out.”

—Dan Reilly for Instagram @music

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