The Way Out is an audio and visual educational project created by Ron Cameron that is centered around animated psychedelia and mind-expanding sounds. In the summer of 2011, Ron was inspired by fellow DJ friends to make use of his enormous music collection. Since he used to DJ a bit in the late 1980s, they suggested live DJ-ing would be a good solution. So, Ron brainstormed ideas for the project. It soon became evident that this would also make a great idea for a weekly late night radio show.

 

With his music selections for The Way Out sound and light show, Ron shows the before-and-after lineage or family tree of dub techniques; exalting and championing the artists, producers and engineers who dared to go a bit more “far out” with their recording studio experimentation. Starting out in the ’50s with electronic sci-fi experiments, and proceeding into the ’60s with psychedelia, the scene then landed in Jamaica in the early ’70s, where the dub version of reggae was invented. The next stop was the ’80s, with its 12” single extended and remix versions, followed by the sampladelic ’90s, when this style of music also became known as trip-hop electronica, ending up in the 2000s, when everything came back full circle and all of those eras and genres got mixed together. Within two years of steady live DJ gigs, Ron was nominated as one of the Top 5 DJs by the Coachella Valley Music Awards in 2013.

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