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Watch the Intense Trailer for New Dance Music TV Series 'Momentum'

It’s described as going “deep in the underground electronic music world of New York City.”
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With Warner Bros' We Are Your Friends and Netflix original film XOXO seeing wide-scale releases within the last year, in addition to a forthcoming mobile project about American expats exploring Berlin's club scene, dance music is hoping to maintain its on-screen momentum with a new television series.

The latest show to take up dancefloor themes is titled Momentum, and it stars Michael C. Morello as Michael Morris, an aspiring New Jersey producer in his mid-20s who supports his foster family by working in construction. After his music is leaked onto the Internet, Morris becomes a viral success and is thrust into the fast paced, drug-fueled world of New York's underground electronic music scene. As the summary previews, "Michael must navigate his way through the chaos of massive success but decide what is worth sacrificing. His family, his friends, his health and most importantly his beliefs, all take a massive toll along this bumpy ride veiled with fame and dollar signs." Morello also created the series, and brought on as director Spencer Zabiela (though no word on if he's related to James).

After announcing the series in August 2015 via a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter, the team now has a public trailer to show for all their work. Though Momentum's plot trajectory is somewhat similar to those of its predecessors—young adult with less-than-ideal life situation gets his big break—at first glance it appears grittier and darker in comparison to WAYF's and XOXO's Technicolor aesthetic. Sticking by its "underground" ethos, the music in the trailer is less main-stage festival and more club-friendly, from Chris Lake & Matroda's remix of SNBRN's "California" to the Gesaffelstein- and Rezz-like brooding techno-electro fusion of Hyper's "Spoiler." Watch it below.

The pilot is expected to be released this fall, though further details are presently unknown.