Describing their approach to music as "a little bit of a battle," producer/DJ J'Kerian Morgan makes fractured yet flowing music as Lotic. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, they moved to Austin to study electronic music composition at the University of Texas. While there, Morgan immersed themselves in DJ'ing for their college radio station and at clubs, connecting with Ben Aqua of the online dance music label #FEELINGS, which released Lotic's debut EP, More Than Friends, in 2011.