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Garth
Trinidad
 Garth
Trinidad is
known by most as host mysterioso of KCRW's
Chocolate City. For 7 years he's shared a
most unique of black musical visions on air,
breaking artists like Jill Scott, Saul Williams,
King Britt, tasting worldwide exposure with
KCRW's growing internet audience [www.kcrw.com].
Awards and accolades from press and peers
have followed since the inception of his radio
program [currently counting 70,000 listeners]
and various live achievements, the most recent
of which was the honor of being host and curator
for an ongoing series of summer concerts at
The Getty Center. Read
more...
Quote from
the Artist: "AIDS
is a mass murderer and Africa is it's holocaust.
Responding to it is joining the fight against
the wicked forces that would see it through
to further exploit Africa's abundant resources,
and exterminate the original man."
Links:
www.kcrw.com
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| Gavin
Hardkiss - Hawke
Links:
www.sunburn.org
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| George
Sarah
 Bio:
Electronic composer and multi-instrumentalist
George Sarah has been a mainstay on the Los
Angeles music scene since 1985, Sarah performs
his original compositions from a bank of synthesizers
and drum machines accompanied by a live string
trio, bridging the normally discrete musical
worlds of electronica and classical music.
George Sarah has composed 28 episodes for
the Discovery Network and has garned him a
nomination in last year's American dance Music
Awards for Best song in a T.V. series. He's
appeared numerous times on t.v. including
several episodes "Buffy the vampire slayer"
and you can find his music on various tv show's
including the top rated "CSI", "Oprah
Winfrey" and in over eight motion pictures.
He has released eight independent cd's selling
over 20,000 cd's and has appeared on over
40 compilation. read
more...
Links:
www.georgesarah.com
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| Gene
Farris
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| Jazzanova
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| Jeremy
Sole
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| Jesse
Brooks
Quote from the
Artist: "We,
as Americans and as human beings, must address
the AIDS problem in Africa because it is not
just a problem there, but a worldwide pandemic.
The United States, being such a powerful and
wealthy country, needs to take part in the
fight against AIDS. If we don't, the problem
will keep spreading and become an even bigger
problem. It is our duty to protect not only
our country but every country plagued by this
terrible threat."
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| John
Kelly
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| Jordan Strong
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| Kaskade
 Bio:
Returning from
the yearlong It's You, It's Me World Tour
of 2003, celebrating his monumental debut
album of the same name, Kaskade comes home
to his Om Records family with his newest offering
to the beloved San Francisco Sessions Series,
"Soundtrack to the Soul". A lot
has been written, said, and felt about this
young man and his music in the past year.
The worldwide media, DJ's, radio stations
and music loving public adore him. He's been
praised as "The Best Up & Coming
Artist of 2003" from URB MAGAZINE...Read
more...
Links:
www.om-records.com
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| Kristina Sky
 Bio:
Kristina Sky discovered Dance Music at the age of 16 when she began attending underground parties in Los Angeles. It wasn’t very long before she went from attending these events, to organizing and throwing them. Sky threw commercial and underground events from the ages of 17-22. Her events took her following all over Southern California from Santa Barbara to L.A. to San Bernardino to the Mojave Desert.
She is a rotating resident on Victor Dinaire's Lost Episode Radio show on XM Satellite (over 7 million subscribers) and is a regular featured artist on Dinaire’s Resident Nation on Music Choice/DirecTV (broadcast to over 30 million homes in America).
Kristina continues to maintain a 4+ year-running residency on www.etn.fm, one of the largest and most respected Trance and Progressive online radio stations in the world, where regulars from all over the globe, tune in to hear the latest and greatest in trance and progressive, interpreted by Kristina Sky, during her current mix show series - “Kristina Sky Presents... Trancelate”
In 2006 Kristina finished off her first monster of a remix with Randy Boyer of EnMass [EnMass- CQ (Seek You) (Randy Boyer & Kristina Sky 2007 Remix)], which was signed to Armin Van Buuren’s own ‘A State of Trance’ record label, set to be released sometime in Jan ‘07. This first remix gained support by top talents like Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Solarstone, Agnelli & Nelson, Sander Van Doorn, and many more and is rocking dancefloors all over the world. For complete bio, go to http://www.kristinasky.com/bio.html
Quote
from the Artist: I have taken responsibility to respond to the AIDS catastrophe in Africa because I would like to make a contribution which would help prevent the needless deaths of countless women and children. People living with AIDS in Africa have a right to the life-saving anti-retroviral medication that will prolong their lives. I feel that if it is in my power to help, I should do whatever I can to make their lives healthier, productive, and more sustainable.
Links:
http://www.kristinasky.com
http://www.myspace.com/djkristinasky
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| Liquid
Todd  Liquid Todd is an award-winning radio and club DJ based in New York City. Over his long radio career he's launched acclaimed mixshows on major terrestrial radio outlets like K-Rock ("Solid State") and WKTU, New York and WBCN and WFNX in Boston. He currently be heard on no less than four Sirius Satellite Radio channels including Area 33, Left of Center, Chill and Boombox where he does everything from hosting, to programming and producing. An energetic and imaginative live performer LT has played all over the planet at clubs and festivals - never turning down an opportunity to donate his time for a good cause.
Quote:"Being involved in NextAid is my connection to the fight against disease very important and historic place in the world. If I can help NextAid by spreading the word about the devastation caused by the HIV/AIDS epidemic - a subject that many have little or no knowledge - then I feel like I've contributed what I do best to do something really important. That's a really good feeling and I want to do even more. Watching NextAid's very real progress over the years has been a joy."
Link:
www.liquidtodd.com/
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| Louie
Vega (Masters at Work)
 "Little
Louie" Vega is the Miles Davis of dance music.
Like the impossible to categorize Davis, Vega
is constantly reinventing himself and revolutionizing
music itself in the process. During his nearly
two-decade long career, Vega has crafted some
of the most innovative singles in dance music
history ("The Nervous Track", "It's Alright",
"I Feel It" and "You Can Do It"), kick started
genres like soulful house ("Beautiful People,"
"I Get Lifted"), and revitalized the careers
of legends like Roy Ayers, George Benson and
Tito Puente.
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Quote: "It is our responsibility to help in anyway we can with the AIDS catastrophe in Africa. In our case, we can use the proceeds from our music to help build a multi-purpose center for teens orphaned by AIDS who live in Dennilton, South Africa. I have been to South Africa 3 times and have met many incredible talented artists and producers and the appreciation and love for music is one of a kind. I am here to do what I can to help, especially utilizing my talent as a producer and DJ to come through in the best way possible."
Link:
www.mawrecords.com
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| Mark
Lewis
 Bio: In
the dance music community, where careers are
often measured in months, Mark Lewis has been
a leading figure in the industry for 16 years.
In addition to being a DJ who has spun throughout
Europe, Asia, North and South America and
Africa, he has earned an unchallenged reputation
for producing successful DJ sets worldwide.
He formalized his operations in the summer
of 2000 when he launched Mixology Inc. a Los-Angeles-based
multifaceted company encompassing a record
label and a production / events department
that offers lifestyle options for DJ's and
DJ connoisseurs.
Quote from the
Artist: "Right
now there are few things, if any, more important
for this generation to act on."
Links:
www.mixologyinc.com
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| Marques
Wyatt
 Bio:
International DJ and producer Marques Wyatt
is an influential messenger of the deepest,
most soulful kind of house music. Beneath
his relaxed, spiritual and unknowingly suave
persona, therein lies a man partially responsible
for giving birth to the West Coast house scene
by bringing the fresh sounds of New York (a
la Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries and Larry
Levan) to Los Angeles beginning in the mid
‘80s. Carefully pointing out that he
has "always had a deep passion for music,"
you know that his adoration of house has been
a gateway into the lives of thousands and
thousands of people. Over the years promoting
and playing an enormous amount of parties
including BBC, Brass, MAC's Garage, Does Your
Mama Know? and currently LA’s biggest
house club DEEP, Marques has changed the face
of Southern California nightclubbing and the
presentation of its music, sound and scene.
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more...
Links:
www.deep-la.com
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MC Azeen
After reintroducing the hip-hop world to intricately-layered jazz chords with Colossus’ West Oaktown, ushering in a post-neo-soul era with Strange Fruit Project’s The Healing, and showcasing the non-hyphy side of Bay Area rap with Zion-I & the Grouch’s  Heroes in the City of Dope, Om Hip Hop unleashes its most visionary, groundbreaking and (quite possibly) controversial release to date.
Rise Up, the long-awaited album from veteran underground emissaries Zeph and Azeem, offers thirteen tracks (and two interludes) worth of consciousness-lifting metaphors, party-rocking beats, and undiluted, 100% rebel music. In the tradition of classic pairings like Guru & Premier, the D.O.C. and Dr. Dre, Eric B. & Rakim (and, more recently, Aceyalone and RJD2), Rise Up matches one DJ/producer with one MC, with suitably stellar results. Read full write up at www.om-records.com
Quote: "If this problem is not solved, humanity will watch the death of love itself."
Links:
www.myspace.com/zephandazeem
www.om-records.com
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| Mei-Lwun
 Bio:
Over the past
decade, Mei-Lwun has established himself as
one of the most respected DJs from the DJ-rich
San Francisco Bay Area. An ambassador of Soulstice
Music's future-forward sound Mei-Lwun continues
to write and produce along side Gina René,
Andy Caldwell and Gabriel René as well
as working with countless other international
producers and DJs. In last year he flexed
beats and cuts with such artists as Mix Master
Morris, Spearhead, Jonah Sharp and Bill Laswell.
Beyond affiliations and parenthetic associations
Mei-Lwun is a DJ's DJ and is most at home
behind the decks rocking out in front of a
crowded dance floor. Read
more...
Quote from the
Artist: "NextAid
is a wonderful opportunity for artists to
do what they love in support of a greater
good. there is not much in life which is more
rewarding."
Links:
www.mei-lwun.com,
www.unorecordings.com
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Michele Bass
 Michele Bass has been involved in the electronic music industry for the past 15 years as a performer, music producer, events producer, record store owner and DJ. Michele had a music video that circulated on MTV's AMP show, along with producing music for a few spots and independant movies. Michele Bass was one the initial co-founders and producers of the BANTU Mystic Family Circus www.mystikfamilycircus.com. Through her events company Mystik Alchemy www.mystikalchemy.com, Michele helped to set a new precedent of events in Los Angeles in uniting the performance art and burning man community to blend together with multimedia and various performance and music communities along the west coast and beyond. Mystik Alchemy has also been commissioned by Cirque du Soleil and the Los Angeles Weekly. In 2004, she was initiated into the Los Angeles Breakbeat Association www.labadj.com, and has traveled globally to drop her big bass love beats all over the planet!
Quote from the Artist: "I believe it is every person’s responsibility on the planet to face the state of emergency that earth is in right now. The issues of Africa are severe and Next Aid has a conscious approach in which how the children of Africa can begin to endure a better future that is in balance with environmental sustainability."
"AIDS has been a growing epidemic for many years now. Unless it is addressed and people are given the education and supplies they need to keep it from spreading and infecting, it will continue to grow, as it has, out of control and give little to no hope for future generations. Education is the key."
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| Mick
Cole
SOL!D
Selector and the BUD BROTHERS
Immigrating from London England to L.A. in
1987 Mick is the original SOL!D Selector and
as one half of the Bud Brothers Dj duo he
has produced the legendary Monday Social event
every week with partner Freddy Be for over
9 years. The Monday Social has been a staple
event responsible for breaking and introducing
many electronic artists into the US dance
music markets. He has also produced weekly
events for the Viper Room where he programmed
music and booked talent for Johnny Depp’s
electronic music night Atmosphere and was
also hired to create the musical sound track
to Woody Harlsen’s Oxygen Bar. He plays
his signature eclectic sets all over the world
and has been chosen to open the stage for
some the worlds finest Dj’s and artists.
The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Moby, Orbital
and Coldcut are some of the most memorable.
Mick currently runs his SOL!D Events company
where he produces events and books talent
for many of L.A.’s top night clubs and
restaurants. Each week you can find him holding
down his weekly residencies at the Nacional
, Moonshadows, Viper Room and Avaland.
Links:
www.budbrothers.com
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| Miguel
Migs
 San
Francisco’s Miguel ‘Migs’
has become a top-tier DJ and remixer in the
house scene, largely due to his Petalpusher
releases on Naked. Thick, chunky drums, rich
basslines and a pronounced dub sensibility
are hallmarks of the Petalpusher sound, all
wrapped together and injected with a serious
dose of dancefloor fever. Miguels' debut album
for Naked is due in 2002 and features plenty
more of the infectious, unforgettable Petalpusher
tracks like "Breaking It Down" and
"Rely on Me". Always on the road,
keep an eye out for Miguel bringing the Naked
vibe to a club near you!
Quote from the
Artist: "We
can do something to help. Being in a position
like many artists no matter how big or small,
they have more power than they realize to
make a statement. Contributions to this situation
can come in many forms; participating in events
and other things that NextAid is doing are
essential for us to bring people together
for awareness and fundraising to actually
help the cause.... I support that completely
and hope others do as well because it's a
serious situation and needs attention..."
Links: www.astralwerks.com/migs,
www.naked-music.com
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Monty Luke aka ML Tronik
 Monty Luke comes with a long history of bringing a funky, raw eclectic sound to the west coast underground. Dubbed a favorite amongst local DJ's and 'those that know' for years, Monty has continued to set the bar high for himself and his listeners, melding his upfront, cut-up DJ mix style and electrifying presence to dancefloors worldwide.
In 2002, Monty released "What U Feel," a collaboration between himself and reclusive producer extraordinaire L. Ray Robinson under the moniker Loopwreckas on the Imperial Dub label. Monty also has recorded with Stompy Hi-Fi resident DJ Tasho and they have completed a two-track e.p. for Claude Von Stroke's Mothership label entitled "Paranoid," Be on the lookout for more solo productions as ML Tronik, in particular "The Diamond Boxx e.p." which was co-produced in Detroit in 2006 with the help of legendary producer Carl Craig. A follow up to 'Paranoid' called "Personal Problems" will be out on Mothership by the end of 2007.
He currently is resident DJ at Demon Days, a nationwide event which features DJ sets by Detroit legend and producer Carl Craig. The party takes place in San Francisco 4 times each year and has had guests such as Lindstrom and Lazy Fat People.
In 2007, Monty remains focused on bringing that raw, eclectic electronic disco to the world through both his DJ sets, and original productions. The future of house is now. Go get some No-Doze!
Quote from the
Artist: "We need to inform people of the political, social and economic issues affecting Africa as well as increase awareness about the global spread of AIDS."
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Links:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html
http://www.myspace.com/mltronik
http://www.mltronik.com
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