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Phil Smart

Phil has been playing records to people in clubs, warehouses and fields across the world for over 15 years. In 2000, Phil was voted Australian DJ of the Year at the inaugural National Dance Music Awards and has appeared twice in DJ Magazine's list of the world’s Top 100 DJs. Phil was also one of the founders of seminal Australian electronic labels Think and Thunk, releasing music as Altitude and Earthlink.
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Quote from the Artist: "I think one of the most pressing concerns is the amount of children growing up without the love and guidance of parents they’ve lost to AIDS."

Links: www.junkbeats.com

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Richard Humpty Vission

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Rithma
An LA transplant who received a warm welcome (not to mention a record deal) in the Bay Area, this young DJ/producer is currently working on his debut release for Om Records. Rithma was born Etienne Stehelin, and got his early training in jazz guitar. He names Miles Davis as his single most significant musical influence -- except perhaps his musician mother. Rithma's star has ascended rather rapidly so far: it was only in 1997 that he produced and self-released his first track, titled "Rithma 001." The record was largely a practice run; it wasn't until the second attempt, "Rithma 002", that he received any real attention from the music community. Follow-up tracks produced in collaboration with Scott Finley, a longtime friend and former bandmate, got released on Fiji Records in 1998 and 2000. The best-known is probably Rithma vs. Scott Finley. Stehelin's solo attempts got released through several underground dance labels including Tweekin Records in San Francisco and Beau Monde in the UK. He also contributed to Sounds of Om Volume 2 and released two EPs, Caffeine Sunshine and The Escape, on Om Records. Both title tracks received an excellent response from the dance community, inspiring Om to sign him to a multi-album deal.

An ardent world traveler with a quirky sense of humor and plenty of stage presence, Stehelin makes waves wherever he goes. As an Om artist, he plays some of the best venues in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He constantly pops up at smaller venues and underground parties however; he'll often give impromptu, unannounced performances that last for hours. This DJ became known for live sets of hard-hitting, energized tech-house. He continued to contribute to compilation CDs, including The 4AM Sound of Tech House, and began work on a full-length slated for release in mid 2003. ~ L. Katz, All Music Guide

Link: www.rithma.org, www.blue-collarent.com

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Ron Trent
Probably the only Chicago house producer to rate one of the best techno singles of all time, Ron Trent recorded his classic acid workout "Altered States" in 1990 but gradually moved away from mechanistic trance-state dance to embrace a deep house sound with plenty of African percussion. Born and raised in Chicago, Trent learned much about music from his father, a disco DJ. Still of high-school age when he recorded "Altered States" for Armando's Warehouse label, Trent reissued the track on the Dutch label Djax-Up-Beats in 1991, with remixes by Carl Craig.

He released a few other singles during the early '90s before hooking up with Detroiter Chez Damier, who'd recorded with techno star Kevin Saunderson and owned the legendary Music Institute club during the '80s. The pair recorded singles for Saunderson's KMS ("The Choice" as Chez 'N Trent, and "Don't Try" as Ron & Chez D), then opened up their own Prescription Records. The label made waves in deep house circles with its first release, Romanthony's "Wanderer." Trent and Damier also contributed to the label, with the Prescription Underground EP. The duo also recorded a pair of singles with Maurizio, the Berlin producer whose productions for Chain Reaction launched a wave of experimental techno singles.

Trent gradually moved from solo productions or collaborations with Damier to recruit a team of producers and vocalists named USG, for Urban Sound Gallery. Later based in Brooklyn, Trent and USG debuted with a beautiful deep-house cut titled "N Came U" on Clair Audience. He also gained a different partner, Anthony Nicholson. In 1999, two Trent full-lengths appeared on British labels. The first, USG's African Blues, was released on Distance, while the proper solo debut, Primitive Arts, appeared on Peacefrog. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Link: http://www.prescriptionworld.org

Quote: “It is an African proverb that says ‘It takes a whole village to raise a child', following that philosophy it is our responsibility as parents, adults, and human beings to take care of the youth that needs our time and energy for survival.”

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Simply Jeff

Simply Jeff, Southern California's original Breakbeat mogul known globally as a DJ/Producer who displays an eclectic blend of dance music into a well rounded breakbeat sound has proven to rock any crowd no matter where he performs. Recognized as a pioneer of the "Funky Breaks / West Coast Breakbeat House Sound” in Simon Reynold's novel "Generation Ecstasy," as well as a resident writer for Los Angeles based BPM magazine, running the premier US Breaks label Phonomental Music, his acclaimed record shop called DJ Culture, his streaming radio show on DJCULTURE.COM, performing in clubs to major events around the globe as well as holding down a monthly residency in his home town of Costa Mesa, California known as Tsunami Breaks and working in the studio with some of today’s top dance artist in the game, there is no doubt that Simply Jeff has become America's most beloved Breakbeat Dance heroes. Read more...

Quote from the Artist: "Our involvement with the AIDS epidemic in Africa will ultimately help the world end the greatest threat to global security.”

Links: www.simplyjeff.com

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Soulstice

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Swedish Egil

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Tracy Young

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