This Grammy-nominated lyricist has appeared on albums with the likes of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious and Fatboy Slim. He's also played with the groups Latyrx and Maroons. And is one of the founding members of SoleSides, a collective of hip-hop enthusiasts that met up at UC Davis in the early '90s and went on to launch the highly successful indie label Quannum Projects.

Currently a member of the hip hop supergroup "The Mighty Underdogs", formed by himself, Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, and producer Headnodic of the Crown City Rockers.

AZEEM's an original. The rapper's rapper, a creative lyricist and a conscious mind.
Past winner of an Independent Music Award for "Best Hip Hop" and more recently the winner of BET's "Ya Heard Artist Of The Month".
His music can be heard on the HBO hit series Entourage, the Adidas website, MTV, and BET to name a few.

ZEPH's productions can be heard on the HBO hit series Entourage and the Adidas website, along with ESPN's NBA 2k5 video game, the Palm Pictures movie Scratch, MTV, MTV2, and MTVU to name a few. Also a past winner of an IMA and the SF Weekly's DJ/Turntablist of the year award, as well as being considered one of Urb magazines next 100.

Azeem and Zeph "Latin Revenge"

Nikola's known to play sets comprised of the deepest house to the chunkiest techno and all the frequencies in between.

San Francisco's own Claude Von Stroke, mastermind behind the internationally acclaimed Dirtybird label, hailed Nikola as one of the best techno DJs in San Francisco. His talents have also landed him gigs at every major venue in the City as well as residencies at some of San Francisco's most internationally recognized venues, including The Endup and the now closed but always legendary club, The Top.

Nikola is also one of the crucial components of San Francisco's minimal-techno collective, Kontrol, currently one of the most respected techno parties in North America.

Starting her DJ journey in the 1990's San Francisco underground, Forest Green continues to explore the art of rocking the dance floor, and mastering the mix. 12 years later, she continues taking things to the next level, amazing crowds with her high energy, hot bass lines, and soul gripping grooves. Expect to hear only the freshest jamz, as she searches high and low for the most cutting edge, floor shaking, booty quaking EDM the world has to offer, and brings it straight to you! Forest is a featured DJ in the popular, indie film GROOVE. GROOVE was accepted to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in 2000, and was the first film bought that year by Sony Picture Classics. Groove is an independent feature film based on one night in the San Francisco Underground Rave Scene back in the early 1990s.

aka Spacetime Continuum played an important role during the 90's in consolidating the global experimental ambient and techno scene through his Reflective Records imprint as well as releasing a string of solo studio albums on Astralwerks and Virgin Records.

He has worked with many artists including a live album with writer and philosopher Terence McKennna, and collaborations with Mixmaster Morris, Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra, Pete Namlook, Ursula Rucker, Move D, Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell to name but a few.

He has remixed the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto and Matt Herbert and had his music in numerous movies including Darren Aronofsky's 1998 movie "π".

Gavin started producing music when he moved to San Francisco to start the eponymous record label Hardkiss Music.

Managing the Hardkiss label in the early 90s, he helped foster a new psychedelic dance sound with releases of his own creation as well as releases from Rabbit-in-the-Moon, God Within, Little Wing, T Tauri and Symbiosis.

Over the past decade, he has remixed the likes of Led Zeppelin, Elton John and The Beatles, performed alongside Snoop Dogg and The Buena Vista Social Club and released original recordings in Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Gavin has also developed a successful international DJ career, jetting out weekends to entertain funky hedonists with his provocative beats and gamma rays. He has traveled the world presenting a hybrid sound of house, techno funk and electronic precipitation.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Gavin Hardkiss now makes his home across the Golden Gate Bridge near the city by the Bay.

DJ/vocalist/producer hailing from San Francisco. On any given weekend, if he's not behind the decks (he played over 100 gigs during 2008), you'll likely find him on the dancefloor, which is what makes the 10-year veteran a dancer's DJ.

Mozaic has built a reputation on solid mixing and fearless genre-hopping: tech-house, techno, broken beat, 2-step, midtempo and dub all find their way into his arsenal- sometimes within a single set. Recently, you also may have seen/heard Mozaic's collaboration with EPROM, Hookerz & Blow; they've been laying waste to dancefloors up and down the West Coast with their live dj/laptop sets, and had recent remixes rinsed by everyone from Basement Jaxx to Jesse Rose to Annie Mac.

Dreamwalking [downtempo, IDM, hip-hop, and dancehall]

The Fingermonsters consist of Andrew Phelan, Cubik, George Cochrane and Shawn Allen, four friends working together out of San Francisco's famed Moulton Studios complex.

Between their various solo careers and collaborations, these four have had album and EPs out on labels such as Amenti, Body Rhythm, Dinner Party, Drop Music, Eight-Tracks, Prismatic, So Sound and Wide Hive.

Together as The Fingermonsters, the four produce a unique mix of big room tech house, breaks, techno, and electro. Their live PA is a site to behold, with all four members freaking out together onstage on a variety of synths, drum machines, laptops, and general insanity.

Naked Slice
(aka Squid Eye)
RenegadeVirus
OtherWorld
DnB / Jungle / Breakcore

Nakedslice's tracks combine crisp, intricate breakbeat programming and old school jungle stylings, all propelled by pounding hardcore kicks and interwoven with thoroughly absurd sample manipulations.

Oakland based dj and producer Nakedslice has been an integral part of nyC's underground free party movement, tearing up the decks with his signature blend of hardcore tech and ragga jungle and unleashing his original compositions both solo and as a founding member of nyC's virus renegade outlaw crew and of "team bring it."

Naked Slice live @ Mutantfest 2008

SQUID EYE = DUBSTEP GLITCH AND GHETTO

Santa Cruz based DJ, promoter, and producer Rastatronics has been on the decks since 1998 spinning an eclectic mix of underground electronic music and reggae influenced tracks, that gives his sets an exciting and singular sound.
He has become focused on pushing the dubstep style as a founding member of the Subwize DJ collective and through his partnership with Bay Area event promoters Raindance and MalLabel Music.
Rastatronics' collaboration with Canadian producer DZ on a remix of Pink Floyd's seminal "Comfortably Numb" receiving international attention.

Glitched, chopped, and beaten like the redheaded bastard lovechild of Si Begg, Aaron Spectre, and Audiovoid 'Memekast - mk2systems.com'.

Hysterisis Loop is working on a long player for Lunatic Works, due to drop this early next year with guest appearances by Angel Zero and psyche-breakbeat pioneer Jack Dangers.

Tekasaurus Rex will be playing beats, sounds, live video sample loops and video triggers during the show. Tekasaurus aka Takeshi is the most current member of Hysterisis Loop. He is also otherwise known as Xtra Man from 'Two Playa Game' http://www.myspace.com/twoplayagame

A past winner of the SF Weekly's DJ/Turntablist of the year award, as well as being considered one of Urb magazines next 100.

He's been on tour bills with DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, Talib Kweli, and Souls of Mischief, to name a few.
And done remixes for Z trip, Lateef, Lyrics Born, People under the Stairs, J-Boogie, Collosus, Capital A, Variable Unit, and members of Parliament Funkadelic, and more.

Hello folks, I am Jamie Ball. I make all sorts of music, but I guess I'm known (but not in the biblical sense) mostly for making techno music. Don't expect me to know ANYTHING much about (new) dance music though - never listen to that much of it... Aside from my own, of course - I'm not FULLY retarded :-P

Ripley is a resident at Suryadub, which has been at Club Six She was voted "Best Dance DJ of 2008" by the readers of the SF Bay Guardian.

Ripley has caused total dance mayhem in spaces like a re-purposed public lavatory underneath a street in East London, a former commercial fishing ship off the cost of Rostock, an (initially) laid-back lounge in Oakland California, a half-squatted office space in downtown Riga, the basement of an Indian restaurant in Bristol, as well as warehouses and clubs in most places you'd think and some you wouldn't.

Her wreckstep raggaphonics spill over and rumble under into dubdownbreak sound experiments and bounce back into nastybeast beats and rebroken booty bass. Ripley wants everyone to dance.

Colombian born Rico Predicate got his start DJing at parties thrown by various import-export companies based out of exotic locales like Medellin, Cali, Juarez, and Sinaloa.

After undergoing plastic surgery following a violent shootout at a quincenera he was attending, Rico is now living in West Oakland where he spins a mixture of obscure electro, hip-hop, italo-disco, ghetto funk, and cumbia.

"I play funky music with a bit of menace thrown in. I like to make the girls dance and the guys nod their heads," explains Rico. His special Halloween set will be be sure get all the ghouls, gangsters and girls dancing up a storm.

Dan The Builder is a classically trained musician who strives to combine tantalizing aspects of music in a fusion of electrically driven tour de force de BASS!!!

Get down with music you can feel. Bass that will shake your ass for you!!

"VANKMEN are from oakland, ca. Their music is a mashing of all hardcore/breakcore/speedcore/noise. Releases on and affiliated with Realicide, RYR, Teen suicide, fap*, Their own diy label CRUNKCORE (fuck jokencyde), Deathbombarc and more. Live they perform using hardware drum machines/samplers/shit, lots of kickdrums and blastbeat gabber. They have played shows with people such as Rtype, Realicide, Beytah, Pu22l3, Flail, Th' Mole, Mc Subzero Permafrost, AllenIHatemyself, AND MORE.
H-rock: what do you want to put on the bio?
GodDamnSam: I don't know...just put something awesome."

Google BOGL & dubstep

The Hobo Gobbelins emerge from the pulsing art vortex of Oakland, Ca., the green-skinned child of punk rock, avant-garde performance art and hobo soul. Drawing on a dizzying array of influences, the band incorporates traditional sounds of Americana and the Old World with the horrors of modernity. Monsters from folklore and fiction wriggle alongside freight-train spirituals and drinking songs. The result is a disturbing haunted house for the ear, a nightmare carnival that is at turns goofy and murderous. Human audiences drink more, dance better, and writhe uncontrollably to goblin beatings- er, beats. Incidentally, audience is the goblin word for 'food that screams'.

Alixr [A*lix"ir]

1. (Music) A Bay Area DJ known for curing dancefloors of lethargy and boredom with his intuitive track selection, seamless mixing and contagious energy behind the decks.

Naturally eclectic with an appetite for dance music that pushes the sonic envelope, Alixr is arguably amongst the most versatile DJs in the circuit today. Whether he's dropping the latest dirty electro bombs, serving up a set of funky tech house, or thumping dancefloors with his full-on tribal techno, he can always be trusted to deliver only the most irresistible beats while staying true to his belief that at its full potential, music can free the soul.

"San Francisco-based Mossmoss has been essential in the growth of techno, and actively inspires audiences through his art, producing his own breed of minimal techno that inspires the mind and body simultaneously. His 2007 remix of Monocle's "Dilleniidae" (RCP) stole dancefloors the world over, with a take-no-prisoners, no compromises peak hour power house of rolling bass lines and unpredictable percussion. Playful, moody, yet jacking--Mossmoss brings a breath of fresh air to an oft-too pretentious club scene."

ghettotekravestepbootyjerkindub......

"His soundcloud from the SPAZ Bordello gig in October 2009 is- IMHO- THE best current mix circulating through the local tribes right now, totally nailing a fusion of dubstep, electro and grime." -Terbo Ted

Proud to represent West Oakland, Miz Rowdy spins dubstep straight from the heart. A little funky, a bit bassy, a tad hip hop, a slab of booty, a pinch of dub, and some salsa on the side;

Miz Rowdy serves it up big bassy style.

Notorious Pig vs Kelee Silva
OtherWorld
Techno / Electro House / Breaks

DJ NOTORIOUS PIG aka Ron Smith... long time runner OtherWorld and mr everything. Jungle, Trip Hop, Breaks, Dubstep, Techno and House. You may have caught him in SF playing a multitude of local venues.
For halloween mr pig will be bringing you some of the very best dark techno put out in recent times.

KELEE SILVA got introduced to the then popular San Francisco underground house scene in the late nineties and quickly found his own 'groove' within the scene. Spending the early to mid two-thousands experimenting with deep, soulful and funky house tracks, he moved away from his gateway genres, in late two-thousands, to spin electro house, tech-house, minimal techno, and breaks. KELEE's love for vinyl mixing has evolved as he recently made the leap from vinyl to cdjs. Currently KELEE is known for incorporating new cutting edge tracks within his sets, while playing tracks with rolling bass lines and pulsating percussion.

Claire Evans White aka Dj Clairity started her career in the electronic music industry in 1997, djing at local events and clubs in Sonoma County.

She quickly adapted to the San Francisco scene and moved there in 2000. Upon moving she started throwing her own techno events* in SF. Such as Sequence, Scatter, Impulse, Minimal Mondays, Synapse, Unmade, Teknotika SF and other one time events all over the bay area.

Though Claire is mainly a hard techno dj, in 2003 she began spinning minimal techno and micro. Playing along side such djs and performers as: Adam X, Dietrich Shonoman, Jon Williams, Chris Jackson, Twerk, Mochipet, Broker Dealer, Cybrid, Forest Green and many others.

"it's a party ya'll we gon get it poppin like the mardi gras"