Aaron Scindian

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Aaron is a music lover born and raised in Staten Island, NY. Growing up listening strictly to plenty of Jazz, Soul, and R&B, he quickly fell in love with classic Hip-Hop and its familiar sample material. While he's not coding software / teaching workshops, he's constantly adding to his vinyl record collection and chopping them up on his Roland samplers: making beats and remixes the old-fashioned way. Inspired by Adult-Swim bumps and beats from the likes of 9th Wonder, Madlib, MF DOOM, Cookin Soul, etc., Aaron loves using instrumental hip-hop / remixes [often paired with 90s inspired visuals] to explore and further appreciate the many artists and musical cultures that empower Hip-Hop.

https://linktr.ee/d3signer.dr3ams

Bianca Perez

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Brenden Sanchez

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Brenden is an artist, songwriter, producer from Brooklyn, NY. Growing up in the church, music started out as therapy. It quickly transitioned into a craft and a passion in the early teenage years. Brenden can be seen as an actual example of what it means to grind and hustle. From writing to learning to record himself, producing and curating events in Brooklyn with a full band, he's proof that it's a slow climb. Being both a public speaker and an overall creative, Brenden seeks to not only make a difference and a mark in the industry but to influence and give youth the tools to excel and make their own marks on the world.

www.brendenofficial.com

Christian Vargas

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El Blanco Nino aka Christian Vargas is a music producer from The Bronx, New York. What started as a hobby of sending tracks back and forth online has grown into a catalog of online music releases from chopped and screwed edits, future bass releases, club music releases with a wide range of underground artists, and diving into the genre of footwork. 
Always switching sounds you can see his musical evolution on his latest mix for Like That Records and catch his monthly residency mixes for Half Moon Radio

Always one not to stay with one sound, you can catch Blanco’s musical evolution on his bandcamp page and catch him doing mixes for Brooklyns one Halfmoon Radio every month.

Elblanconino.bandcamp.com

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Dale Novella

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Reared in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Dale Novella is a singer/songwriter, poet and educator who performs and produces events in the New York City area.  A captivating performer, Novella has graced various stages in both the US and Europe including The Bitter End, The Bowery Poetry Club, and is a regular at SoFar Sounds.  Novella also uses her love of music to educate youth in social justice and the arts.  

Dale Novella is heavily influenced by soul singers like Otis Redding, old school Motown, and 90s RnB and Rock.  She christened herself "The Mutron Angel" after hearing an ethereal R&B tune on Outkast's Idlewild soundtrack entitled "Mutron Angel" and performed by Whild Peach. This branding reminds Dale Novella the Mutron Angel to make music that is conscious, authentic, and funky.

Novella began The REC Life (Royaltie Entertainment Company) in 2011 to produce and promote music that inspires and uplifts.  The REC's flagship event is "The Poet WILL Be Televised" at Harlem’s Silvana, a poetry jam session that fuses Dale's loves, good music and soul wrenching poetry.  Keep up with Dale Novella by following her on Instagram, YouTube and at her website www.dalenovella.com. 

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Devoye Folkes

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Devoye is a multidisciplinary musician, producer, engineer, and DJ. Heavily grounded in the forms of Hip-Hop, Indie/Alternative Rock, Electronic and various dance music genres like House and Techno.

Entranced by the empathic connections made between individuals and sound, Devoye explores the natural and ethereal through various realms of sound.

“I aim to provide a diverse arrangement of feelings, spread throughout a breath of styles.

Reflecting on emotions reveal the most supreme moments in life. The strongest of each emotion is communicated back through my conscious being in various forms of music, art, and conversation.“

- Devoye

devoye.bandcamp.com

Ernest Conry Jr

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Ernest is a producer, artist, and audio engineer from New Jersey. With a mix of formal music training in his youth and self teaching in his college years, he has been producing and engineering for over 17 years in a multitude of genres from R&B, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk and House to just name a few.

Exe Xourias

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Exe (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator currently located in Brooklyn, NY. They have previously worked in various educational and alternative settings supporting youth development intellectually, creatively, and professionally. Exe is primarily interested in the intersection of education and music, and how creativity can be harnessed as a tool for personal and community development. Creatively, they have worked as a composer, instrumentalist, and sound engineer for theatrical productions and music projects, and they are currently working on the release of their debut album. They are currently finishing their MFA in Sonic Arts and Integrated Media from CUNY - Brooklyn College.

Jaida Brown

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Joshua Anagbo

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I'm a freelancer living in Brooklyn. I specialize in film post production, electronic music production and performance.

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Judah Carelock

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Cornell Carelock also known as Lord Judah is a mindfulness practitioner and instructor, professional artist, advanced teaching artist, and student of comics, creative writing, music production, and music culture. He has worked along with many civic-based organizations, schools, and community groups, regarding Social Justice and Social Action and Continues to develop creative strategies for translating positive proactive messaging into his Art and Art workshops. He utilizes the practice of mindfulness and heart-based meditation to stay grounded in his service to humanity to allow all participants to receive the most from the space that he creates for them. Through a unique blend of all his learned techniques and strategies, he has developed a self-healing instructional program he calls "True He (ART) Academy". It is Judah's mission to be a leader in mindfulness and arts integration, and influence those from his generation to look at how art, but more specifically music impacts mental health.

Justine Thompson

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Leon Kelly

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Luis Batista

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Born in the Bronx and raised across the boroughs of New York, Luisito grew up in a Dominican and religious household. Going to school in Brooklyn and attending college at the age of 20, Luisito paves a path for himself dwelling into multiple fields including DJing, Radio Podcasting, videography, and recording music. With the workings of video editing, Luisito has been able to create and assist video projects for other underground artists like himself and continues to collaborate and enhance art through software’s like Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Picking up skills of DJing, Luisito has been able to perform sets involved within the creative youth program Building Beats and continues to expand beyond. Recording music also became a passion along the way and diving into different genres like trap and electronic music. Looking to help provide another platform for other artist to showcase their talents, Luisito involved himself as the host in the Building Beats Radio Show every month at Newtown Radio, a radio station in Williamsburg Brooklyn. With these skills, Luisito continues to help, create, and preform in the underground scenes of New York.

Max Horwich

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Max Horwich is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist and multimedia designer who has been making music for as long as he can remember. His work is interdisciplinary and spans (among other things) software design, video production, writing, and food, but with one foot always planted in the world of sound. He has been composing, recording, performing and DJing for over a decade under the names Sewing Machines and (more recently) N0SERV1CE, as well as under his own name. He has previously led classes and workshops on music tech, game design, and creative coding at Pratt, NYU and UCBerkeley for students of all ages.

Michael Pasciolla

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Nai Davis

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Nathalie Barret-Mas

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Natie is an artist from Réunion island, currently based in Brooklyn.

With a looper, violin & vocals, she builds full tracks live, with flavors of Soul, Electronic and World music. Fresh off a world tour with Beyoncé and Jay-Z, she's launched her solo career with the release of her single "Sirens" and "HKHT."

Recent performances include solo sets for 100 Years 100 Women @ Lincoln Center, Transcendence @ Sultan Room, The Revolution @ National Sawdust, and AfroPunk Battle of the Bands.

Through her music, Natie aims to share and nurture authentic connections, more dialogue and openness around some of the differences which currently divide us. Her debut EP ""In the Key of Fall"" came out last Spring, drawing connections between her native land, Réunion, and her new home, NYC.

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Ricky Zoker

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Yatta Zoker (YATTA) is an artist, musician, performer, and educator from Houston, Texas. Over the years, YATTA has shared the stage with musicians like Cardi B and The Sun Ra Arkestra, creating multimedia performances that tour astrally, nationally, and globally.

Yatta has performed at MOMA PS1, MOMA, The Getty, and more. Their music has been highlighted in magazines like Pitchfork, Tiny Mixtapes, Fact Mag, Nylon, and The Wire. They are a former artist-in-residence of Pioneer Works and Flux Factory.

As an educator, Yatta has facilitated workshops and panels at The New School, The Brooklyn Museum, NYU, Vassar College, and Cornell University. They received their MFA from Bard College.

Yattazoker.net/about

Riel Paley

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Sky Paley is a professional story teller who hails from the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

He has successfully worked in film, TV, stage, and audio as a writer, producer, director, actor, and educator for the past 20 years.

Paley is perhaps best known for his critically acclaimed one-man play Antiman, which he first workshopped with The Echo Theater Company. It premiered in Los Angeles in 2011 to positive notices from the LA Weekly ("...a Triumph!"). The play has since gone on to sold out performances in New York and Toronto with particular attention paid to his mesmerizing transformation into a local West Indian.

He is presently the Artistic Director of the LA THTR TRUK bringing THTR directly to the broad and diverse communities of Los Angeles.

Rob Kelley, aka Robzilla, is from Honolulu, Hawaii and was raised under the palm tree emoji. Yep, it's true. He grew up on reggae, punk and hip-hop. He's released an EP of dancehall reggae tunes on the Brooklyn label Dutty Artz. He's had his songs played on the radio in New York, Jamaica and London. He produces dancehall using Ableton Live and the Push controller. He's DJed gigs across New York and the US over the last 20 years.

Sutiweyu Sandoval

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Sutiweyu Sandoval is a Guatemalan Garifuna facilitator and music lover who organizes cultural events and mixes up Pan-African flavors in his workshops.

A fundamental love of music and movement has always been a part of Sutiweyu Sandoval's life. His passion for dance transitioned seamlessly into Djing and music production which led to a global impact within the street dance world as "K. Sabroso".

Interested in exploring the dance music on a broader scale; he rebranded as "Broso" and began combining music from across the African Diaspora and fusing it with electronic flavors, hood elements and his own Central American roots. The popularity of this innovative mix led to performances and residencies at clubs and parties across the globe.

Alongside the creative output, there has been an arts education component for 2 decades. Beginning with dance and leading to music appreciation, production and Djing lessons, Sutiweyu has taught across all age ranges in various parts of the world.

Currently, Sutiweyu is focused on leveraging the lessons of his creative journey into developing educational resources and community events with a distinct emphasis on South Los Angeles.

https://soundcloud.com/brosomusic

Yovelah EyTina

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Singer • Songwriter • Producer • Audio Engineer

Yovelah is a native New York Christian artist, who began her musical journey at the tender age of 3yrs. old as a singer. Subsequently, she began songwriting, and producing her own music while producing for independent artists in Chicago as well as New York City. Her most recent
productions and colaborations are on her website.

www.yovelah.com