Artists — index

Miami-native Aaron Sheer is a self-produced artist. Growing up, he studied to be an operatic voice singer but in high school began to experiment with other genres of music. His sound could be described as a dreamy mix of R&B and Funk. Since 2016 he has released 1 solo album and 2 collaborative albums.

19-yr-old Angelo started his creative career as a DJ, while-immersing himself in graphic design and photography – designing concert flyers and album artwork for DJ's and musicians he was close with. From there he got into Hip-Hop and R&B, where he began experimenting with his artistry in freestyle competitions. With the turmoil of Angelo's home country pushing him out of Venezuela, he landed in Medellin, Colombia where he dove into Medellin's music scene as a designer and an artist. In 2018, Angelo started putting together his first records as an artist. Gathering inspiration from R&B superstars, Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Drake, and Michael Jackson, Angelo focused on creating sounds that fit the mainstream R&B-pop trends. Upon moving to Medellin, Angelo was re-inspired by the tropical Latin sounds of reggaeton, afrobeat, and dancehall. Here's Angelo's propuesta to us: "Create, risk, and enjoy. In music, in love, in everything."

Ashtrejinkins is a Compton based producer and DJ. Known for his involvement with the Low End Theory community, his work now takes on a new role in the world of uptempo electronic music. Ranging from low end hip-hop to techno and leftfield deep house.

Boundary is the alias of Josué Suero, an eighteen-year-old Dominican artist who mainly works with music inspired by several genres including outsider house, acid house and other artists associated with a lo-fi DIY aesthetic. Mixing both visual and musical components, Boundary explores and experiments with sound as a trigger for experiences.

Cult Exciter is an LA-based collaborative project by multi-instrumentalist 5iles and vocalist Z. Hailing from Santo Domingo, DR, childhood friends who started working together musically when living in Brooklyn. Their upcoming debut EP skirts the line between electronic and neo-soul with a touch of Afro-Caribbean rhythms that they term experimental soul.

Diego Raposo is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who has released music under a variety of aliases over the last decade. Founder of MITEL DICO – a collective and label of young, forward- thinking musicians and visual artists from the Dominican Republic. Diego is part of the new wave of producers pushing the latin sound to global stage, fusing pop, urban and electronic with local sounds like dembow, dancehall and other afro-caribbean genres. He also works with local acts as a producer and engineer while collaborating with international acts.

DJ Danifox started making music leisurely when he moved to the UK in 2014. He began digging deeper into the sounds of Lisbon underground music and from there he started featuring on other artists' works, collaborating with DJ Lycox and Deejay Ary on Principe Discos release 'Dorme Bem'. His style comes from Batida, Lisbon's term for underground music. Influenced by Kuduro, Tarraxo and Lisbon ghetto: a mix of African percussion and electronic melodies known as "techno".

DJ Erycox is the moniker for Erikson Afonso, the 22 year old Angolese Batida producer from Portugal who's currently residing in Clermont, France. Growing up in the suburbs of Lisbon's Quinta do Mocho neighborhood and moving to France as a teenager, he has been making music since he was 14 years old, first inspired by his older brother DJ Dadifox.

Ekstra Bonus is Dominican born LA-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work revolves around collaborations between artists and disciplines, exploring the relationships between them.

ELMAR BETE is the new collaborative project from Dominican producers and artists, Diego Raposo and Medio Picky. Fresh off their recent "Bate" collab from Diego's CARIBE EXPRESS, the new project is a departure from their usual style of production and ventures int more adventurous territory. ELMAR BETE was created as an opportunity for Diego and Medio Picky to play with their sounds and writing while singing and rapping everything on the project. The duo created these songs during a weekend in Santo Domingo, DR.

Ibraim Soto, producer known as Hibrido 2000 was born in Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela. At 21-years-old, Hibrido 2000 is influenced by disparate genres like reggaeton, lo-fi, synth wave and vapor; his work looks to achieve a hybrid of all the genres he references while making the genre his own. Over the years, he developed his interests and learned to incorporate influences like Çantamarta, Bomba Estéreo or Nesty "La Mente Maestra", who mixed EDM synths and reggaeton in 2012.

INVT is a music, fashion and visual art project by Luca Medici and Delbert Perez. They started making music together as 12-year-olds in Miami, playing in jazz bands, orchestras and rock bands before forming INVT.

Josean Jacobo (pronounced Ho-see-ann) is a pianist, producer, singer and songwriter from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and started writing his own music, performing at international jazz festivals like "Barranquijazz Festival", "Panamá Jazz Festival", "Guadlop Festival", "Dominican Republic Jazz Festival", and local venues. Taking inspiration from the afro rhythms of his native Dominican Republic, Josean is fusing jazz with more popular music styles of Dominican music, Neo Soul and electronic dance.

Kazitexx is a Haitian hip hop collective formed in 2011 consisting of LukaSWalker, Gino, Ti Fafa, Jay P, Dr. K, King J, DMB, PK$O, FIP, Oxxy and Marvens. The group has a distinct style – weaving Afro-Caribbean rhythms and a diversity of languages into Trap, Rap and Kompa.

Kelman Duran is a Dominican born, Bronx raised multimedia artist skirting the line between Institutional and Outsider work. Part of the Los Angeles based RAIL UP crew and a resident of NTS LA. In between touring Europe and the US, Kelman works on film projects like Open Air Prisons about South Dakota Indian Reservations and LACA resident letters to name a few.

Langi "Di Future" is a Jamaican singer fusing reggae and modern dancehall with genres like trap and house, giving a unique melodic blend to Caribbean fusions. Originally from Jamaica, in his teen years he had shown great skill in music and music theory, impulsing a move to study abroad in New York where he is currently studying music and audio engineering at the Sonic Art Center at CCNY.His music has received worldwide exposure via NYC's prominent hip-hop station, Power 105.1 along with a feature on INVT's 'Sofa' which garnered love from EARMILK. Langi stays close to his Caribbean roots via collaborations with Caribbean artists TWANI and Asha Parris, and most notably a radio freestyle with legendary dancehall veteran Aidonia.With Langi's fusion of reggae, trap, and dancehall, and an ever-increasing global interest in Caribbean music 'A Present' shows the world what "Di Future" is all about.

Pablo Alcantara "mediopicky" felt curious about how to create and mix sounds having grown up surrounded by different music styles. Today, this becomes the focus of his work encompassing many styles of electronic music where you will listen to mixes spanning merengue to rock or trap to cumbia, always loaded with a good measure of bass and occasional vocals, focusing his energy on the most important element: dance.

Latvian born, Detroit raised, Artem Emelianov a.k.a. Mess Kid, brings a unique mix of the nyc underground club sound with a touch of his Detroit ghetto-tech roots, taking the genres to new stages. Having toured with M.I.A, Opened for Nicky Minaj, Dj'd for A$AP Ferg and ghost produced for Giorgio Moroder. Mess Kid also has a side project under his real name where he took on the challenge to write and sing over his own productions and released an eponymous solo project.

PNGWNG (Penguin), is an Arab hip-hop collective based in Haifa, Israel who are making very forward thinking music for the region. The group's debut single "Ebn El Internet" translates to "Son of the Internet" and most of their lyrics are in Arabic. In the collectives own words, "The track explores the idea that the internet is the only certain place for us to go back to at the end of the day." It is very important to them that their music pushes an agenda of Arabs exploring more freedom through speech, art, and music. They set out to accomplish this through action and not only words. Through their music, they express opinions and ideas that push boundaries for Arab culture and hopes this influences a new generation.

Seyer, previously known as Jose Alejandro, is a Santiago-based artist and producer. Still relatively new to the electronic music scene, he has already developed his own distinct sound – blending the best of Caribbean rhythms and urban bass with a signature mayor chord progression. As part of the eclectic MITEL DICO collective, the 20-year-old released his first EP 'AHH' in 2015 under the name Jose Alejandro. In October 2016, he followed up with the harmonic 'Maybe' EP – a collaborative project with Diego Raposo.Recently signed to Los Angeles label Point Records, Seyer continues to thrive in the studio, sculpting his sound, and crafting dreamy trap and future bass tracks that transport us to the tropical beaches of Dominican Republic.

Tommy Violet, 24, found music in 2018 after deciding to end his division one college soccer career. Coming out of Dayton, OH Tommy's best friend in college got him into making music after taking him to a recording studio on campus. From then on he saw music as an outlet to channel the energy and emotions that came out of his life. Tommy leans heavily into his degree in philosophy to make sense of his experiences and transform them into the songs he writes.