Category Archives: ARTISTS

Sammy Gold first started out as a D.J. or toaster as it was known in those days. In 1978 at the age of 15 years old he found that he was getting inspiration from artists such as Clint Eastwood, Big Youth, Trinity and I. Roy to mention a few, so Sammy decided to try his voice as a D.J. He never achieved much success at that time, so it was in 1979 he decided to change his direction to singing.

It was singers such as Rod Taylor, Anthony Johnson, Glen Washington, Icho Candy, Michael Rose, Michael Prophet, Linval Thompson, Johnny Osbourne, Eek A Mouse, Little John, Don Carlos, Gregory Isaacs, Wayne Wade, Johnny Clark, Hugh Mundell, Junior Reid and Dennis Brown that Sammy would focus on.

In 1987 he came to live in Wolverhampton and linked up with Dread Lester, Ras Muffet and the Q sound crew, they released Sammy Gold’s first single called ‘Call Me Anytime’. Two years later the second release was ‘Girl I Like Your Style’. His third release came in 1996 on the Motivate Movement label, a track called ‘She’s Gone’. To date, this track has had the most success.

Sammy Gold has linked up with various producers around the world to voice a selection of serious roots and culture tunes. He has also voiced many dubplate specials for some of the top sounds systems like King Earthquake, Iration Steppas, One Love, Raggattack, Stereotronic…..AND THE LIST JUST GOES ON.

MOPHONO,

who set out to master the machines that threatened to be the masters of men, was born in 1976 in the Bay Area. From his early childhood he showed a strong passion for science, math and music. He was to be an inventor/engineer, but music had the greater gravitational pull, and he finally devoted himself to electronic music.

Mophono aka DJ Centipede wanted “to take the mystery out of the legend that says electronic music is an art that is esoteric, exclusively reserved for a few initiates, an elite of avant-garde intellectuals and artists” he adds “it deserves to be raised to the level of popular music, a music designed for fun and relaxation” and so Circuit studios was born in Lower Haight, San Francisco for the experimental researches of Thug Jazz and Dirt Wave.

While electronic and sample based music matured In the nineties, so did Mophono’s career as the most successful experimental electronic dance music DJ in the bay area. Booked at many of the underground raves until April of 1998 when one Oakland warehouse dance floor collapsed during one of his epic DJ sets, ending an era and starting a new one. DJ Centipede aka Mophono then focused his attention on the growing bay area beat scene, perfected his production and beat juggling skills while promoting San Francisco’s most forward thinking events.

Since then Mophono has released two full length albums and a slew of singles giving birth to two new genre’s Thug Jazz and Dirt Wave and a new standard in the record indus­try called Skip on Beat.

Inspired by 60’s psyche and experimental electronic music, Mophono Is known for his destructive drum breaks and heavy and orchestral instrumental compositions. With his legendary “Change the Beat” party in San Francisco, Mophono is so deep in the beat culture melting pot he is stirring it. Performing live on Boiler Room with long time partner Gaslamp Killer and sharing the stage with DJ Shadow, Flying Lotus, Amon Tobin, Edan, DJ Food, DJ Krush, Dabrye, Diplo and De La Soul with his Skip on Beat records, drum machines and moogs, Mophono intends to set a new standard in live electronic music performance.

Slim Levy is a multi faceted artist. Initially a professional bassist, he fell in love with the golden age of Jamaican music of the 60s and 70s after a formative tour alongside the legendary Lee “Scratch” Perry.

In 2020 he launched his career as a producer. At his home studio in Strasbourg / France he keeps exploring the magic of imperfection, always on the search for sound artifacts, to shape his distinct sound. He released the albums “Give Me That Cheese” and “Cooking Sessions 1 & 2” alongside Tribuman on Bat Records.

On stage, he shares his passion for reggae and organic dub with the audience with self-deprecating humor. Get your Walkmans and neon tracksuits ready, Slim Levy is coming to your town soon!

Dubsworth is a multi-instrumentalist producer and composer based in the Los Angeles area. With a rich musical background performing in dozens of bands across genres—from jazz over rock to disco—his journey into electronic music began in the early Dubstep scene of 2007. There, he quickly gained recognition as one of the first ever artists to blend live instruments with Dubstep production.

Dubsworth’s genre-defying sound has earned him a broad range of releases and features, with tracks appearing on CSI: Miami and coverage in outlets like The Huffington Post. His musical collaborations span the globe, including current works with the rising UK-based disco house outfit Golden Gate, releases with Jahtari label head Disrupt, and a mind bending solo record exploring meditative, bass guitar-driven soundscapes.

Ever-evolving and boundary-pushing, Dubsworth continues to channel his sonic versatility into projects that defy categorization—spreading his musical chameleonism across the world.

Cosmic Threat are bass clarinet black belt Volker Hemken (from Gewandhausorchester Leipzig), Kiki Hitomi (WaqWaq Kingdom, King Midas) and disrupt, who met for the Two Play To Play project – a collaboration between electronic and classically trained musicians here in Leipzig. 

The goal was to develop tracks for an one hour piece, and then perform it live at the Gewandhaus concert hall. Improvising and jamming together over various sessions in an empty club due to lockdown, developing a collective feeling for moods and textures and growing song strucutures together turned out to be a spiritual journey.

The result is a one-of-a-kind Space Jazz Dub record, knitting those Cosmic Threads in real time…