Samamtha Kern aka Sassmouth returns from London for her fourth HEMF appearance. Sam’s DJ sets reflect her love of dialectics - a tribute to her early explorations into musical yin and yang, string quartets and punk rock bands. Stripped down sounds mutate into jacking funky house, punchy techno, and beautiful sub bass lines and melodies. Sam plays underground venues and club events throughout the world and hosts a friendly and supportive online home for the electronic dance music community on her website naughtybadfun.org. |
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Hyperdimensional Spacefunk Pioneer Evan Marc Bartholomew aka Bluetech is one of the masters of deep electronica production today. He's been on the road with collaborator and producer KiloWatts showcasing their Invisible Allies project. Evan resently released the Amazon Benefit album Rainforest Reverbation. |
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Neil Kurland is an omnipresent force in the Baltimore music scene. He's a multi-faceted DJ who masterfully blends deep and sexy tech house, hip hop and drum & bass in his charismatic performances. Neil's production company Soul Mob Productions is dedicated to creating beautiful vibes at their visionary art events. Unfortunately Neil had to cancel for this year and is planing to be back next time, which gives us the great pleasure to welcome this next fine gentleman: |
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Multi faceted electronic music artist Ricardo Rodrigues Feher aka Polyrhythmic has been enchanting the Big Island dance communiy with his gigs at Off the Grid productions around the island. He seasons his tasty chicken-fried breaks with sultry latin house and anything yummy he can squeeze into the mix. |
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Kona resident DJ Brian Lamb aka Unit:E resonates the spirit of Aloha and universal love through his passion for electronic dance music. Spreading his good vibes on the dance floor and teaching DJ fundamentals to Big Island youth is his way of bringing more harmony and compassion into our world. |
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Elizabeth Dowell aka EH3 is an art junkie who studies music and medicine, has a degree in opera & sings in 6 different languages. She works with dogs/cats/barnyard animals/exotic and pocket pets in the middle of the night, is not afraid of getting bitten or running at 3 in the morning. She deals with crazy cat ladies and spins some wicked techhouse. |
Adam Stolz learned how to mix records with old white labels and obscure techno cuts from his mentors in the Midwest area. His sound forged into something more off kilter than some of his peers where playing at the time eventually finding a calm balance between his love for both techno and house music. Always keeping a mystique of the dark yet not ignoring his passion for rhythm, you can find both influences in his productions distinctly. Adam lives in Chicago and continues to push his creative boundaries both with music and art. |
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Jake Penn aka Mumukshu is a recent Big Island Love transplant from Minneapolis. He creates a twisted sound liberated from the cookie cutter Dubstep mantra filled with beautiful crunchy bass lines and tribal beats and fractual elements of soulful electronica. |
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Sky Makai sharpens his performance skills playing shows across the island spinning his own cuts and masterfully arranged re-mixes. This music lover keeps evolving his style in multiple directions. Always full of ideas he is excited to continue working with voice and live music elements. |
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Craig Kohland is the founder of Shaman's Dream music collective and recently launched the online music service Yogitunes. This talented musician and world music producer is committed to create music, art, movement and sacred ritual to elevate the human spirit. Craig splits his time between the west coast and Big Island and produces the Groove Temple with collaborator Sprocket. |
Tai Blackford aka Tai Sun has been an integral part of the Big Island dance music community since it's early Full Moon days. Splitting his time between Hawaii and New Zealand his style has fused into a mix of mashed up hip hop, deep seductive house, breakbeats, smooth rolling dub step, smashing 80's classics, electro, dnb and world funk. |
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Anne Nutall aka Annabelle is poised to bring her sonic yumminess back to the HEMF dance floor. With her unique musical imagination she captures her audience and keeps pushing bounderies to create magic carpet rides. Open your mind and get ready to fly.
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A/V composer Toben Lindell brings his sounds and sights to our festival for the first time. His pet project Fuzz Box with former Chicago friend and rebel rouser Trevor has been spoon feeding deliciousness into Maui earholes and we are thrilled to have the two at HEMF together at last. |
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Sifting thru the mythologies of the ancient world Arcane seeks to re-discover the lost secret and to peer behind the veil and uncover the magik that flows like a river across the ocean of Eternity. He is dedicated to visualizing the sacred Divine that permeates all matter. As a Cyber Shamanic Wizard he strives to make the unseen visible, to enliven, entrain and enrapture. |
Bobby Bottorff aka Samyaza is a talented waveform manipulator from Minneapolis specializing in chill/downtempo and eclectic psychedelic live electronica. Samyaza skillfully stitches together a sound fabric made of dripping bass lines, dub delays, broken beats, and chopped-up organic recordings. Big Island Love is excited to have him and colaborator Mumukshu at HEMF for the first time. |
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Merkaba is the video project of Trevor Arnholt who is excited to delight us with his visual magic with collaborator Toben Lindell. Trevor is one of the pro-creators of the Maui Source Festival and co-founded the Fuzz Box, which feature independent film, music and performance art of all sorts.A Merkaba is a divine light vehicle that can connect one to higher realms of consciousness, enable one to time travel and experience great harmony of the spirit and body. The Merkaba is made up of two polar electromagnetic fields in the shape of opposing, counter rotating star-tetrahedrons. Every living creature has a Merkaba field of energy around it. Once aware if this, the possibilities are endless…. |
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