Anna Müller and Paul Wallner founded HVOB (Her Voice Over Boys) in 2012. The duo focuses on "restrained and minimalist" electronica with the use of vocals. After releasing music on SoundCloud they were discovered by Oliver Koletzki, a German dance and house music producer. Koletzki contracted the duo and they later appeared at the Melt Festival. Their first EP Dogs was released in 2012. In 2013, the band released its first album HVOB. Their second album Trialog released in 2015 was said by American Thump magazine "as a contender for an 'Album of the Year' award". In 2015, the ...

flatspot_. is a group of unnamed individuals based in Oakland, creating both aural and visual loops of various types. The group has focused most recently on the concept of analog video feedback loops as means to build a visual world in which the audio may reside and find comfort. A narrative that underlies the visual and aural components has yet to reveal itself fully to the group, thereby realizing its truest form. However, the group has held onto one truth as a guiding principle since its inception; the simple concept that one only needs a flat space and their imagination ...

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 ...

Asonic Garcia is a producer and sound designer from the Bay Area, California. He works in the realm of sound healing through textural sonic compositions. He is also the curator and co-founder of Smart Bomb Oakland, a (retro)futurist arts and music community collective/live event platform which was honored in the 2017 YBCA 100 by Yerba Buena Center of the Arts.

A Detroit native attuned to the progressive continuum, Dakim honors those who laid the path: Ellington, Dilla, Scientist, Monk, and Rza are amongst his sages. He gives forth his own voice to merge with their resonance. Illumination bringing forth evolution through sound.