Apani aka Apani B-Fly Emcee, often referred to as Apani B. is a revered hip hop artist, author, entrepreneur and activist from Hollis, Queens in NYC. She is a founding member of the hip hop super-group Polyrhythm Addicts, along with fellow members DJ Spinna, Mr. Complex, and Shabaam Sahdeeq. Apani emerged during the golden era of the 90's to be considered a pioneer of New York City’s underground hip hop scene.
Apani has a prolific catalog beginning in 1994 and still growing she has had the honor and distinction to work with some of the most revered names in hip hop music, including Da Beatminerz, DJ Spinna, Nujabes, Talib Kweli, Jean Grae, Pharoahe Monch and many, many more. She has made a reputation for herself as a lyrical powerhouse and possesses a worldwide fanbase as a result of her many international collaborative projects. Apani is frequently named as not only one of the best female emcees and most distinctive voices in hip-hop music to ever grace the microphone but also regarded as an elite writer by any standard.
 Apani has toured internationally and been embraced by a loyal and ever growing fanbase as new listeners discover and relate to her music. She is singularly set apart by her ability to use her vocals to confidently project a large presence throughout every performance with her agile delivery as well as inspire with socially conscious themes while managing to not forget to entertain the listener. Now although a busy and dedicated mom of 3 beautiful and talented children, Apani continues to remain relevant as an important figure on the indie music scene. Apani continues to reach new levels artistically, always making new music and collaborating with varied artists, working as a makeup artist for several high end brands, expressing creativity through fashion, authoring books, as well as producing live shows and events through her company 2040MM.

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After meeting at university back in 2005, and starting as a DJ duo in 2007, Elijah & Skilliam's kinship has taken them around the world numerous times, and led to them working with pretty much every one of their local musical heroes. The DJ partnership that so far has been epitomised on two official mix albums (2011's Rinse:17 and 2014's FABRICLIVE75), a compilation series succinctly called 'Grime' (with editions in 2015, 2016 and 2017), over 300 radio shows for Rinse FM (2008-2014) and over 100 editions of their roaming club night they run independently, Jamz.

In 2010 they founded Butterz, the record label and club night to release music they were being sent from artists that later became their core roster: Swindle, Royal-T & Flava D. From 2010 to 2019 they had records featuring TQD, D Double E, Footsie, Ghetts, P Money, S-X, Joker, Flowdan, DJ Q and many more. 2020 is a reset year for the label, introducing new artists, alongside friends from the wider sphere of influence they have curated over the years. 

Butterz club shows have at their core represented Grime, but have always gone left and right of the sound bringing in producers from other worlds into their universe. The blueprint for what Butterz club shows are started in 2011 at their first club residency at the now closed Cable which featured guests such as Kode 9, DJ EZ, JME and Skepta. They moved onto a 3 year residency at fabric hosting all the Grime heavyweights like Kano, Wiley, Big Narstie, Novelist and the Newham Generals. Audio and video from these shows have been shared online and collectively have millions of plays from all over the world.

Off the decks, they both work behind the scenes on projects with away from Butterz. Elijah is an independent curator who is a former Artistic Director of Brighton's Lighthouse, and has produced and collaborated on work for York Mediale, Lisson Gallery, Centre Pompidou and more. Skilliam has worked on creative operations for artist's projects, and has delved into production appearing on TQD's UKG album. 

On the decks they play between 130BPM and 160BPM with the Grime being the heartbeat of the set. But as their new 01012020 and onwards mix series shows, they are unafraid of experimentation, shuffling through Bass, Garage, Kudoro, Gqom, and more.

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