DJ & Producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fast, Groovy, Housy Techno

VGA (AR) es un artista de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thks for listening :)

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Godfather has had a very successful career over the years. Voted 15th best DJ in America by the readers of DJ Times and Pioneer Pro DJ for 2011 and in 2012 out of the top 100, best DJ in Detroit by Real Detroit magazine 5 years in a row (2008-2013), and is now the Red Bull Thre3stlye champion of Detroit for 2013! With sponsorships from Serato and Native Instruments, Godfather currently released an expansion pack entitled Dirty Knock for the iMaschine and Maschine, the industry standard drum machine by Native Instruments with endorsements from Diplo, Lil Jon, Steve Aoki, Disco Fries, Danny Daze, DJ Fuck and more. He plays it all from open format/mashup parties to  house to the deepest trap, ghetto tech and juke parties incorporating his battle style turntablism in his sets. He has played across the globe numerous times in cities all over Europe, Asia, Australia, United States, Canada, China, Japan and South America and receives worldwide recognition.

Lets take a look at it from the beginning!:

DJ Godfather is considered one of the founding fathers of the genre we now know as Ghetto Tech. He started DJing at the age of 15 with the help of, now business partner, DJ Dick. Within a few months of getting his turntables, Godfather was already playing in nightclubs and after hour parties all over Detroit. He started producing at the age of 17 for his first Miami Bass style group Bass Association. With the buzz of a few singles off the Bass Association album on 3 Detroit radio stations, Godfather made his first solo record at the age of 18 on the now Twilight 76 Records entitled "Work Dat". Taking his turntablism skills and mixing Detroit Techno music with Miami Bass music, and new sound was born, Ghetto Tech. With the formation of their new record label Twilight 76 with partners DJ Dick and Brian Gillespie, he took his talent and turned it into an entire business creating 3 other labels known as Databass Records, D.E.T. Only (An exclusive label with only 1000 copies of each release), and Juke Trax (A label dedicated to the Chicago style of Ghetto House and Juke music). With all 4 record labels combined, Godfather and his partners released over 250 vinyl releases and mix CD releases, selling over 800,000 units worldwide. You can hear DJ Godfather tracks on the 2 videos games, NBA 2K6 and NBA 2K7 on 2K Sports. He was also the first DJ to be released on the Serato digital download series, using Scratch Live technology and tracks only available digitally for a mix cd entitled "For The Freaks". With 12" vinyl record sales slowing down over the past years, Godfather and his partners stopped pressing vinyl and embraced the digital download world with their own digital distribution company and 2 online MP3 stores, Secretremixes.com for Mashups and DJ Remixes along with Electrobounce.com for Trap, Ghetto Tech, Electro, Techno and Juke music. They also started Soundbully, A digital distribution company that offers digital distribution to over 187 MP3 stores and ring tone carriers worldwide.

Godfather is also producing under 2 other names. Don Dada which is a duo group with DJ Zebo out of Chicago incorporating trap music with juke, ghetto tech and electro house with 4 turntables in their live sets. Reviews have been fantastic as they already played Movement in Detroit and Spring Awakening in Chicago along with some other big music festivals. The other allis is Detroit Muscle which is strictly house music. Having remixed artists such as Lil Jon, Diplo, Aston Shuffle (Ministry Of Sound), Bad Boy Bill and more!

Recent projects Godfather has been involved in are remixes for Laidback Luke' "Pogo", Dizzee Rascal's "Bassline Junkie" and Baauer's "Harlem Shake which have all made the #1 monthly downloaded track on Serato's Whitelable.net and the 40 Oz Profits, making it in the top 100 on Beatport. Don Dada is also ready to release their Debut single "Rock Ya Whole Block" along with 2 follow up tracks. 


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Platinum-selling recording artist, label boss, festival promoter, true innovator in the pantheon of popular music, cultural champion, cracking DJ: there’s a lot to be said about Kevin Saunderson.

His influence runs deep, through both adopted hometown of Detroit, and music culture as a whole: as one of the Belleville Three, the high school trio which also includes Juan Atkins and Derrick May, he irreparably changed the face of electronic music; with Inner City, he gave it some of its most memorable tunes. 

The genesis of today’s enormous techno scene can be retraced straight to Kevin, Derrick and Juan, as their formative experiments on rudimentary hardware sketched a blueprint for a genre that was yet to exist. By absorbing Kraftwerk, cutting-edge funk, local radio stalwart The Electrifying Mojo’s electicism, and all manner of new synthesiser and drum machine-led pop music, the Belleville Three broke new ground as musicians and DJs in the 80s. 

Saunderson’s comparatively late start as a producer – kicking off in ’87 under the moniker of Kreem, with E-Dancer and Reese two of the more well-known names to follow – inadvertently gifted him a headstart. With the eruption of house music a few hours down the I-94 in Chicago, Saunderson married Detroit’s raw sound to more tactile, pop-leaning sensibilities. Inner City was born, and global success followed.

Between “Big Fun”, “Good Life”, debut album Paradise and a number of follow-up singles, Inner City (Saunderson and vocalist Paris Grey) amassed 12 UK top 40 hits and over six million records sold worldwide during their peak. A dancefloor-dominating remix by Luciano in 2008, and a globetrotting reunion tour in 2012, underscores the longevity of Inner City’s classic sound. 

His nickname of ‘The Elevator’ is apt: for his role in transporting Detroit’s new sound to a wider audience; as anyone who has seen him perform live can attest, his high-energy, high-spirit and high-impact DJ sets; and for spending the past 35 years of his life progressing the culture he helped create. 

Operating in tandem to his golden run as a producer in the late 80s and early 90s, Saunderson’s own KMS record label – a remarkable 30 years strong in 2017 – has chronicled the early footsteps of R-Tyme, Blake Baxter, MK, Chez Damier, Derrick Carter, Bicep and even Saunderson’s son and regular DJ partner Dantiez more recently. 

A special 12” series in 2008 called History Elevate, released in tandem with fellow polymath Carl Craig’s Planet E label, brought contemporary names like Mathew Jonson, Simian Mobile Disco and Loco Dice into the fold, proving his nous for fostering relationships with each new wave to come through techno’s gates. 25th anniversary compilations and numerous reissues have followed suit. 

Saunderson has a behind-the-scenes role to play, too: he is intertwined with the history of Detroit’s flagship Movement (formerly Detroit Electronic Music Festival / Fuse-In). Having produced the event in the mid-2000s, the last handful of years have seen repeated invites from Movement to display his ORIGINS showcase at the festival, bringing acts like Delano Smith, Phuture and DJ Minx under his curatorial umbrella. 

And of course, with a stacked international touring schedule over the decades, playing in nearly every country and at nearly every festival or club worth mention, he has not stopped pushing the feeling of techno on and on. 

The Groove That Won’t Stop, indeed.

/// 𝑬𝑵𝑬𝑹𝑮𝑬𝑻𝑰𝑪 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑺𝑺 𝑺𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫𝑺. 𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑻 & 𝑮𝑹𝑶𝑶𝑽𝑬 ///

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[EN] "It is alllllllll about the dance..."

Whether on a clubby night, a smooth sunset evening or a spicy afterhours, this music collector has a myriad of tunes to fit each presentation. What defines her is the mixture, with a deep love for the underground and the story of electronic music.

Expect acid, electro, breaks and discoish dashes infused on her house and techno sounds. The result is a session both futuristic and classic, where the energy on the dancefloor never stops.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she's played at the city's most renowned venues like Avant Garten or Under Club. In 2022 she toured for the first time in Europe and performed at Kit Kat Club, Klunkerkranich, Bordello Aperitivo and Operator Radio, to name a few. During 2024 she returned to EU and performed for the first time in Madrid and Bruxelles.

From 2019 to 2023 she was editor-in-chief of the electronic outlet Danzfloor, which focused on the Argentinian dance scene, with special emphasis on upcoming talent.

ATM she’s devoting herself to master the art of djing with vinyl.

[ES] "Será la locura, que nos hace BAILAR"

Oriunda de Buenos Aires, traductora, periodista y melómana, Rocío Cusmano aka HIHATDANCER lleva como bandera el amor por el underground y la historia de la música electrónica.

Ya sea en formato club, sunset o afterhours, lo más importante para HIHATDANCER es EL BAILE. Con una visión sonora que va del House al Electro, pasando por variantes del Disco, Breaks y Acid, ofrece un mix futurista y clásico a la vez, donde la energía no para.

De 2019 a 2023 fue Editora en Jefe de Danzfoor, un medio digital sobre la escena dance local, con énfasis en lxs artistas emergentes.

Durante 2022 y 2024 viajó a Europa, donde se presentó en 6 países, dentro de los que se destacan venues como Kit Kat Club, Klunkerkranich, Bordello Aperitivo y Operator Radio.

Actualmente está dedicándose a dominar el arte del djing con vinilos.

* Part of the @femalepressure network *

/// 𝑵𝑬𝑿𝑻 𝑮𝑰𝑮𝑺 ///
-[29.05.25] Tropischen Garten @ Avant Garten
-[24.05.25] PILF 🎠🤍

/// 𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝑮𝑰𝑮𝑺 ///
-[03.05.25] LA GRAN PAPI (Vinyl B2B set w/ Ac3lito)
-[26.04.25] FIESTOMBA 
-[23.02.25] Under Club
-[31.12.24] NYE 
-[21.12.24] Under Club 
-[21.12.24] Take A Break [sunset special breaks set]
- [26.09.24] Tropischen Garten @ Avant Garten
- [17.08.24] Febo Asoma
- [03.08.24] Private Event
- [14.06.24] Gilda Haus, Madrid 🇪🇸
- [13.06.24] Radio Phantom, Madrid 🇪🇸
- [10.06.24] Electric Monday, Kit Kat Club, Berlin🇩🇪
- [04.06.24] Operator Radio, Rotterdam, 🇳🇱
- [31.05.24] Palla D'Uovo, Groningen, 🇳🇱
- [24.05.24] Radio Vacarme, BRU 
- [23.05.24] Sala Recreo, BCN 🇪🇸
- [19.05.24] LIQUIDME [special breaks/uk garage set] 
- [11.04.24] Tropischen Garten @ Avant Garten
- [30.03.24] Ciclo Nox
- [10.03.24] LIQUIDME [special breaks/uk garage set] 
- [20.01.24] Ciclo Nox
- [29.12.23] Under Club
- [09.12.23] Aniversario @elektrash909
- [30.11.23] Tropischen Garten @ Avant Garten
- [17.11.23] Project Wormhole
- [04.11.23] Dune Park
- [23.09.23] La Noche de los Museos, Museo Sívori
- [16.06.23] Dialog @ Artlab 
- [01.06.23] Tropischen Garten @ Avant Garten
- [13.05.23] PISTERA 1st anniversary w/ She Teiks & Uma Scheffer (Córdoba Capital)
- [15.04.23] MISSA w/ Camila Isabel, Rosa Rous & Drolaen
- [26.03.23] Under Club w/ @djhellofficial, Victoria Arena & Mariano Blanco
- [20.02.23] Under Club Aniversario w/ @mariano-dc, @samsara_ucker & Mariano Blanco
- [05.02.23] Flora @ Ache
- [31.12.22] NYE @ Guaterave
- [22.12.22] Tropischen Garten @ Avant Garten
- [27.11.22] Selina (Córdoba Capital)
- [26.11.22] Planetario Experiencia w/ @maia-dros y @francorossimusic (Córdoba Capital)
- [12.11.22] FÜNF CLUB w/ @poulper, @hyperdamdj & @cudacuruxa 
- [11.11.22] Future Contrast w/ @radonmusica & más
- [22.10.22] Transmutation [Dance Performance]
- [21.10.22] Espacio Ro
- [01.10.22] Niceto Bar
- [29.09.22] Tropischen Garten @ Avant Garten
- [11.08.22] La Feria de la Música (La Rural)
- [17.08.22] Klunkerkranich (🇩🇪)
- [15.08.22] Electric Monday @ Kit Kat Club (🇩🇪)
- [07.08.22] Bordello Aperitivo (🇳🇱 )
- [04.08.22] La Reiv BCN (🇪🇸 )
- [03.08.22] Recreo BCN (🇪🇸 )

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Dj y Productor de Capital Federal, Argentina.

Productor y dj residente de La Gran Papi

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