An emblematic artist of the Palestinian underground scene, SAMA’ is one of the first DJs and electronic music producers to emerge from the region. Her sound, an original punchy kind of techno, is dry and musical all at once and has quickly made its way across Europe and beyond.
 
SAMA, meaning ‘sky’ in Arabic, started mixing in 2006 in parties around Ramallah, Palestine. Several years later she started producing her own music and expanding her interest in synthesis in 2010, with a focus on techno, house, and other deeper sub-genres of electronic music.
 
The artist graduated from the United Kingdom with a BSc in Audio Engineering and Music Production, then moved to Cairo where she worked as a sound designer for film, became a music producer and then instructor. SAMA’ now runs her own Audio Engineering & Sound Design company working across films and documentaries in the Middle East. In 2017, she was selected as a Laureate by the French Institute, and during that time attended a residency at the International City of Arts in Paris. SAMA’ also runs a publishing company called Awyav, representing independent artists from the Arab world.
 
In late 2018, SAMA’s Boiler Room performance and the associated documentary about the scene in Palestine went viral and more and more people are seeing that music has no boundaries. SAMA’ was recently listed in SheSaid.So’s Alternative Power 100 List, and plays a high-profile set at Ibiza’s World Heritage Site of Dalt Vila for the International Music Summit in late May. She is currently working on a studio album.

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T-Bird's career began in 1990s Los Angeles. After a few residencies, with friends he began his own night, Jazzid Up! T-Bird has played numerous LA hot spots in addtion to special events such as LACMA's 40th Anniversary and Abbot Kinney Boulevard's Annual Street Festival. He maintained a 6 year residency with Something Else! at The Brig in Venice Beach and has appeared in other major US cities, including: New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC and San Diego.

In 2005 he expanded internationally, starting with Barcelona and Sitges before adding Swiss crowds in Biel-Bienne, Basel and Zurich. Within a month of relocating to Spain in 2007, T-Bird added to his list of venues the ORIGINAL Pacha Sitges and a summer residency at Pacha's newest club --Sweet Pacha. Later T-Bird began making inroads to the UK with gigs in London, Brighton and Cambridge. Additional foreign dates have included Copenhagen's Distortion Festival in Denmark, Berlin & Cologne in Germany, Austria's Vienna and even Norway! 

T-Bird was commissioned by Straub & Linardatos, a German advertising agency to work on Revisited 3: An Aural Trip To California, a mix CD to be given out to their clients as a 2008 Christmas gift. By  request, the lion's share of music used was composed by him as well. A few years later, 2011 brought music releases as Los Chicos Altos (a partnership with German DJ/Producer Maxey Blaze) on two different labels: Latin Flavored Fire, a compilation on Danny Massure's label Spring Strut from the USA and Oliveto/Samborigeno EP by Farrapo & Yanez on Mikael Palner's UrbanWorld Records out of Denmark. Los Chicos Altos has gone on to release 3 of their own EPs on UrbanWorld, "Pa'lante," "Se Va Mamba" and 2013's "El Diablo Alegre." Additionally LCA has been part of several compilations (e.g., The Wonderwheel Spins 2012 and Turntables on Las Ramblas on Nickodemus' label Wonderwheel) and numerous remixes for artists such as Novalima, Ojos De Brujo, Smokey Bandits, Quincy Jointz and others.

The sky is the limit for how high T-Bird can go…

Yara Muhrez aka "Yara. M" is one of the few female DJs who made a difference in the Electronic Music scene in Damascus city. 
Her Passion to Music led her to organize events back in 2009-2010 to introduce people in town to Electronic Music. 
That woken up the Musician inside her so she started playing Music at private parties in 2010, and she did so for years, at the same time she was finishing her Law Degree at Damascus University, and that wasn’t easy for people to understand at that time, but that didn’t stop her from doing both plus so many other things… and it turned out to be just Great!
Her first public events were in Lebanon in 2013, While she lived there for a year.
When she moved back to Damascus she started to work harder on her Music, and did many events in several venues.
She’s well known for her extended sets that flows up from Electronica- Deep House- Tech House to Progressive House & Techno. With an oriental twist, spiritual & soulful melodies…
Her dream is to spread the Music in her country and all over the world because she believes that Music is the key for a world free from violence and Hate, full of Peace & Love!

Colour and Pitch Records Brighton, Soiree International Records Detroit, Ante Records Chicago, 3Bridge Records Brooklyn, Xenology Records Scotland, Voyuer Music Madrid, We Are Minder Scotland, Wildtrackin Records Germany.
Long at the forefront of the underground scene Mark has been djing for around 40 years. 

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