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Coco's Special Order / Dragon Dub / Getto Latin Groove / Raw Fusion

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sebastian.hallqvist[at]gmail.com

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A passionate vinyl and cassette collector of any kind of music with soul in its foundation. Qwanah has dj’ed at a vast number of underground clubs, night clubs, radio stations and bars around Stockholm, London and New York the past 20 years.

Qwanah grew up in between Stockholm, California and Arizona. All though heavily influenced by the 90’s hip hop & rnb era, he was first schooled musically by his Mother. Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Four Tops, Sly & The Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, WAR, Doobie Brothers, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Prince among others was played regularly at home.

In his preteen years he discovered hip hop via his older brother and says it changed his life. In high school he would dub cassette tapes and make his own mixtapes and give them out to friends. That's when Qwanah really started to experiment mixing songs together and make concept tapes that eventually lead him to buying a pair of turntables and a dj mixer. The rest is history.

In his early 20's Qwanah moved to London to pursue his dream as a dj/producer. He studied music production at SAE and on the weekends he would dj and occasionally sell sneakers to finance his living.

In 2012 Qwanah moved to New York and says he re-discovered hip hop all over again - "Meeting Kool Herc was like meeting my second father". New York City had a tremendous impact on Qwanah musically. He says the city breathes hip hop, salsa and jazz. It's during this time Qwanah started to dig deeper into the latin grooves, dub, reggae and roots sections.

Qwanah claims to be an eclectic record selector rather than a technical dj pushing buttons. His sets are widely known to incorporate dance music of all sorts whether it be deep house, broken beat, breakbeat hardcore, UKG, 90 dnb, tekno, hip hop, cumbia, salsa, dub or reggae – it will make you feel good. He runs a club called 'Coco’s Special Order' (also a record label) a genre free club playing dance music. Qwanah has also partly been running the club ’Raw Fusion’ together with Mad Mats and Tooli.

Electronic record label focussed on live acts. Est. 2014 in NYC. Sister label of Captured Tracks and Sinderlyn.

The Alchemists / Ichirougan Records
Union Records / Sure Player
Ovni/ Kinich Music

From an early age, Joe was musically inclined. As a youth growing up in Bari, Italy, Joe taught himself to play the piano and guitar by ear.
His first club appearance was in 1994, where he played a house music set at Eclipse (Bari – Italy). The then under-aged Joe managed to impress a crowd of seasoned clubbers undetected! From then on, Joe effortlessly began to move dance floors around his hometown. 
At the age of 19, the budding Deejay moved to the hustle and bustle of London, where the fertile clubbing scene served to broaden Joe’s musical perspective and would greatly influence his future set constructions.
He returned to Italy in 1998, brimming with enthusiasm. Within a short time, he was booked to play at some of Southern Italy’s most popular dance clubs, placing gigs at Jimmi’z, Demodé, Last Exit, Jubilee and more, securely under his belt. A couple of years later, Joe held a residency at the hugely popular "Clorophilla" in Southern Italy.  There he would share the decks with leading Italian and international house and techno music Deejays - Claudio Coccoluto, Paolo Martini, Alex Neri, Little Louie Vega and Deep Dish - all to swiftly sold out crowds.
After moving to Barbados, Joe’s career stepped up internationally : he performed for the first time during WMC in Miami at small industry parties, in St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.  In April 2018, during the first edition of Vujaday Music Festival in Barbados, Joe opened the Ministry of Sound Stage, sharing the decks with headliners like Cassy, Mark Knight, Dave Seaman, Danny Howells & Darren Emerson.
A seasoned traveller, Joe’s set constructions are diverse and are built on beats drawn from his travels. They span the broad spectrum of genres from tribal rhythm to soulful house tracks. He can take you on a journey across the four corners of the world of house music in one set.
Joe continues to grow his following and regularly performs at the island’s most popular dance music venues such as Sea Shed, La Cabane , Baia and more. He plays to packed-capacity crowds at “The Alchemists” bespoke Ibiza-styled parties, a venture which he collaborated and conceptualized. 
Island life has afforded Joe the opportunity to branch out into the personally untapped area of music production and he has produced tracks for several labels - Union Records, Sure Player Recordings, Kinich Music, OVNI Music.
As a natural evolution process, Joe has launched his own label (Ichirougan Records) to help and promote Djs and producers from the Caribbean Region.

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