Dirty trashcan beats. Growing up in NYC in the Golden Era of Hip Hop, he is informed by the East Coast 90’s sound with touches of G-Funk and West Coast flavor, as he now resides in Oakland, CA. Currently working on a concept album with DJ Ammbush (Oakland Faders/Drums and Anmo) entitled “Drums and Ammo,” “Philthy,” as many know him, fuses obscure samples lifted from dusty vinyl dug from across the globe with retrofuturistic synths and garbage-can snares and rhinoceros charlie horse kick drums, laced with hi-hats drenched in kisses of the Gods of Rome. He has a steady output of beats and artistic works, including live beat performances. Dr. Gann has been working with TFS in Bay Area schools and community settings, and across the globe using Hip Hop beat making and culture as a mental health, educational, social justice and cross-cultural intervention. He has worked with more than 75,000 youth on six continents in the past six years through TFS and is currently developing the Therapeutic Beat Making (TBM) Model.

http://soundcloud.com/groups/detroit-production/dropbox

Jo Rad Silver
Records by Akka & BeepBeep 
Technically, Yeah. 

contact: joradsilver at gmail

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In the winter of 2016, Taylor Cranmer (ghostyy, formerly The Lunar Calendar) and Jan Kruszewski (Le Voyage, Yunior, formerly Sugar Baron) joined forces to create High School Sweetheart. The project was conceived when the two started bouncing ideas off of each other for their respective solo projects, but soon after, realized that their collaborations had a fun and imaginative sound worth exploring. 

On May 2nd, 2017, the duo released their first self-titled EP. Considering together in 8th grade they formed their first band ever, High School Sweetheart feels like a project that has been a long time coming.

HighSchoolSweetheartDetroit@gmail.com for booking/contact.

Incorporating a fluid mix of lush orchestration and rigid scratches and rhythms, turntablist and sample-based composer p.stoops blends decades of recorded music together into a strange yet consonant world. Beyond the record scratches, drum machines, and field recordings, p.stoops works within a strict focus of harmony and form.

With a background in classical piano and both folk and concert composition, he utilizes this upbringing to its fullest with obsessive precision and perfectionism. Pulling inspiration (and direct samples) from a library of musical influences and styles, his music reads less as a simple mash-up and more as an alternate version of music history.

The beginning of his sample-based compositions started with his 2014 EP, object permanence.  Part early hip-hop mixtape, part exotica record, he diverged from rhythmic and melodic expectations throughout the album.  

The sampling process of object permanence awoke his inner ethnomusicologist and led to his next project, Ancient Computers.  Taking the next two years to complete his first full-length album, p.stoops poured in countless more samples, musical form changes, and production techniques to build an ethnomusicological study for an imaginary post-civilization world.

Throughout the recording of Ancient Computers, p.stoops expanded the scope of his live performances.  Experimenting with turntablism and live electronics for meditative drawing events and creating an engaging turntablism set, performing tracks off of the two albums.  His sets blends electronic composition with humor, beats, and scratching.  He has shared the stage with acts like RJD2, Badbadnotgood, Blockhead, Open Mike Eagle, Serengeti, Astronautalis, Yoni Wolf, !!!, STRFKR, and JR JR.

Ancient Computers was released May 5th, 2017 on Teenage Riot Records.

BOOKINGS

North&South America/Oz: mahmood@concertedefforts.com
ROW: Josh@xraytouring.com / Hannah@xraytouring.com

PRESS 
pip@relapse.com

Rising from Detroit’s legendary hip-hop scene is the emcee Valid. Under the wing of the city pioneer and Grammy Award Winning DJ Head, Valid continues to blaze stage after stage while dropping fresh music and gaining notoriety in and out of the states.
Since dropping his rookie mixtape, a series of EP's, and his critically acclaimed album "Mihajlo", Valid has received spins for multiple tracks on SiriusXM Radio, college radio, terrestrial radio, and toured throughout the states.
Stay tuned with latest on Valid here at Valid313.com and follow him on all social media @valid313.

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