Recently, DJ Pete Phunk has been spotted spinning with RedLine, FreakEasy, C2E2, Exxxotica Convention,  The Tonk, Teknoir@Best Bar, No.9 @ Prysm, Half Baked Dispensary, Antique Taco, BASE Café, Zhou B Art Center, and many other local artist venues. He has a huge arsenal of digital and vinyl songs and genres including house, techno, EDM, anime remixes, industrial, synthwave, acid jazz, disco/funk, reggae, hip hop and many sub genres as well, setting an appropriate vibe and listening experience for a variety of crowds. It’s been a long and humbling road.
    It was 1984 on Chicago’s south side where DJ Pete Phunk began his music ventures. At age 14, he was spinning vinyl at high school dances and basement parties, like most DJ’s in the beginning, playing different styles of house (which had just begun in Chicago), techno, freestyle, hi-energy and hip house. A few years later, he spun a couple of local bar gigs until he attend college in ’90. Pete enrolled at Columbia College, majoring in broadcasting and communications and joined with the radio staff at 88.1 WCRX (a house\techno\freestyle format) where he made mixes for “The Mix At 6”, also as an on air DJ, and eventually ascended to a specialty show, sharing a 3 hour slot with Sunny B on the show ‘The Reggae Pulse’. The show was a huge success, playing a variety of island & reggae beats, and discussing informative community events and services. Pete & Sunny B had rare interviews with artists such as Shaggy,
Wailing Souls ( C.O.P.S. theme song ) and Shaka Demas & Pliers. This duo brought their show and the station to new levels and acquired 2 music awards at The International Reggae Music Awards held in Chicago’s Natural History Museum. Sunny B and Pete Phunk also hosted the show.
      In ’93, Pete became a resident DJ at ‘The Drink’ in Chicago (a huge multi-room club and music venue) spinning house, techno, industrial, disco/funk and reggae with his high school classmate, Mark Grant. The Drink also had concert events with Pete Phunk as the opening act for timeless bands like Ziggy Marley, Gin Blossoms with Billy Corgan, , War, Parliament & the P-Funk Allstars, and Peter Frampton. The Drink expanded to Las Vegas where Pete relocated as their resident DJ. The Drink in Las Vegas became an instant celebrity hang out and Pete Phunk was fortunate enough to spin private VIP parties for Sandra Bullock, Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman, Peter Boyle and many others. With a passion for music and an expanding  his ‘west coast house meets Chicago house’ sound, Pete ventured into spinning at raves and underground events in Vegas. In ’96, he was the very first DJ to spin at the now infamous Club Utopia and had many other spots there with resident Robert Oleysyek and Mike Funkler. It was at Utopia that DJ Pete Phunk opened for DJ Keoki as well. Local DJ’s such as Duanne King , Shoe, Speedy, Mike Funkler, Robert Oleysyek and Pete Phunk started a still growing Las Vegas underground and club scene. Pete Phunk was also spotted with his then long braided hair and wearing a gas mask, in a cut scene on HBO’s ‘Taxi Cab Confessions in Las Vegas’. Returning to Chicago in the late 90’s, Pete had many recurring guest spots at Crobar, Shelter, Lizard Lounge, Red Dog, and the new Drink (currently Carnivale). He took a long break from DJing to become a father and raise his kids.
       Returning to his passion for playing music in 2015, Pete Phunk has dug up his roots and spins at clubs, café’s, outdoor events and raves throughout Chicago and also returned to producing his own music. Now a veteran DJ, Pete continues to experiment with music styles, new and old. For a truly moving experience, do not miss this DJ.

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DJ Three has been tirelessly holding the flag for underground electronic music in the US since his rise out of the sunny state of Florida in the early 90’s. In that time, he’s emerged as one of the brightest DJ talents from the US and continues to be a true inspiration around the globe.  Three's tour dates show both diversity in audience and a genre-bending passion for good music.  He’s held residencies at New York City's Twilo, Cielo (Robots), Love, Blk Market Membership and Output in Brooklyn, as well as Florida’s legendary Simons in the 90’s, Snatch in Tampa in the 00’s and The Electric Pickle in Miami all while playing lauded guest spots at San Francisco’s Wicked, Sublevel in Los Angeles, fabric London, Panorama Bar, DC10, Club Eleven in Tokyo and forward thinking festivals like Labyrinth Festival (Japan), Sunset Campout (USA), Day Zero (Mexico), Rainbow Serpent Festival (Australia) and Houghton Festival (UK).

T. Mixwell offers her dance floors unconventional concoctions of Afro, House, Techno, and Minimal; all stirred into one big melting pot of edgy banging fun.

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Andrew Emil // Change Request 

A preeminent artist of Chicago's 3rd wave, Andrew Emil is one of house music’s most staunch stalwarts. A concert-trained percussionist since age 11, he earned a chair in his native Kansas City Symphony before eventually moving to Chicago. 

As a traditional musician, Andrew Emil has worked as a keyboardist, arranger, and an orchestrator on recording sessions and productions, cutting his teeth at the former Chicago Trax Recording Studios. 

Credited on over 200+ recordings, his composition and studio productions have ranged from concert works and sound design to film scoring stages and hundreds of releases of electronic music productions. 

After a life in live music performance, from orchestra percussion sections to punk rock ensembles, he crafted a reputation for House Music productions in Chicago under his own name, as well as Broadway & Wilson, and Uptown Tones. 

One of the earlier innovators of the “Jackin House” genre under the Broadway & Wilson moniker with Jeff Bloom, Andrew is never content to stay in one place or style of musical thought for very long. 

He is the only recording artist to do production work simultaneously for Derrick Carter’s Classic Music Company, Mark Farina’s Great Lakes Audio, Gene Farris’ Farris Wheel Recordings, and four-time GRAMMY nominee Steve “Silk” Hurley’s S&S Records.

A string of double-digit singles for prominent labels, including remixes for artists such as Common, Kanye West, Little Louie Vega, Jamie Principle, Steve "Silk" Hurley, Iz & Diz, Fast Eddie, Shalamar, Roland Clark, David Morales, Colette, Amp Fiddler, JT Donaldson, and Gene Farris, to name a few. 

2012 saw the emergence of his epithet, Change Request, with the Change Theory EP on four play music. This new persona allowed the freedom to explore hybrids of mid-tempo live instrument focused jazz-dance-fusion. 

Following this release was “After All” on Seasons Recordings, with another single thereafter featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”, including a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground, on Glenview Records. 

The ever-growing collection of songs and musical dialogue eventually led to the conceptual album series from Change Request. Each full-length effort containing a completely separate story and scored via its own unique incidental subtext. 

Emil created AstraVox Music with the award-winning Los Angeles-based composer, Mr. Nathaniel, as a home for his increasing catalog of incidental dramatic musical compositions. 

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“There are at least a few people in this thing determined to keep House Music weird. Chicago’s Alinka is one of them.” – Terry Matthew, 5Magazine

Alinka is the kind of DJ other DJ’s will tell you about. She has a unique power on the decks that comes from lifelong passion and time served, with a focused devotion to her first love – house music. Raised on Chicago’s vibrant house sound with toes dipped into Detroit techno, Europe’s more robust approaches to bass music and the myriad of genre’s coming from cities like Berlin, London and Paris.

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, her early childhood included reluctantly learning the piano, her mother is a pianist, while trying to convince her parents to let her play guitar. Her exposure to Western music was limited, living in a communist country where censorship was common practice. Her family eventually immigrated to Chicago as Jewish refugees in the late ‘80s as the USSR crumbled. This was her first experience of pop music and she fell head over heels for the chart sounds of Madonna and Janet Jackson. Then came house music from local radio shows where you could frequently hear tracks by Chicago legends like Cajmere and DJ Funk, and shows like Sonic Boom helped expose underground music to the masses.

By the late ‘90s, music had taken over her life. Teenage Alinka immersed herself in the dance music scene spending her summer pulling double shifts at a local pool and moonlighting for rave promoters to build up enough cash to buy decks. After a year of skipping class to relentlessly practice her mixing skills, she began her full-time musical pursuit. Working for various club promoters, doing odd jobs passing out flyers and helping with party logistics - anything just to get into clubs underage to see her favourite DJs - all while spending hours digging for tracks at Chicago’s legendary record shop Gramaphone. In 2001 Justin Long recruited her to be the opening resident for his .Dotbleep party at Smartbar where she honed her skills for the best part of a decade.

In 2012, an impromptu meeting with former Hercules and Love Affair vocalist, Shaun J. Wright, changed her life forever. Their evolving friendship resulted in what would be the first of many musical collaborations. The pair launched their Twirl parties and label, continually strived to inspire each other both musically and spiritually, the result has been an impressive catalogue of material for both of them collaboratively and individually on the likes of The Classic Music Company, Jackathon Jams, Crosstown Rebels, Leftroom, and of course Twirl, where as well as their own material the duo have welcomed renowned artists like Spencer Parker, Virginia, LA-4A, Kim Ann Foxman, and Jason Kendig onto the label.

Recent years have seen Alinka really hit her stride as a producer with successful releases on world renown labels like Rekids, Crosstown Rebels, Need Want, Permanent Vacation, and Peggy Gou’s Gudu Records. She also turned out a standout collection of remixes for labels Me Me Me, Live At Robert Johnson, Correspondant, and Get Physical.

Now living in Berlin, Alinka has well and truly found her feet and inspiration. Alinka has used this base to throw down at parties across Europe from Berghain/Panorama Bar to Circoloco, with regular visits back to the US to play standout clubs like Smart Bar and Ukraine's famous ∄ club in Kyiv, where she stands as club’s first international resident, playing a minimum of six shows per year including a curated show.

Her evolution continues with the recent re-launch of her Twirl imprint, highlighted by the ‘Day Dreamer’, ‘Sorry For Not Trending’ and ‘Edgewater’ EPs that finely balance Alinka’s future-focused ethos, with a unmistakable, proud passion for her Chicago heritage.

IL>CO>CA>IL. House, techno etc. since 2000. 

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