bouncy punchy grooves.

booking: daynacanningmusic@gmail.com

FOUNDERS:
@8ULENTINA @LaraSarkissian
2016 - 2021 • clubchai.bandcamp.com 
CLUB CHAI is a record label, event series and curatorial project founded by 8ULENTINA and Lara Sarkissian (fka FOOZOOL) in Oakland, California. CLUB CHAI centers diasporic artists with the intention of carving out sounds and spaces that consider the ways we build narratives as a reflection of our current and future selves. We believe in the transformative abilities of storytelling through sound and honoring its creation of genres and movements for marginalized people throughout the history of electronic music. Through our label releases and projects we hope to contribute to this archive and history.
CLUB CHAI hosted regular events in Oakland and San Francisco while participating in an international network of artists and collaborators. CLUB CHAI held showcases in New York City and London, and have also presented at Unsound Festival Krakow (2019), Mexico City, Milan, and a UK tour in collaboration with TT label. The label hosted shows and streams on NTS radio, Rinse FM, Lower Grand Radio, and Boiler Room.

youtube.com/@antwontv2.0


If ANTWON didn’t exist, no one could have invented him. The former hardcore punk, unabashed hedonist, and Nature Boy leader is what you’d get if Bad Brains spent their summers balling on a budget. ANTWON isn’t a contradiction; he’s a man of complexity. You might catch the San Jose native flexing in BMWs chauffeured by freaks, but he’d prefer to be low-key in a Prius. You might catch him in the club sipping tea and smoking the highest caliber of weed. He isn’t weird isn’t for the sake of being weird. He’s weird for the sake of being raw as fuck.

The former member of power-violence punk outfit, Leather, ANTWON first burst onto the scene in the early years of this decade, blending slightly nostalgic fluorescent raps with gritty industrial dirges, and live shows so rowdy the bruises still haven’t healed. He’s collaborated with Wiki, Heems, and Lil Ugly Mane, Suicideyear and Pictureplane—effortlessly shifting between styles and genres without losing the lecherous wit that made him instantly stand above from the sea of Tumblr struggle rap.

With his lo-fi druggy summer anthems, ANTWON emerged as the missing link between Kid Rock and the Great Rock N’ Roll Swindle, The Misfits and Martin Lawrence. He was ostensibly too raunchy for the punks, too punk for the hip-hop traditionalists, and not chill enough to be chillwave, but he still built a die-hard cult—one of music’s true originals, idiosyncratic, off-beat, blunted, and always with a bad chick hanging off of him.

The Fader said, “ANTWON has a gift for making filthy-fun-times rap songs with people who don’t usually produce rap.” Spin compared him to like a teenaged Biggie in that famous street-corner freestyle resurrected as an ex-hardcore dude.” Pitchfork claimed, “ANTWON’s heavy voice mourns the people whose lives are growing stagnant and not progressing…like Death Grips if they showered up and decided to write the vast majority of their songs about oral sex.”

He’s too smart and self-aware to try to be the voice of his generation, but his raps embody the spirit of the masses that refuse to fit into any classification. He’s the music nerd and the class clown, the punk and the pervert, emotional and aloof, the rap kid sampling Metallica, old funk, and 80s synth-pop.

After a handful of mixtapes and one solo album, he’s signed to Anticon—the ideal fit for a label that never catered to obsolete notions of genre or what a rapper could or couldn’t be. ANTWON couldn’t give a fuck even if he wanted to—an original artist that’s always evolving, swerving recklessly in the lane that he built.

Booking contact: kurthustle1@gmail.com

Kurt Hustle and producer Benjo Beats began creating beautiful music for both your earholes and souls when they were separately and coincidentally relocated to Sacramento from San Francisco. Taken as some sort of drunken serendipity, the two purged their first EP, “Bottle Behavior,” on 12/31/13, and their latest EP, “Red, White & Booze” on July 4, 2014. Benjo Beats' production range is unsettling for fellow producers, whether he makes beats from scratch, or samples, his shit gives your ears' boners. His production ties together a myriad of sounds from authentic hip-hop slappers, to the more recently popular dub-electro, post-rap bangers. Self-proclaimed “honorary king of social commentary,” Kurt Hustle teeters back and forth from impossibly categorical and definition weary to fundamentally acknowledging, spewing a jam-packed arsenal of words to simultaneously scare the shit out of and inspire true hip-hop heads and 16 year old girls alike, all the while forcing them to nod their heads in unison. They've played shows separately and collectively from SF to Sac, South Lake and back with plans for a tour on the horizon. 

DJ Bookings (Worldwide):
James @ Earth Agency:
james@earth-agency.com 
+44 7725 225 052

North American DJ Bookings: 
Scott McCusker @ Cyber Groove Agency	
scott@cybergrooveprod.com
Tel: +1 917 727 9371

Jesse Sharer (I AM JESSE) grew up in NY musically submerged in soulful classic rock from Zeppelin to Hendrix influenced heavily by his father a 60s rock drummer for The Balloon Farm. Like most born in the early 70s , the 1980's were actually the time when the music started to really register in his brain. From New Wave to Rap and Club music alike (which at the time often shared the same bed) Jesse's teenage soundtrack was very colorful. Most recently Jesse just calls it Club. Could be ; Bass music , Baltimore club, House, Moombahton, Electro and 80s or 90s . All you need to know is I AM JESSE rocks the crowd like no other . He stands out at any event he plays period.

select events played: 
a very very MAD DECENT party  
Fuji Rock Festival , Outlook Festival Japan, Laforet Harajuku Tokyo (Top Shop private party) London Calling, Vanity ,Pitchoun, Horse is Not. Domo Arigato, Body Glove (private party) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , Tokyo Indie, Top Shop/Top Man (Shinjuku, Tokyo in-store) , Jim Phillips art show Tokyo , Laforet Harajuku Fashion week (Topshop), Keichi Nitta wedding party , Kaori Kasso B-day party etc...............

select artists played with: 

DJ SLIINK (Brick Bandits) DIRTY SOUTH JOE, (Mad Decent), CRYSTAL CASTLES,  DIE ANTWOORD, MANI (Stone Roses ,Primal Scream) ,KINGDOM (Fools Gold) ,SOUTH RAKKAS CREW (Mad Decent), BRANKO, DJ KENTARO, SKREAM & BENGA, DEX PISTOLS, ZEN LA ROCK , HABANERRO POSSE etc etc....

LATEST MIXES : https://soundcloud.com/i_am_jesse_the_demos

RECENT NET MEDIA : http://www.warpweb.jp/pc/snap/mishkatokyo/ 

I AM JESSE X TOPSHOP (promo video) : http://vimeo.com/27858293

MTV X I AM JESSE   http://www.mtv81.com/videos/japon/i-am-jesse/


I AM JESSE はニューヨークでZeppelinやHendrixなどのソウルフルなクラシック・ロックに没頭し育った。６０年代のロックバンド、The Balloon Farmのドラマーを父に持ち、彼から強く影響を受けた。８０年代Jesseは音楽に特に大きな影響を受けた。かつて一括りされていたが、New WaveやRap、Club MusicなどJesseの10代のサウンドトラックはカラフルなものだった。最近ではJesseはClubと呼び、 Trap, Bass , Baltimore club, Jersey, House,　Moombahton, Electro や 80年代、90年代 ミュージックなどを意味する。とにかく知ってもらいたいのは、I AM JESSEのように観衆を盛り上げるDJはいない！I AM JESSEは誰よりもずば抜けた存在なのだ！！！

出演イベント:
a very very MAD DECENT party (Sydney Australia)  , Fuji Rock Festival , Laforet Harajuku Tokyo (Top Shop private party) London Calling 3rd anniversary , Vanity , Pitchoun, Horse is Not. Domo Arigato, Body Glove (private party) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , Tokyo Indie, Top Shop/Top Man (Shinjuku, Tokyo in-store) , Laforet Harajuku Fashion week (Topshop), Keichi Nitta wedding party , Kaori Kasso B-day party etc...............

共同出演アーティスト:
 DJ SLIINK (Brick Bandits) DIRTY SOUTH JOE, (Mad Decent), CRYSTAL CASTLES,  DIE ANTWOORD, MANI (Stone Roses ,Primal Scream) ,KINGDOM (Fools Gold) ,SOUTH RAKKAS CREW (Mad Decent), BRANKO, DJ KENTARO, SKREAM & BENGA, DEX PISTOLS, ZEN LA ROCK , HABANERRO POSSE etc etc....

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