Trying to get these sounds and feelings out of my head.
Queer artist
ATL GA

for inquiries, contact vltavacollective@gmail.com

Multifaceted EMCEE So-Far-I was born in Santa Cruz, California, in 1989, and raised in Eugene, Oregon.  He came up rocking college parties as the youngest memeber of the live Hip Hop band 4 Trees.  Mixing socially conscious lyrics with a unique cadence, he made a name for himself in the Eugene, OR music scene at 16.

Affiliated with hip-hop crew Classic Brix, So-Far-I released his first solo project, 1 Gift 1 Life 1 Love & 2 Fists, at 17, under the name Lil Army.  Returning to So-Far-I in 2010, he released the EP Conflicts in Nature and an ambitious 22-track mixtape.  The mixtape, entitled Evolution in Progress, showcased So-Far-I’s roots in Hip Hop culture, with remixes to producers RZA, The Coup, Hi Tek, Dead Prez.  The year after, So-Far-I began to generate buzz with Weapons of Mass Progression, a group comprised of two MC’s, and a singer.  After releasing the EP The Journey in 2012, So-Far-I hit the road, performing in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Minneapolis, following his love for music and travel.

In 2013, his track Walls Fall Up was featured on mixtape Digital Dynasty 25, alongside Raekwon, Method Man, J Cole and Pusha T. The following year So-Far-I was featured in a collaboration with Aruba group Central Pieces on international mixtape The Revolution of Hip Hop. In 2014 his track Win The Crown became the theme song for the nationwide competitive wrestling tournament Grapplers Quest. Meanwhile, as an artist in residence at label United Roots in Oakland, CA, his collaboration with several bay artists was featured in the 2017 documentary ‘My People Are Rising’.

In 2018, So-Far-I put outa personal album under the name of Armen J called For What It’s Worth showing his growth on full display.  Flexing his evolution as an original artist, while staying true to his roots, his latest album For What It’s Worth, offers a luscious blend of Jazz, Hip Hop and lyrical pleasure.

Christine Nguyen is a first-generation Vietnamese-American artist based in Portland, OR. Drawing from her own life and writing in the perspective of others, she writes songs that explore themes like spirituality, love, nostalgia, and self-discovery. Her sound is a unique mix of contemporary pop, lo-fi R&B, and rap—offering something that feels both fresh and deeply personal.
 
Christine’s music has been published in major outlets such as Vision Quest Sound, Folded Waffle, Vocalo, and Urban Radar Music. On TikTok, her songs have been featured in over 18,000 videos, including TikTok posts by big brands and celebrities like Pepsi, PUMA Indonesia, Danny Trejo, Tory Burch and Anthropologie.

acrillics@gmail.com

In September 2016, Rob Atkins (Wellington, New Zealand) and Andro Mathewson (Edinburgh, Scotland) met at the University of Otago in New Zealand and founded Acrillics with the goal of producing electronic music that combines multiple genres and their cross-cultural backgrounds to create a unique sound without the constraints of one musical category. Since their origin, Acrillics has gone on to release tracks on Mat Zo's label Mad Zoo Music, prominent trap music blog FUXWITHIT, Noiseporn, Electric Hawk, Tribal Trap, Street Ritual and many others, as well as headline shows and perform at venues across the world, open for artists such as Mat Zo, GTA, Josh Pan, Louie Lastic, Dack Janiels, AFK, Svdden Death & Shaun Frank and be supported by Alison Wonderland, Dillon Francis, Boombox Cartel, Ookay, Luca Lush, SteLouse, T1R and SpaceYacht.

Releases/Featured/Played:

@Anjunadeep
@MadZooMusic 
@TribalTrapMusic
@Street_Ritual
@rtrap
@innersus
@Noiseprn
@electric_hawk
@fuxwithit-1
@midnightbassrecs
@spaceyacht
@basswafflesla
@burnarecords
@sub-terranean
@iwicollective
@thepacificempire
@myopicsounds
@pushcollective
@nahzone
@trapnchill
@bassmentnz
@futuremagmusic

hidden gems: @sembariplus

Contact
sembarimusic[at]gmail.com

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"Sembari could be Australia's next big thing"
Joe // Editor at Stoney Roads

Formed in 2017 by Australian producer Dylan Maddison, Sembari is an electronic music project inspired by the sounds of Flume, ODESZA & Louis The Child. His collaboration with Afterglo saw 'Escape' being featured on Chill Nation & his debut EP, 'We Are' set the tone for his summery, melodic, upbeat sound.

Organizer of noises (I know nothing about music)

http://malisima.me

Malísima (it/she/they) understood art for the first time on a Tuesday at 8 a.m., crying in the streets of La Seu D’Urgell on the way to class at an arts-focused high school program they would drop out of three months later. Self-proclaimed "avant-garde experimentalist" and referred to as "malísima (in the head)" by those close to her, she draws on pop culture and her fragile psycho-emotional health as influential elements in her work.

With no clear sense of where she's from or how old she is, she seeks to build a sonic home (and make a living—because hey, that wouldn’t be so bad either) through bastardly contemporary productions that mix all the ingredients—internal and external—from her everyday environment.

And sometimes, no-input mixing, because who doesn’t love an impossible love story?

“Sometimes I thought about what time it was. Then I was on the verge of tears. Then I laughed a lot.”
-Amnesia Scanner, AS ANGELS RIG HOOK

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