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In the year 2009, Ghostmind walked into Los Angeles with a bass guitar strapped to his back and a military-style satchel hanging from his shoulder. With no memories reaching beyond a few years, Ghostmind wandered the streets, a vagabond, an unknown. He met a dying man in South Central who gave him the key to his '86 Mallard RV before he left to enter hospice in Victorville. A supernaturally-gifted mechanic and engineer, Ghostmind began working at an auto shop in Southgate. Observers generally described him as quiet, withdrawn. Laura, the daughter of the shop owner and eventually a close friend of Ghostmind, described him as "being from nowhere, attached to nowhere and going nowhere."

I am the owner of Random Acts of Music music Studio and we are located in the CrossroadsArts District of downtown Kansas City.

Kansas City-native d’Jawnz is a Rap/R&B/Soul producer painting melodic and sultry portraits on an urban contemporary canvas. He’s influenced by the likes of 9th Wonder, Cam O’bi, Dilla, Dr. Dre and MNDSGN.  

The veteran beatmaker, of more than 20 years, cut his teeth as a part-time musician and choir director of his childhood church. The rich Black Baptist tradition he grew up in trained his musical ear for the impassioned and deeply emotional music he would come to make decades later. 

His debut production album APT L (A Prelude to LOVE) was released in October of 2021. d’Jawnz is currently producing for local and regional artists. 

· 3rd Place, iStandard KC Qualifier, 2016
· Semi-Finalist, iStandard BOTBX, 2016
· Winner, iStandard Beat of the Week, 2018
· Finalist, iStandard Trakhouse SXSW, 2018 
· Winner, PWRBassline Beat of the Week, 2021
· 2x Semi-Finalist, Fresh Produce, 2021


Contact: fudgefactorysounds@gmail.com

Royce Diamond (artist/producer/engineer) burst onto the scene of Kansas City hip hop in 2008 with his mix tape Aficionado.  Currently working on his fourth studio album Royce Diamond has been presenting features and singles into the glimpse of what is to come on his next record, due out in 2016.

In 2012 Royce Diamond started his own Record Label “Random Acts of Music”.  The first release from the label has yet to hit shelves but the label has acquired two artist/producer’s (Dotsun76 and DJ X-Sinna) who also have 2016 releases in the air.  Check for Royce Diamond anywhere you buy music.

Audio Archive / Here We Are. We Are Here. 
is an Audio Archive designed by Strange Fruit Femmes for friends, sisters, and comrades. 
Strange Fruit Femmes is a collective that centers the works of Black femmes living and thriving in the Midwest --
in an interest to build and cultivate a community of care and support for BIPOC Femmes through transformative ARTs.  

Here We Are. We Are Here is coming together… An honoring of the words,sounds, and spaces that hold us. Using the legacy of Black, Brown, and Indigenous, music and literature, we will celebrate and be in conversation with one another about the many influences of our peers and ancestors' work on the spectrum of contemporary Black Artistic life and spirit and its place in our society. 

While carrying the gift of storytelling and cultural preservation each recording will be archived as an oral herstory,using Audio Collage Assemblage to communicate memories, illuminate paths forward, and hold care for and support the presence of Black and Indigenous artistic spirituality.

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