Time is a hip-hop artist from the mid-west, and also in the group Calm. He has  been featured on Noisey/VICE, toured Europe, US the Vans Warped Tour.  From being compared to William S. Burroughs as a rapper mixed with  Andre 3000, Time is known for his reflective, poetic, lyrics often dipped in dystopia and social commentary. He is also the host of the Time Talks podcast.    
Time has worked with Kool Keith, Jake One, Budo, Xiu Xiu, Factor, Ceschi, Sole, Ron Miles, and done engineering/production work for Common on The Dreamer / The Believer with James Poyser and Black America Again with Robert Glasper.

Time was picked as one of URB's Next 100 Artists and was picked as top artist for MTV2 On The Rise. Time is also a journalist and has worked with Noam Chomsky.

“KOBYA” formally “Carlos X Panguana” grew up in the African township in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, a country gripped by war for many years. He became the youngest member of Xingombela youth dance troupe at age of 7, Thanks to his elder brother’s wedding anniversary where his talent was discovered. He took the entertainment
business seriously.

After playing professional soccer as a teenager, he packed his bags and headed to Gauteng, also known as Johannesburg or city of gold, in South Africa, to join his other family members. As he had damaged his
knees playing soccer, he joined the fashion world and studied photography.

The struggle for the right to be recognized as a human being intensified as the South African government imposed a state of emergency. KOBYA had no other choice but to join the struggle as freelance photojournalist and reporter.

He was forced to flee as a political refugee. Luckily, music remained loyal to him through out the journey.

He is a gifted performer singer song writer and versatile multi-instrumentalist, He mixes roots (Marrabenta Mozambique Popular dance Music) & reggae occasionally throwing in some lovers rock to create his own original blend.

He tells his story with grace and ebullience, covering social and environmental issues, love, war and the despair of his fellow Mozambicans while celebrating life.

The salt of the Earth, KOBYA learnt how to abstract his craft turning pain to joy. His music puts a smile on your face and makes you want to dance! This amazingly down to earth, warm character combines his sense of humor with powerful soulful and rich tenor voice, to reach out his young and old fans – all without repeating any of his repertoire.

His performances and workshops are vibrant and fun for all ages, from beginners to professionals. Kobya offers a holistic cultural experience encompassing music, movement, rhythm and sound. His music puts a smile on your face and makes you want to sing and dance!

Kobya continues to explore and express his soul on this musical journey, he is currently working on his new album 'MoFyah' dedicating his work to the Highest Force, giving thanks through his lyrics as a free man & advocate of Truth.
Respect.

Releases:

Swamp (2015)
Biome (2016)
Archives Vol. 1 (2012-2016)
Nature - Music for Relaxation (2016)
The Search (2018)

Songwriter, singer, flute and sax player, guitar and live looping

SapphireUnique takes you through the struggle of expression & creativity growing up in Melbourne Australia. Dipping between genres of rap & hip-hop with dark electronic production, he creates a space-like ambience uncommon to existing Genres.

Sapph has been producing his own music since 2014, eventually selling Trap and Hip-Hop beats on Instagram, before finally deciding to pick up the mic to get his message out with a variety of vocal styles. This style can be most accurately defined as Electronic Cloud Rap, but often invades across other genres.

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Email: Sapphire.aus@gmail.com

Follow me on twitter @fuckscoby

Also make dance music under Scoby

Multi Dimensional songstress Empress Katia is an Enchantress of creativity and expression. 

Weaving magic within the tapestry of words and music in the intention to Empower, Inspire and powerfully reinforce the deeper connection to the self and all things and to the joy of life, activates, elevates and motivates those in the presence of this energy.

Soulful Earth Mama vocals with a lush honey like undertone melting into a unique flavor of Soul Funk Reggae Roots Jazz Hiphop RnB World fusion, this taste is bound to stay on your lips and dance through your mind with lyrics of powerful affirmations.

With an undying passion for playing music, as well as her own projects playing solo/duo and as a band Empress Katia has also been involved in many other musical projects. 

Starting off her collaboration journey fronting 7 Piece Band WUNLUV SOUND SYSTEM , ( a unique fusion of Live D'n'B with Traditional West African Rhythms, World Electronic Beats, Afro Latin Percussion and Didgeridoo) Empress Katia sang free style lyrics and Middle eastern style vocals and danced to the deep tribal sounds, once the band had to split she was then asked to join gold coast reggae/funk band CC The Cat singing back up vocals, also playing  Saxophone and Flute and dancing, Katia was also part of the groovin' Jazzy RnB Brisbane based band Ladi Abundance Project singing 3 piece harmonies in a 8 piece ensemble. Also singing backing vocals and playing percussion for gypsy folk/flamenco  songstress Felicity Lawless (Anarchist Duck/Bertha Control) as a duo and as part of the band. Also singing backing vocals for The Rosie Misschief Band. 
Her love for singing and performing has taken her on to support and share the stage with many other artist  such as Nattali Rize (Blue King Brown), Grace Barbe, Bobby Alu, Nicki Bomba, Isaac Chambers and Dub Princess, Naaman, The 4’20 Sound, Saritah, ALPHAMAMA, Mystic Beats, Essie Thomas,  Allensworth(USA),  The Upsteppers,  Mad Professor, DJ Vadim, Chris Munky, Tom Spirals and that’s just to name a few... also collaborating with incredible Dance hall Dancer Nadiah Idris (so you think you can dance) at Island Vibe festivals shows, to bring in the element of dance to the performance.

Katia loves nothing more then to share and explore the many pathways of music and entertainment creatively collaborating with many different artist and performers.
Recently exploring electronic music avenues recording with Producers such a ill gates, LubDub, The 420 sound, Elementry HiFi, FatBabs(france) and Atmoss

As a soloist/duo/band and as part of various other musical projects, Empress Katia has played at Festivals such as 
Splendour in the Grass, Island Vibe, Island Elements, Kuranda Roots Festival, Nimbin Mardi Grass, Green Day out, Earth Frequency Festival,  Organic River festival NZ, Parihaka International Peace Festival NZ, Coro Festival NZ, Multicultural Festival VIC, Fruit and Roots festival QLD, Bush Week festival, and many more...

Now based in the northern Rivers NSW, Empress Katia has been collaborating on different projects and is about to spend time in the studio recording  in collaboration with a number of passionate multi instrumentalist musicians and producers. Ready to take the music to a next level she has her sight on traveling and playing music all around the world to share a her expression in the world with a powerful conscious message to inspire others to also do so exploring the many magical paths of expression through creativity and the power of music. The most potent form of healing!

 
 
You can also follow Empress Katia on Facebook Reverbnation and Instagram!
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