Bio
Cynthia Lewis is a seasoned San Francisco Bay Area singer with over 25 years of experience in performing and recording across multiple genres, including jazz, swing, rock, and electronica. Throughout her career, she has fronted her own jazz quartets, collaborated with DJs, and stepped in for cover bands while also providing backup harmonies both live and in the studio. For three years, she was the lead vocalist for The New Morty Show, a big band, and played the lead role in Abigail, The Salem Witch Trials, A Rock Opera for 1.5 years.

After the passing of her father, she has emerged with newfound strength and wisdom, feeling that rock music is the natural next step in her evolution as an artist. Now, with decades of experience behind her, she channels all that energy and emotion into her performances, continuing to push boundaries and inspire audiences.

Part-time audiovisual engineer. Full-time hardware and software engineer. From mad beats, to wicked graphics and video, to making the gadgets you check my mad beats and wicked graphics and video on, I'm always building something. I'm the mad scientist your mother told you to marry.

08012019: NEW MUSIC AMD FINISHED TRACKS COMING SOON!

Sp_aces is a soulful thing. Playing with elastic time on a funky blues evening. Sitting on your porch on another planet. 

Some call the music "enchanted rock." 
Study Breaks magazine called them the Best Local Band in San Marcos at the close of 2014. But who is it, and why?

Now there's some hard-workin' boys for ya. Sp_aces has a lot to say, and only three young men with which to say it, so everyone plays an important singular roll. Frank smashes his drums with a thoroughly-contemplated ferocity. Eric slaps and slides and slices and dices and shakes the very foundations of the venue with his patented thunderbass. Can the building withstand such an onslaught? They've been lucky so far. And good ol' William's there to ensure everyone's having a good time and he even sings and shoots off some jagged smooth licks. Born in England, born in Florida, born here, it no longer matters, as time is an illusion. And here we are. 

So Sp_aces invites you: 

To go back in time aboard the "Pilgrim," and check out some dinos,

To arm yourselves to the gills, and prepare to battle the great "Nautilus,"

To run for your life from zombies, as "They Are Coming Through the Door,"

To peer into the mind of the "Dictator," and to rise up against him,

To discover "The Mathematical Equivalent of Salvation," and save yer soul,

To see that "Soul's On Fire," and to quench the flames,

And to "Come To the Party," Marty. 

Now cast aside your expectations, your preconceptions, your inhibitions, and your fears. Open your ears and look at the stars. All we offer you is something different, and a catchy tune.


Rock The Discotek (RTD) needs no introduction, but he certainly warrants one. Presenting legendary parties in San Diego, such as the ENTER THE TECH series, The Secret Formula, Danksgiving, Don’t Sweat The Technique, The Sounds Of Tomorrow and NYE Bloom all  at top secret exotic locations - Importing that magic “underground after hours vibes” from legendary clubs and festivals such as: The king king (LA) Space Ibiza, Amnesia, DC10, The Zoo Project, Glastonbury and Arcadia making it his own.  Rock The Discotek, promises a underground sound experience, with a wide variety of House & Techno from opening to closing sets. The list goes on as he keeps the underground movement strong. Keep your eyes and ears glued to the streets because this is one show you don’t want to miss...

The name "Rock The Discotek" was born after falling in love with the “Chord Memory" (Daft Punk Remix)The thriller proved to be a natural born killer behind the decks and has been tearing up dance floors across the globe.

Rock The Discotek works hard to show the world how he rolls with technique turntables and CDJs ‘n’ EFX: rinsing every mix, building energy, skillfully fusing an array of old and new school flavors, edits, bootlegs and acapellas into a slick Underground tribal signature style.

Rock The Discotek has a wicked music selection from all over the world. In recent years, he has opened up for top DJs which has gained the respect of fans throughout Canada, US, Mexico, Colombia, Brasil, UK, Ibiza.

Head honcho of @soundcloud.com/threesixtyrecords

Music selector for Radio Three Sixty

WHO IS DARKHORSE?

A Seasoned DJ, he has traveled all over the world to perform, playing along side the likes of Alex Patterson and the Orb, Hardkiss, Death in Vegas, Herbaliser, Amon Tobin, Pharcyde, Chemical Brothers, Tim Love Lee, Runaways UK, Coldcut, Kid Koala, Consolidated, Doc Martin, Rockers Hi-Fi, Daft Punk, Nick Kelly and Dave Seaman to name a few and at clubs like The Gathering, Basics, Boogie Buffet, Groove Kitchen, Stompy, Black Diamond, Bulletproof, Deep Faith, Wicked, Area 51, Funky Tekno Tribe, Sound factory in NY, Nikita in SF, Heavenly, Ministry of Sound, and Renaissance at the Sanafir/Pacha in Egypt.

Darkhorse started Djing in 1993 at a Hardkiss party in San Francisco. In 1995 Charles Uzzel Edwards AKA Pure Evil and Dj Darkhorse started The Gardening Club in San Francisco, A Monday night affair, it offered a decompression for the SF music industry after a long hard weekend. Dj's had to play music they would drop for their friends at home on a sunday early morning after too hard a night out on the town. Dj's that played at the club were Matty Skylab, The Mammal aka DJ Thomas, Felix The Dog, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, DB, Jeno, Garth, Markie, Patrick Pulsinger, Pete Namlock and many more great Dj's from around the world passing through San Francisco. The club was set in the tropical restaurant location The Caribbean Zone. Inside the building was the Doobie Brothers old touring jet plane, made to look like it had crashed into a jungle. With one side of the plane looking out over the dancefloor. The roof slid back on the venue, so you could see the clear sky at night in the summer, as you listened to the music and eat free food from a vegan restaurant. The whole place was covered in tropical plants and waterfalls, a perfect place for The Gardening Club. We managed to take our form of music and Djing out from the second room at raves, to the main room and focus.

His Radio show, Radio Three Sixty is a popular podcast, with over 10,000 regular listeners.
http://soundcloud.com/dj-darkhorse

Music Production
Darkhorse is part of the band Fishbunny (Three*Sixty Records) and Three Wheels Out (Pussyfoot Records), as well as releasing music under his moniker Darkhorse. He writes music for his own label Three*Sixty Records. Other labels he has releases on are Moonshine, Ubiquity, City of Angels, Fax Label, Tummy Touch/Peace Feast, Primal, Om Records, V2 Japan, XLR8R and Pussy Foot.

Has scored films like Confessions of a Burning Man, Happily Even After with The Furze, Hunting the Zodiac and also puts his musical knowledge to work as a music supervisor for films and TV.

In 2007 he co-produced the 2009 Grammy winning album Global Drum Project. His new project was released June 21st 2011, after a year and half producing and mixing Jimmy the Fingers. http://soundcloud.com/threesixtyrecords/jimmythefingers-album-preview/

Back in the day Darkhorse served as a writer for magazines like Urb and XLR8R, reviewing and writing features. He also did a stint as an editor for XLR8R on the Downtempo/Electronic section of the mag.

Rabbi Darkside is a Hip Hop MC/DJ/Beatboxer/Educator, first appearing on wax and in NYC Public School classrooms in the year 2000. His movements and music aim to incite empathy and empowerment through social justice education and creative freedom. His prowess as a multi-elemental artist has led to 15 international tours, landed his latest album atop the CMJ Hip Hop charts and found him on MTV’s “Made,” Okayplayer, New York Times, the Today Show, CBS Early Show, HipHopDX, 2DopeBoyz, Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" and the Village Voice. Darkside blurs the line between Hip Hop, Jazz, Folk, Poetry and Progressive Soul, facilitated by his mastery of improvisation, vast influences and elastic collaborative abilities. Recent performance highlights include headlining the 2016 and 2015 Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC), 2014 SXSW, 2013 CMJ Festival, 2012 WNYC Battle of the Boroughs, while sharing stages and studios with Aloe Blacc, Antibalas, Black Sheep, Blue Man Group, Common, Da Beatminerz, DJ Rob Swift, Fishbone, Homeboy Sandman, J-Live, Prince Paul, Rahzel, Robert Glasper, Rosie Perez, Sadat X, Slick Rick, Soulive, Talib Kweli, The Coup and many others. He’s won every freestyle rap competition in NYC in the new millennium, including being the 20-time Freestyle Mondays “Off the Head Gameshow” Champion and 2010 End of the Weak MC Challenge U.S. Co-Champion. He is in his 3rd year as resident DJ at The Lesson, NYC’s acclaimed live Hip Hop jam session, and continues to prove himself one of the city’s favorite party rockers. Darkside is currently a professor at The New School (NYC), teaching seminars of his own design entitled “Hip Hop Pedagogy & Practice” and “Hip Hop Skills, Style & Science.” He is the co-founder of the Hip Hop Re:Education Project, a Hip Hop Education Fellow at the H2ED Hip Hop Ed Center at NYU, and the artistic creator of NYS Regents test prep program "Fresh Prep.” In 2015 he traveled to Kampala, Uganda as a Cultural Ambassador with the Next Level Initiative, a collaboration between the U.S. State Department and UNC-Chapel Hill, and in 2017 was the Visiting Artist at Universal American School in Dubai, where he ran workshops and performances focused on Artistic Voice in Cultural Communities. He is also a secular ordained minister and recently presided over his 7th wedding.

I'm a classical guitarist, composer and teacher. I hold a Bachelors of Music and I'm going for my Masters. I'm a Baroque music geek and like to improvise counterpoint. DM me for lessons!

Ralf GUM is one of the most respected figures in the house music scene for the distinctive qualities in his exceptional productions and DJ-sets. Since Ralf’s DJ career started in 1990 he always stayed true to his passion for cool and diverse house music. Harmony & Soul & Groove – are the main ingredients, but just some aspects of Ralf’s typical deep sound. With an instinctive feeling for the right vibe, he convincingly performed all over Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South- and North America. In autumn 2008 Ralf toured in South Africa for the first time with great response and was the first German house DJ who was booked in Botswana and Swaziland. In 2012 Ralf finally emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the world's current hot-bed for Soulful House Music, South Africa. 

Ralf GUM is producing music since 1993 and worked with notable artists such as Inaya Day, Beady Belle, Caron Wheeler, Robert Owens, Kenny Bobien, Michael Procter, Wunmi, Concha Buika or the fascinating Monique Bingham. He released on and remixed for top house labels like Mn2S, Papa, Peppermint Jam, Tommy Boy, Compose, Sole Music, Look At You or Defected. His first remix for Defected’s classic record 'Love is what you need (Look ahead)' by King Unique instantly went to the 1 position on Traxsource's download charts in March 2009. Ralf has released numerous well-known songs, amongst them the soulful hit of 2008 “Kissing Strangers” (GOGO Music) featuring Monique Bingham, which was a bestseller in its genre. Thus it scored the number 1 in the “Top 100 Singles 2008” and the “biggest house track 2008” in the annual chart of the ultra-credible Traxsource download-shop. Alone in 2009 Ralf’s works made it 4 times to the top spot in the Traxsource sales chart and he claimed various more Top 10 positions. But his success of course isn’t limited to the Traxsource charts. He had various #1 download-chart positions on Clickgroove, made it to the Top 10 sales of various other download shops and his single “Little W. 12th St.” was amongst the 10 best selling house-songs of the year on the Japanese download-site Wasabeat in 2009. His records are constantly receiving worldwide airplay and can be found in countless playlists of major radio stations including e.g. UK’s “BBC 1”, France’s “Radio FG” or South Africa’s “Metro FM”. Moreover he gained number one positions in the playlists “YFM’s Urban Top 40” or Botswana’s Yarona Mascom Charts where he stayed for instance for 4 weeks with “Complicated feat. Kafele” in May 2010. Further acclaimed hits of Ralf include “All This Love For You” (GOGO Music) featuring Diamondancer, “Ponle Tumbao” (Tommy Boy / Flamingo Discos / Milk & Sugar), "Helena Brown - Canção Dourada" (Peppermint Jam) or „Ralf GUM feat. Concha Buika – Nobody can touch me” (GOGO Music). Ralf GUM’s productions became a worldwide renown trademark in the house scene and UK’S TTR magazine called Ralf “one of Germany’s finest” already in 2005.

But Ralf not only convinces as a producer, but also his DJ-sets have helped him building up his reputation as a forward thinking tastemaker. During his career he had various residencies in South-Germany including the "Airport" (Wuerzburg /Germany), which was the living-room for his interpretation of house for more than 11 years. During more than a decade he captured the crowd with his sessions every Friday night and hosted other worlds-top artists like DJ Gregory, Martin Solveig, Lenny Fontana or Frankie Feliciano, to name just a few. End of 2006 Ralf started his residency at Climax in Stuttgart (Germany), where he can be found regularly since then. From 2002 till 2007 Ralf was holding a bi-weekly event at "Studio-Lounge" (Wuerzburg, Germany) which was called “the deepest and most soulful party of Germany” by the Subculture Magazine. In 2009 Ralf’s tight schedule included 2 extensive South Africa tours and Ralf was invited by DJU and the department of Arts and Culture to conduct various work shops at the Southern African Music conference. In 2010 and 2011 Ralf was selected again as international panellist for the annual Southern African Music Conference where he was teaching about music-production, label business, DJ-ing and more. Nowadays he is frequently found in various South African cities. As a DJ Ralf is steadily travelling and played at some of the best events around the world, including e.g. the “Southport Weekender” (Southport, UK), “Rave on Snow” (Saalbach, Austria), “Nature One” (Germany), “Sundaze” (Jakarta, Indonesia), “Dancevalley” (Amsterdam, Netherlands), “Mo’Vibes” (Munich, Germany) or the “Vodacom Unlimited Festival” (Orlando Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa) which was attended by more than 15000 people. He graced the decks at clubs like “360” (Dubai, UAE), “El Devino” (Ibiza, Spain), “Amika” (Miami, USA), “The Room” (Tokyo, Japan), “ECU / Echoes” (Rimini, Italy), “Garito Café” (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), “Disco” (Sao Paulo, Brasil), “Volksgarten” (Vienna, Austria), “House 22” (Pretoria, South Africa), “Days like this” (Birmingham, UK), “Barokko” (Budapest, Hungary) “Marula Cafe” (Madrid, Spain), “Soulstice” (Oslo, Norway), “Oxa” (Zürich, Switzerland), “Atlantis” (Basel, Switzerland), “Stereo Sushi” (Antwerp, Belgium), “Mansion” (Amsterdam, Netherlands), “GURU Club” (Tibisli, Georgia), “Pacha” (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) or “Cocoon” (Frankfurt, Germany).

Ralf GUM embarked on the development of his own record label GOGO Music in 2001. With strong ambitions and his love for music being the driving force, GOGO Music has become Germany’s, if not one of world’s most reputable soulful house music labels. Late 2005 GOGO Music was called “one of the hottest imprints around” by UK’s leading magazine “Blues & Soul” and Germany’s “Subculture” wrote that “GOGO Music is the prime German house label”. In April 2009 Chicago’s best house music publication “5 Magazine” stated, that “GOGO Music has become synonymous with the best Deep House produced in Europe” and 2010 UK’s magazine “SoulM8” certified that “GOGO Music is "one of Germany’s best independent labels". With his label-work Ralf has been pivotal for the international breakthrough of artists like Raw Artistic Soul or Black Coffee and the discovery of many other outstanding talents. In 2003 Ralf initiated the GOGO Music radio-show. What began as a monthly show transmitted on one internet-radio rapidly became one of the most popular broadcasts within the house community and beyond. Since early 2006 the radio show is done on a weekly basis and is to date aired by more than 50 FM- and internet-stations around the globe. The GOGO Music radio show residents Ralf GUM and Benny Pecoraio (aka Ben Moss) plus few selected guests are presenting hebdomadal nothing but the finest house music in a pure one hour DJ mix.

Next to his Ralf GUM productions, he started two further projects. "SUGAR BEAT", is a collaboration with drummer Steffen Meder which developed out of their unique live performance: “Jazzy Live Drums & Uplifting Spinning”. With SUGAR BEAT’s irresistible sound a new broken beat style is being created. After some sweet remixes on GOGO Music, in 2006 the first own productions have been released on the “GOGO Music Spring Collection 06”. Together with soul-mate Benny Pecoraio, Ralf joined forces and started “4 Ears”. Their first release 'Can't Be Without You' was signed to Canadian deep house label Iwanai Music and hit immediately the Traxsource Top10.

During his career Ralf had the pleasure to compile and mix various CD-Compilations including for example “Arrival Vol. I” in 2004, a double Mix-CD together with Howard Donald (of famous pop-group Take That), for which they toured together all over Germany. As well in 2004 Ralf’s compilation “Studio – the finest in lounge and house music”, was released and selected as CD of the month in the December edition of Germany’s “Raveline” magazine. In February 2005 the first GOGO Music label-compilation “GO!” including highlights of the first 3 years label work came out. It was called the best compilation of the year by UK’S “TTR” magazine. In October 2006 the second part “GO!!” hit the market and achieved likewise attention and success as the first edition.

In 2006 Ralf GUM held his first GOGO Music Winter Music Conference event in Miami with great success. With an impressive line-up including e.g. Kenny Dixon Jr aka Moodyman, Theo Parrish, Markus Enochson, Glenn Underground plus the GOGO Music DJs, the party went down in a storm and was one of the most talked about at the conference. 2007 saw GOGO Music teaming up with Atal Music and Bubble Soul for a joint WMC event at Hotel Victor, called “Yes Please”. With an equally great line-up including e.g. Jamie Lewis, Raw Artistic Soul and many others, it was a great success and the kick-off for further “Yes Please” parties: The critical acclaimed WMC event in 2008 at Sagamore and the ADE 2008 event at Mansion. More highlights worth to adduce are Ralf’s appearance at MTV’s “Battle of the DJs” in April 2003 and several invitations to the You.FM Clubnight , a show dedicated to electronic music and club culture, which was transmitted on the German national radio-and TV-station Hessischer Rundfunk (2 times in 2005, one time in 2006, 2007 and 2009).

In 2008 Ralf GUM unveiled his long awaited debut masterpiece album titled “Uniting Music” on his label GOGO Music. Composing a continuous piece of music, seamless and blended into a luscious texture of soulful-, afro-and latin-house and jazz inspired grooves, Ralf showcased his ability to create wonderful original songs. With each song intertwining with another, he’s pushing the boundaries well beyond the traditional dj mix sense! Almost seeming like one beautiful track the whole album contained it all: really pretty dreamy tracks, some real groovin’ live sounding deals and some late night slices of hypnotic house, too. The album received great plaudit worldwide, as for example UK’s “M8” Magazine called the CD „simply one of the best albums of the year” and the German 3Sat TV show “Kulturzeit” wrote on its web-site that “no single second of the album bores”. “Uniting Music” was released by Rambling Records in Japan and by Soul Candi in South Africa, too.

2012 saw the release of Ralf GUM’s second long-player titled “Never Leaves You” including “Take Me To My Love” which has become the biggest House Anthem in South Africa this summer and reached the number #1 spot on South Africa’s biggest radio-station Metro FM for 3 weeks. It’s just one of the many highlights on Ralf’s album, a sort of vocal house dream team, bringing together the heavenly tonsils of Kenny Bobien, Robert Owens, Kafele and former Soul II Soul star Caron Wheeler amongst many others. In the talented hands of Ralf that team complimented rather than countered an impressive, truly soulful collection of songs and emphatically demonstrates his ability to orchestrate soul-house goodness on the grandest possible scale. The album not only received critical acclaim globally, but reached GOLD status in South Africa.

The hallmark of Ralf’s sound is his love for jazzy harmonies coupled with wicked underground beats. But the distinctive groove isn’t the only reason for Ralf’s success – his passion for all things soulful shines through in all he does. This helps him creating a simply irresistible groove every time he emerges from the studio or works the turntables. Due to his successful work in various areas there is no denying that Ralf GUM has established in the top-league of the most prolific dj/producers in the house scene.

Links: 

Label-website: www.GOGO-Music.net
Artist-web-site: www.RalfGUM.com
Facebook-site: facebook.com/Ralf.GUM.GOGO 
Myspace-site: www.myspace.com/RalfGUM
Twitter: www.twitter.com/RalfGUM
Youtube: www.youtube.com/RalfGUM 
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/ralf-gum-gogo-music


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