EVENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO,CA
MASSIVE SELECTOR: This
crew brings you house, hip-hop &
rare groove. Past guests include Dj SPINNA, J-BOOGIE, Dj Bre-Ad & VINROC.
TRUE SKOOL: Home to the best weekly hip hop night in SF.
SF Station: San Francisco Bay Area's definitive online city guide to Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, and Urban Living.
ARTISTS/ DESIGNERS/ WRITERS
AS1 / INFINITRANSFORMATION
: This artist has shaped the way you invision musicians soundscapes.
His work can be seen on covers for PHOENECIA, OTTO VON SCHIRACH, TIPPER, and labels like
SCHEMATIC, FUEL, COUNTER FLOW, and ULTRA.
ERNIE PANICCIOLI
: Considered to be the "Hip Hop photographer to the stars, " Paniccioli has captured
every MC to bless the microphone. Checkout a selection of his work in the book "WHO SHOT YA?" out now on
Harper Collins books. Grab a copy at your favorite local bookstore.
JEFF CHANG
: Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music.
Checkout a selection of his work in the book "Can't Stop Won't Stop" out now through
St. Martin's Press. Grab a copy at your favorite local bookstore.
DAVE WHITE
: UK based painter Dave White takes his love for sneakers to the next level !
COMMON SPACE : Founded by Jon Santos, this graphic design studio has taken print design to another plateau.
FABRIC8 GALLERY
:Olivia Ongpin and Antony Quintal presents The FABRIC8 Gallery;
a new gallery specializing in San Francisco urban art.
HIP HOP, B-BOY AND B-GIRL SITES
ZULU NATION
: Zulu Nation Stands For International Hip Hop Awareness, Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Peace, Unity, Love, Respect, Work, Fun, Overcoming the Negative with the Positive, Economics, Mathematics, Science, Life, Truth, Facts, And Faith.
Temple of hiphop.org
:The Temple's purpose is to promote, preserve, and protect Hiphop as a strategy toward Health, Love, Awareness and
Wealth for all who declare "Hiphop" their lifestyle.
DaveyD.com
: Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist.
b-boy.com
: Hip hop rap music forum with links to underground hip-hop sites, graffiti pictures, deejay bios, breakdance crews, and MC freestyle lyrics.
B-GIRL THE MOVIE
: Emily Dell has writen and directed this short film about what it means to be a breaker.
MUSIC ARTISTS
BASS KITTENS & VOLSOC
: SF based electro label featuring the next wave in electro.
BLUE SCHOLARS
:Seattle's MC Geologic and DJ/Producer Sabzi of Blue Scholars continue to the carry the torch for the Pacific
Northwest's burgeoning Hip-Hop scene.
CYBRID
: Bumpn'electro funk music. This is official u.s. site of AElectro/Exact Science recording artist.
CROWN CITY ROCKERS:
a genre-blending hip-hop sollective whose music is original, powerful and provocative all in the same breath and follows in the storied footsteps of such pioneers as The Roots, De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest.
CYLOB: Rephlex artist who occasionally gets down and dirty on the lino.
DISCO D
: From Detroit Ghettotech and rugged Hip Hop beats to his work with bilingual Brazilian
supergroup, BRAZA, Disco D is on the top of the music game.
DYNAMIX 2: Electro rockers from the u.s.a. responsible for many cliched electro tunes and their magnificent mix cd on rephlex. They truly deserve our respect. bass!
HEADNODIC:
Musician/ producer Headnodic is part of the Crown City Rockers, the Mighty Underdogs and Megaphone.
JOHN TEJADA
: He has embraced electronic music as a personal frontier, expanding on his resume as a techno recording artist as producer, remixer, DJ, and label owner.
J-BOOGIE
: One of SF's top DJs. Look for his recent album on OM records.
KRAFTWERK: The originators of electro. Created classic b-boy cut "Tour De France".
RASCO
: True Oakland hip hop from the streets, Rasco has years of dope rhyming under his belt.
THE SUPPLICANTS
: Rooted in the pure sounds of group improvisation, The Supplicants bridge styles of world, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and electronic music. .
ZION-I:
The spiritual core of the Bay Area's underground Hip Hop movement.
Zeph & Azeem
:One of the Bay Area's finest duos, DJ Zeph and Azeem.
RECORD LABELS
BREAKIN' RECORDS: Basically the output of ed dmx and his dmx krew.
DHAMAAL RECORDS: Composed of DJ, Skratch DJ,
3 Tabla Players, Dumbek Player and 2 Visual DJs the Soundsystem creates a show that is intense and cohesive.
ELEKTROLUX RECORDS: German based label with an excellent roster and a pretty good site.
ERSATZ AUDIO: Detroit label that brought us adult, great design and some excellent photography.
CONTEXT RECORDS
: SF's SUTEKH has released music on labels such as Force Inc./Mille Plateaux, Source,
Minus, Orthlorng Musork, Cytrax, and his own Context.
DC RECORDINGS
:Home to J. Saul kane/Depth Charge,this label featuresground breaking contemporary
artists as well as exclusive issues of lost sound tracks and Holy Grail hip hop classics.
THE GENIE: Inventor of the "Scratch Guitar".
ISOTOPE RECORDS
: SF based label bridges styles of world, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and electronic music.
LOOK RECORDS: Home of SF'own DJ Design and
Foreign Legion.
POCKETS LINTED: The Bay Area's top MC RASCO
PALETTE RECORDINGS
: one of the most respected techno labels in the world.
PRETENSION RECORDS
: LA based electro label featuring the next wave in electro.
RECLUSE RECORDINGS
:Helsinki based Hip Hop label featuring Staffro, Flam, Jake The Break, Al-P, Kimmo Nurmi & Vellu V.
SCHEMATIC RECORDS: CRAZY ASS MUSIC FROM MIAMI.
TIGERBEAT6 RECORDS: KID 606 and his crew
creating musical havoc all around the world.
ORTHLORNG MUSORK RECORDS: SF's KIT CLAYTON has created a label full of musical gems.
INTUIT SOLAR RECORDS: Home to DJ assault and detroit grand pubahs amongst others.
PSI49NET: Anthony Rother's label. What more needs to be said.....
REPHLEX RECORDS: Not strictly electro, but they have managed to put out some fantastic releases.
ROTTERS GOLF CLUB: Andrew's eclectic record label is home to many strange sounds.
STRIPE RECORDS: Brighton based label releasing some top-class electro.
TORTURED / ELECTRIX RECORDS: Billy nasty's superlative techno / electro label featuring artists like mystic, letter k and zeta reticula.
WARP: Yes, yes they get enough coverage, but it is home to the two lone swordsmen.
MAGAZINES THAT WE LIKE.
RE:UP MAGAZINE
: quarterly music and graphic arts publication.
XLR8R.COM
America's independent voice of electronic music and the culture that surrounds it.
HYPHEN MAGAZINE
: Hyphen is a news and culture magazine that illuminates Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest growing ethnic population in America.
Yellow Rat Bastard
: YRB Magazine is street based with a bold against-the-grain approach and a cheeky sense of humor. It is geared towards an audience who are interested in all aspects of the urban scene including street fashion, hip-hop graffiti, extreme sports, body art, contemporary and traditional arts, music and literature.
Beautiful Decay
: Founded on the theory that " if you can't find it, You make it", Beautiful/Decay was created to bridge the gap between art and graffiti, underground and mainstream, design and fine art, Punk rock and hip hop, illustration and design, and most importantly high and low art.