TOKiMONSTA + NOYA RAO x WONKY LOGIC [B2B LIVE] + TACAT [DJ]

Event information

TOKiMONSTA
[ELECTRONICA/INSTRUMENTAL HIP-HOP, LOS ANGELES]
www.tokimonsta.com
www.facebook.com/tokimonsta
www.twitter.com/tokimonsta www.soundcloud.com/tokimonsta
Los Angeles native, TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee) is known for her unique take on electronic,hip hop, and dance music. Her classical upbringing and eclectic taste in music has allowed her to create vast textural soundscapes—a reverberation that fuses vintage sensibilities with progressive inclinations. Since 2010, she has released 2 full albums, 2 EPs, 2 vinyl only singles through Ultra Records (US), Sony (Korea), Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune (US/UK), Art Union (Japan), Black Acre (UK), Ramp (UK), and All City (Ireland).
Her music has been recognized by the very best in tastemaker and mainstream media. TOKiMONSTA has been featured on various worldwide radio programs such as: BBC Radio1 (UK), NPR (USA), BBC World Service (UK), J Wave (JP), Studio Brussels (BE), Radio Nova (FR), KCRW (LA) to name a few. Subsequently, DJ Mag, Pitchfork, The Guardian, XLR8R, Paper, LA Times, Dazed and Confused, SPIN, Wax Poetics, MTV, VIBE, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Sound and Recording and more have covered her. She has been ranked by LA weekly as LA’s best female DJ (noting her versatility as a producer). Additionally, Resident Adviser featured her for their “Breaking Through” series, which focuses on the next break through artist. Not only has she caught ears of many as a different dimension of Los Angeles-based music, TOKiMONSTA is notably the first female to join Flying Lotus’ crew/label BRAINFEEDER, which is on the forefront of LA music scene.
Recognition of her music has given her the opportunity to tour the world. In a never-ending effort to stay on top of technological and musical advances, she uses cutting edge technology with pieces of musical and multimedia gear. She participated in the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in London in 2010. In the summer of 2012, she was apart of the Full Flex Express tour, the first electronic music themed train tour that traveled across Canada with Skrillex, Diplo, Pretty Lights, and Grimes. She performed on the very first SS Coachella--Golden Voices’ first ocean cruise festival. Some notable past performances were at Coachella, Sonar Barcelona, DEMF, WMC, Electric Zoo, SXSW, Camp Bisco, Decibel Festival. 2014 will include festival plays at Sonar Barcelona (2nd time), Glastonbury, Roskilde, Sasquatch, with more to be announced.

NOYA RAO
[ELECTRONICA/DOWNTEMPO, LEEDS]
www.facebook.com/noyaraomusic
http://noyarao.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/noyarao

WONKY LOGIC
[ELECTRONICA/DOWNTEMPO, LEEDS]
www.facebook.com/wonkylogic
http://wonkylogic.bandcamp.com/

Welcome to the spotlight, Leeds-based musician and producer Wonky Logic, aka Dwayne Kilvington. An upcoming force on the left-field hip-hop scene, Wonky Logic blends soulful electronics with crunk beats. The upcoming Mindmarket - EP (release expected December) marks his debut on Boom Better Records with six tracks of futuristic head-nodders that cement the young producer as one of the most exciting new prospects the UK has to offer experimental hip hop.

Owing as much to sample-culture as to his background as a jazz pianist, Wonky Logic sculpts his compositions with expansive space-age synths underpinned by clever bass work and off-kilter drums. His unique production style has a remarkably human feel; electronic soundscapes and beautiful harmonies are driven forward with a post-funk sensibility that grabs your ears and doesn’t let go.

“I guess my mum pumping reggae vinyls had a heavy influence on the music I make. The intricate basslines got me; Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Steel Pulse plus all the rest got played daily… I recently DJ’d a set just using my mums vinyls, it went down pretty well...”

TACAT [DJ]
https://soundcloud.com/tacat/slut-drop-mix-june-2014
www.facebook.com/slutdropleeds