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Godfather Sage is a forward-thinking producer and DJ who is sure to rock the minds and hearts of many a listener and the feet of many a dancer. After taking the Washington DC drum & bass scene by storm in the early 2000s, Sage went on to mesmerize crowds near and far with his trademark eclectic sets. He is known to incorporate many genres including hiphop, r&b, pop, dubstep, house, disco, reggae and drum & bass, all the while spearheading a sound and vision that is uniquely his own. A steady force representing DC and Baltimore, he has been garnering international attention for his uncompromising approach to the art and soul of electronic and urban music.

Raj Maddela is a drummer, producer and DJ. He has performed with Karsh Kale, Anoushka Shankar, Falu, the Midival Punditz, Vishal Vaid, Jamshied Sharifi, Mark Copely, Jonathan Maron, Damon Banks, and a host of other well known names in the World Electronic genre. He has been involved in the NYC drum and bass scene since 1997, and has been DJ'ing since 2000. His DJ sets can be described as powerful, eclectic, and positive, referencing the history of the genre while at the same time unveiling its future. His production work ranges from atmospheric IDM, melodic dubstep, leftfield drum n bass, minimal techno, and everything in between.

Born into a musical family of well known names in various circles, Ditchdigger has been surrounded by music his whole life. At age 12 picked up guitar briefly, but once discovering the sounds in his head could best be expressed with synthesizers there was no turning back.

As an artist his first love in electronic music is analog synths and drum machines (as opposed to those who went the traditional DJ route); though he now uses a combination of analog gear and software, when he began making music it was strictly with hardware, midi, and dreadful oms all recorded onto cassette. Never having been aligned with a particular genre, Ditchdigger draws primarily for inspiration on the artists whose work revolved around sound design and iconoclastic approaches to the artform - the early innovators like Alvin Lucier, Stockhausen, Brian Eno, the early Warp Records artists - in addition to the rhythm and funk ethos of primal Detroit techno and electro: Drexciya, Underground Resistance, Model 500 and so on.

Unsure of where he fit in, Ditchdigger made music strictly in private for most of the last decade, but in recent years came the realization that, in a culture which is constantly morphing and evolving, no artist of import is bound by strict lines of genre. In that regard, his DJ style is bound only by tempo rather than genre, and features more exclusive remix/mashup based tunes than a traditional DJ set. Ditchdigger's performances blend a history of influences with original material into a unique brand of funk, as appropriate for listening as it is for the dancefloor.

DJ Pos has been a student of music for her entire life; a mere 26 years old, she has devoted the last eight years to the art of DJing. Though in the past year or so she has become totally enamored of the techno-dubstep fusion sound which has lately come to prominence, she first fell in love with electronic music through the more sophisticated forms of drum+bass and jungle, drawing influence from figures like LTJ Bukem and Calibre. In her ongoing quest to find a community of like-minded musicians, Pos spent years paying her dues in the rave scene- she hosted several regular nights of her own and was billed at countless larger events alongside everyone from Ed Rush+Optical to Drumagick- but, as she watched the music evolve, she grew deeply dissatisfied with the rigid and static attitudes espoused by the traditional underground dance music scene and began to use her stature as an established artist in the community as a means to bend and break conventional understandings of electronic music. Though these iconoclastic endeavors have not always been well-received- she was banned from broadcasting on DnBTV for playing techno- she has an uncompromising vision; through the lens of her formidable skill with the turntables, DJ Pos turns her vision into a unique and impassioned musical experience.