Maneesh the Twister is founder of Surya Dub, the Ambasssodors of Dread Bass Culture. He was also co-founder of the Dhamaal Artist Collective. Maneesh was voted the Best Club DJ of San Francisco by the SF Bay Guardian! His productions appear on Dhamaal's debut Dhamaal Soundsystem CD which entered the I-tunes top 20 Electronic charts and also on Dhamaal's Transition EP under the moniker Echotwist with production partner Jethro. Also his track "Frankie's Next Move" appeared on XBOX 360 game "Project Gotham" and SONY BMG India's Shamur compilation! He also has tracks on Kush Arora’s “Dub Elements,” “FromBrooklyn to SF” and “Boiling Over” releases.

Maneesh has quite varied tastes and spins dub reggae, dubstep, breakbeat, drum’n’bass, dancehall, glitch hop, bhangra, and anything with BASS. Being heavily influenced by dub reggae, he is also a resident of the longest running weekly dub & roots night in the United States, Dub Mission, which is 12+ years and dubbing! He also held international residencies in Mumbai and Bangkok at Bed Supperclub in Thailand. In addition to his club jocking, Maneesh has been rinsing the airwaves from KNNC in Austin, TX to KUSF in SF. Maneesh toured India and the UK and rocked over 3000 folks on Baga Beach in Goa at the VH1 New year's eve party! Maneesh has shared the stage with Lee “Scratch” Perry, Thievery Corporation, François K, Smith & Mighty, Nickodemus, Kode 9, Badmarsh & Shri, State of Bengal, The Bug, Warrior Queen, Flying Lotus, DJ Hatcha, dj/rupture, Karsh Kale, Headhunter, Dub Gabriel, 2562, Adrian Sherwood (On-U sound), Bobby & Nihal, MIDIval PunditZ, Dum Dum Project, Cheb I Sabbah, MRK 1, J Boogie, Navdeep, Z-Trip, Solomonic Sound (Rob Paine), Badawi, Dub Gabriel, Dan the Automator & the legendary Jamaican producer, Scientist.

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Kush Arora was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has had a lifetime of exposure and involvement in underground music. His current blend of dread bass, bhangradancehall, and dubstep,is only one of the many incarnations he has had as an artist.  He started his visions as a metal/punk drummer  also producing experimental, industrial, and twisted incarnations of dance music in his group Involution. He has worked with vocalists like Warrior Queen, Juakali, N4SA, Mc Zulu, and Sukh, putting out 5 CDs and two vinyl releases (including the recent "Dread Bass Chronciles" and "Dub Elements: Ocean" on color vinyl) and has remained an active live performer in the Bay Area and beyond. Kush and the Surya Dub crew have performed with the likes of Thievery Corporation, Flying Lotus, The Bug, Dr. Israel, Pinch, and won two awards for best club night in San Francisco. His riddims have been featured on BBC 1, Pitchfork and, URB, and charting on the CMJ charts.

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Kid Kameleon has been mixing, mashing, and maximizing bass genres for over 10 years, ever since he got his start with DJ Spooky and the Soundlab collective in New York in the late 90s. A champion of outsider music styles and eclectic mixing techniques rooted in a core of hip-hop, jungle, and dub, these days the Kid’s sets take in ever-widening genres from breakcore to b-more, dubstep to dancehall, club, pop and even rock. He’s proudly performed in over two dozen countries, from Canada to Estonia, and has shared the stage with Kool Herc, U-Roy, Asian Dub Foundation, Alec Empire, Squarepusher, Dizzee Rascal, The Bug and Warrior Queen, Vex’d, Plastician, Flying Lotus, Kid 606, Maga Bo, Ghislain Poirier, Daddy Freddy, Drop The Lime, Mathhead, Flosstradamus. DJ C, WayneandWax, and Ripley, just to name a few. As a staff writer for XLR8R magazine, both his interviews and monthly column “Basic Needs” take readers to the furthest extremes electronic dance music, as do the numerous mixes he’s made for Shockout, Mashit, and dozens of other sites. He’s also a founder of San Francisco’s eclectic club night Surya Dub at Club Six, which won SF Weekly’s Best Club Night award in 2007 and the SF Bay Guardian’s “Best Ambassadors of Dread Bass” in 2008. As a blogger and scholar, his work ranges from measuring the social interactions of online networks to the implications of file-sharing on music business models, and he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Eff.org) to assess the laws and policies that affect the connection between creative communities and technology. Ultimately, his eclectic sets have bar tenders dancing on their own bars, and put smiles on faces of all types of club goers.

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Check out Kid Kameleon's MySpace page!

Jimmy Love, founder of San Francisco's legendary Non Stop Bhangra nights and resident of Best Club night Surya Dub, has been rocking San Francisco with his unique blend of world and hip hop mixes for years. A true lover of funky beats, Jimmy Love's remixes have been featured everywhere from the BBC Asian network to NYC's finest The Rub's remix wall.

Having played along side some of the biggest world DJ's around, he has also opened for superstar acts like Anoushka Shankar, Michael Franti and Ziggy Marley with his Non Stop Bhangra Collective live sets. A rising star from San Francisco, his hope is to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western dance floors all over the world.

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Amar is amongst a handful of local DJs whose taste cuts a path through an abundance of musical selections and leads dancefloors into a hypnotic sway. In this instance the muse is a masala that brews sounds from the Middle East and Balkans with rhythms of the Asian underground and electric Brazilian vibes. Whether its breaks, bhangra, dubstep, drum & bass or downtempo the global nature of Amar's sets bridges a multi-culti span from the world to the Bay Area.

As a DJ and promoter, he has collaborated and shared the stage with some of the Bay Area's & world's most innovative Musicians, DJs and dance troupes including DJ Dragonfly, DJ Sep, Dr. Israel, Freyja, Maneesh the Twister, Cheb i Sabbah, The Indigo, Sharon Kihara, Zoe Jakes & Beats Antique, Urban Tribal, Kush Arora, Ariellah, SooozhyQ, Dub Gabriel, Dhol Rhythms, Lorin, Nitin Sawhney, Unmata, Ansuya, Lady Ra & Beats without Borders, Third Eye Tribe, DJ Layla, Karsh Kale, FatChanceBellyDance, Janaka, State of Bengal, Dr Das & Ramjac, Jimmy Love, Frederique, Rachel Brice, Kami Liddle, Glitch Mob and others.

Producer and resident of the bay area's Global Gypsy night ELECTRIC VARDO, Amar regularly performs at SFs hottest venues including Club Six, DNA Lounge, Nickie's, 1015 Folsom, Temple, Amnesia, Mighty, Elbo Room and Rickshaw Stop with Dhamaal, Nonstop Bhangra, Surya Dub, Worldly, Opel, Dance Jam, Triple Power, & the Groove Garden plus other ongoing and special events & festivals in CA, Oregon, NYC, Washington, DC, Hawaii, Canada & beyond. Amar hosts bay area local events Hip'n'Bass, Shadowdance and Tribal Nights.

Check it out: Solunamar

Check it out: Electric Vardo

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MC Daddy Frank has been supporting sound systems for over 25 years, selecting, DJing (Patois for chatting pon da mic), and vibezing up the dance all the while.  He’s voiced productions for Maneesh the Twister, Kush Arora, Echotwist, Dave Sharma (Sharmaji), DK Bollygirl and many others.  Frankie always brings a positive vibe to the dance and is quite diverse on riddims ranging from roots and dancehall to asian underground, breaks, drum n bass, as well as Dubstep.

Contact VJs are a bit chomping duo from California. They bring light to the sound by pirating, remixing, artisting and scavenging thrilling multimedia for dance and standing-still performances alike. Your reality is already HALF video hallucination. If you're not careful, it will become TOTAL hallucination.

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