Diwon has remixed a diverse array of artists from Lana Del Rey and Miike Snow to Snoop Dog and Stevie Wonder. The LA-based Producer/DJ, is known for his unique blend of world music with beat-driven cultural rarities gives his work its distinct sound. MTV highlighted Diwon for his blend of hip hop and dancehall. The Producer/DJ is always full of surprises, and his ‘i heart mixtape’ is no exception. For the holiday season, Diwon presents a mix devoted to what pop music is made of, LOVE…just in time for the season devoted to it. In this mix, Diwon mixes various languages and genres as well as some of his own sounds into the music of which love is made.
Included on the mix are sounds from; The Concretes, Cat Power, Finley Quaye, Buju Banton, Blur, Smokey Robinson, and Anounshka Shankar to name a few.
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.
