I remember meeting this dude a year and a half ago outside my hotel in Miami during WMC. He looked just like my hardcore hipster, hardcore Jewish friend Berel and so I was like, “dude, you gotta take a photo with me”. He told me he goes by Gaslamp Killer. If I didnt know he was referring to, ‘in the dj scene’, I probably would have ran, but we were in miami for one of the biggest dj conferences, so I was like, “tight”. He was like, “yea, I dj with a mic and scream it out over tracks, so everyone remembers my name”. Fast forward a year and the dude is picked up by turntablelab, the most prestigious record shop in the world ? and I notice that they are selling Shepard Fairey posters for SXSW with Diplo, Shepard himself as DJ Diabetic and none other than, the Gas Lamp Killer himself! Dude is making moves! It was around that time that Shepard picked him up for his Obey Records. If you still don’t know Shepard of Obey is probably the most amazing artist of our time and the designer behind Obama’s HOPE image. If you are in Israel this week check out GLK djing at BLOCK in Jerusalem on the 4th and SPICE in Tel Aviv on the 5th.
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.
I remember meeting this dude a year and a half ago outside my hotel in Miami during WMC. He looked just like my hardcore hipster, hardcore Jewish friend Berel and so I was like, “dude, you gotta take a photo with me”. He told me he goes by Gaslamp Killer. If I didnt know he was referring to, ‘in the dj scene’, I probably would have ran, but we were in miami for one of the biggest dj conferences, so I was like, “tight”. He was like, “yea, I dj with a mic and scream it out over tracks, so everyone remembers my name”. Fast forward a year and the dude is picked up by turntablelab, the most prestigious record shop in the world ? and I notice that they are selling Shepard Fairey posters for SXSW with Diplo, Shepard himself as DJ Diabetic and none other than, the Gas Lamp Killer himself! Dude is making moves! It was around that time that Shepard picked him up for his Obey Records. If you still don’t know Shepard of Obey is probably the most amazing artist of our time and the designer behind Obama’s HOPE image. If you are in Israel this week check out GLK djing at BLOCK in Jerusalem on the 4th and SPICE in Tel Aviv on the 5th.