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.
Here are pictures of what we did this summer a.k.a. the past two weeks as part of Shemspeed Summer Fest in Chicago, NJ, Philly, and a slew of nights in our hometown NYC. The festival was headlined by Southern punk rockers, CAN!!CAN along with appearances in select cities by Electro Morocco, Describe, Y-Love, Diwon, Matthue Roth, Kosha Dillz, Homeboy Sandman, Stereo Sinai, Eytan, Six Point Star, & Girls in Trouble, which included CD Release Parties for Shemspeed artists, Eprhyme and Moshiach Oi!