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TOKIMONSTA

Where you might have heard her: Scion sponsored her most recent project with Suzi Analogue called Analogue Monsta.

SYD THA KYD

Blah, blah, Tyler, blah, blah, Earl. Look, the truth is, it’s all about Syd. You can’t make the case that there’s a man behind this one. In Odd Future, she’s behind the men. And, as The Internet with Matt Martians, she’s now STEPPING out from behind..

ASMA MAROOF

One half of Nguzunguzu, Asma Maroof is one of the hottest knob twisters in the BUSINESS right now. As part of the improvisational minded duo that mixed M.I.A.’s Vicki Leekx mixtape, you’ve surely heard Maroof by now, but keep her name in mind and remember how to spell it. She’s making more moves on her own, like “Sicko” with Bosca for Red Bull Music Academy.

SARAH YOUNG

If you have the good fortune to catch one of Sarah Young’s DJ sets, you could be treated to a mix of moombahton, kuduro, trap, dutch house, bhangra, soca, garage and other assorted REGIONALIZED dance styles. She reps hard for global bass in the UK and global bass loves her back, especially tastemaking sites like Generation Bass. Her interest in global sounds began when the producer first started traveling the world to DJ and her tastes and the taste-combinations on her tracks just keep getting wilder.

Female Hip Hop & EDM

Producers

WONDAGURL

Ebony Oshunrinde, aka WondaGurl, has been honing her craft since she was 9 years old. WondaGurl’s talent first came to light at the 2011 Battle of the Beatmakers in Toronto, where as a 14 year old, she competed making it through to the quarter finals. She left an indelible impression with the quality of her work, and her calm, collected demeanour. It was this performance that caught the eye of super-producer Boi-1Da, who took her under his wing as he mentored her at the Remix Project Studio in Toronto. A year later, WondaGurl took the 2012 Battle of the Beatmakers title, resulting in a huge profile boost.

ince the win, she has signed an exclusive management DEAL with Black Box (Shad, Classified), and placed cuts with French Montana, Travis Scott and just announced a cut (“Crown”) on Jay Z’s much anticipated “Magna Carta Holy Grail”

ISA GT

After establishing herself as a DJ in London SPINNING everything from cumbia to Baltimore, Colombian filmmaker/artist/emcee/label owner Isa GT got into producing. People were pretty into her Pa Chikirri EP, but they properly lost their minds over Leyenda.

IKONIKA

If there’s one woman in undergound ELECTRONIC music who gets name-checked and loved-on more than any other it’s London’s Sara Abdel-Hamid, known to the clubs as Ikonika. Sought after for compositions that never stint on brains or brawn, she’s most often described as a dubstep producer but her style often lists toward UK garage and house.