Our good friend Christalyn Concha aka Chrystalline will be back for her second HEMF appearance. Chrystalline injects her Pueblo heritage with heaps of love into a funky mix of soulful house music that touches the heart and soul of dance floor audiences from her native New Mexico all the way to Hawaii.

Chrystalline is a vocal advocate of women in the music industry and founded the female DJ collective LadyDjs.com to support and empower a growing female DJ scene.

Big Island Love is excited to announce the return of the Muthafunka, Nik Sliverski the nightlife chameleon is flying in from Tokyo with a bag full of musical treats straight from the FunkaBunka. Nik has been an essential part of HEMF since the very first one and we're giddy that he's taking time out of his busy schedule to play with us in Hawaii. Yey!

Jeshua Scheumack aka Friction rocks dance floors from the Burningman dessert to the San Francisco LoveFest. In his early years he was a touring live musician sharing bills with Cake and the Def Tones.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden while his parents were on tour, he soon merged into the music world and today crafts one of the finest sounds in the San Francisco club and underground scene. We are stoked to have him back for his second HEMF participation.

One of Hawaii's leading club DJs, Adam Deutsch aka Rhythm Star keeps pushing the musical envelope to create meaningful mystical experiences that take us beyond the here and now. Adam knows how to send the dance floor on a beautiful journey with his skillful blend of bassline breaks, deep progressive house and tribal psychedelica.

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DJ Layla from Portland Oregon, mesmerizes dance floors with her sultry middle eastern worldtronica, silky smooth tribal rhythms and vibrant dance floor energy that touches the soul and body.
She started the project Sister PDX, where women could spin records, share music, connect and learn. The gatherings ultimately spawned the Portland branch of the San Francisco collective, Sister SF.

Samantha Sassmouth's early classical training and live performances in string quartets and punk bands prepared her well for her career in techno music. Sam's love for minimal tech-house takes her to Detroit, Miami, Ibiza, Chile and the Mutek festival. Her collaborations with techno visionary Frankie Vega are adding depth to her sound and her wicked bass lines.

Mycho Cocao always produced music with whatever he could get his hands on. Recording into boom boxes, prototype drum machines and the best Fischer-Price had to offer in the way of plastic turntables and cassette recorders.
Mycho's sound comes from the mind, booty, and soul. It's liberally flavored with dubstep, glitch hop, Latin house, and tribal breakbeats, with a little bit o’ swing.
He co-founded the San Francisco Fringe Arts and Music Collective producing events incorporating live music, electronica and multimedia art within the SF underground scene.

We love Portland visionary promoter and video guy extrordinaire Jeffe. His heart, his soul, his funky breaks. A man of integrity and compassion who's not afraid to share his vision with the world. He is the founder of the Shasta Gatherings. His mission is to lift our personal and collective vibrations through music, dance & community.

Luckey Brown calls the Volcano area his home. Here he spins his chunky funk house records under the beautiful geodesic dome formerly occupied by HEMF allumni Jeneye. This is his second HEMF participation and we're happy to hear what he's been working on.a

Portland based multi-instrumentalist Rena Jones crafts a blend of ethno, IDM, breakbeat, and downtempo featuring her unique style of live strings and percussion. She's a classically trained violinest/cellist who studied sound engineering at Ex’pression Center for New Media in Emeryville and is considered one of the leading wahine in audio engineering today. She worked at WaveGroup Sound and Digidesign, where she helped develop the ProTools sound application.

Interview and recent work

Jonah Gabriel Lipsky aka J.Wail from Phoenix AZ got into music at an early age. He now plays guitar synth, sequencer, loop pedal and a plethora of instruments to create his unique live organic spacefunk. He's been touring to promote his new album and is excited to celebrate his birthday with his appearance at HEMF5.

The newest addition to the Big Island electronic music scene Phokiss is the collaboration of Earth Angel Anne and Sky Makai from Puna. They are active in the developement of Ecstatic Dance at Kalani Honua and play beautiful arrangements at Electric Lounge and Planet Zulu.