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DJ Gemma
DJ Gemma has been DJ-ing since the wee hours of the eighties with many projects and parties. From Mardi Gras to hosting Club Kooky which has been going strong for over 12 years, DJ Gemma’s aim is to showcase artists and performers from all over Australia and Club Kooky has released 13 cds so far featuring a selection of them.  She has played Womadelaide, the Sydney Biennale and for the past 4 years has presented Club Arak where you will hear arabic music stemming from north africa right across to turkey.  Club Arak celebrates Arabic culture in all it's rich diversity and contributes a positive voice  during these difficult and questionable times. DJ Gemma has also released a Club Arak cd with the collaboration of local artists and beyond.

Jembe
The jembe drum (pronounced JEM-bay) originated in West Africa where it became an integral part of the region's music and tradition. Later spreading around the world, it became an instrument used within numerous cultures to communicate amongst tribes, in ceremonies and in dance. Today the significance of this drum is as strong as it was centuries ago.

Named after the drum,  the Sydney-based series of club nights entitled JEMBE!, was inspired by international dance nights such as Nickodemus’ legendary ‘Turntables On The Hudson’ in New York and Russ Jones’ ‘Future World Funk’ in London. With its own resident DJ hosts James Locksmith and Mark Walton, along with guest DJ’s and musicians, Jembe showcases an urban Global Fusion - where the international sounds of reggae, ska, dub, electronica, hip-hop, soul, funk and jazz are explored on the dancefloor. No passport is required for this audio expedition - only your ears, a sense of rhythm and an open mind.

THE JEMBE CREW are:

MARK WALTON
One of Australia's most respected DJs, Mark Walton sets demonstrate a vast knowledge of music, whilst pushing the boundaries of Dance Music genres today. After being discovered in his hometown Brisbane by R.A.T. (Recreational Arts Team) in the late '80's - Mark moved to Sydney to pursue his career. Having established himself on the DJ circuit in the early ‘90s, he then moved to New York in the mid 90s to further his experience and to find inspiration. Returning to Oz, he became involved in mixing audio for stage productions and fashion shows, broadcasting and music production. In 2000 he was nominated for "Best DJ - People's Choice Award" and "Best DJ Award" at the inaugural Australian Dance Music Awards. Over the past five years, Mark has travelled between Sydney and Brisbane producing and touring with the Resin Dogs and Good Buddha. He continues to play on the Australian circuit with regular visits to London, Japan and his spiritual home - Hawaii, where he’s collaborated with local reggae bands.
JAMES LOCKSMITH
With over ten years of DJing experience, Sydney’s JamesLocksmith was inspired by the underground Dance Party movement that significantly emerged in the early nineties from the Rave scene. He began his own label/production company in late ’99, and has worked with local and international artists, like Mad Mats (Raw Fusion, Sweden), Mo'Horizons (Agogo/Stereo Deluxe, Germany), ?uestlove (The Roots, Philadelphia) and Nickodemus (Wonderwheel, New York) to name-drop a few. Devoted to supporting the sophisticated sounds of old discoveries and modern music, James’ sets are free of the boundaries that confine most DJ styles, and can include everything from Hip Hop to Funk, Soul, Jazz, Dub, Electro to House to Afro-Beat, Latin and other Global rhythms.
DJ ELROY
A name synonymous with electronic music for over a decade, from his humble beginnings at the age of 14, playing and promoting at Underground warehouse/rave parties and hosting radio shows to playing major festivals supporting the biggest names all over the country, while also remixing, writing and producing music for most major and independent labels. He’s mixed Latin/ funk classics and remixed jazz icons Paul Grabowski and Branford Marsalis. Elroy¹s scratching and flawless mixing sees him regularly playing at Sydney¹s best club¹s and events.
DJ FRENZIE
Frenzie cut his teeth DJing in Melbourne in the late ‘80s, having grown up being inspired by the early cut and paste sounds of hip hop music. In the mid 90s he spent 5 years in Brisbane, and in that time managed to DJ regularly at pretty much every decent venue around town. Nowadays, Frenzie has settled down in Sydney, where once again he has played at every decent inner city venue at one time or another. In 2001, he secured a management position at Sydney's most beloved club - The Globe. “I have always played hip-hop related music - Funk & Soul”, he says. “I’m a real big collector of original 60s and 70s breakbeats, rare grooves. I don’t like to be limited to one sound. Frenzie has played at all major music festivals, featured on Triple J’s 'Turn Up Your Radio' tour and in Sydney his weekly radio program Groove Therapy is essential listening.
DJ KATCH                                                                                                         
For the past 20 years Katch been digging in the crates, chopping and spinning vinyl from the Old school and 90s hip hop, Latin, jazz, funk and soul to the cut-and-paste hip-hop beats of today. A Producer & DJ from Resin Dogs and 2Dogs DJ team, spearheading the Phat tape hip-hop show on Brisbane’s 4ZZZ from ‘88 til ‘01. Creating Hydrofunk Records back in ’97, his DJ sets has taken him to dance floors and festivals both here and all across the globe - Brisbane to Brighton, through Europe to Los Angeles and New Zealand. Katch currently hosts the Hydrofunk Radio Show on Bay-FM Byron Bay and is DJing in  Brisbane’s best venue The Bamboo Room.
GARRIDO
Born in Chile, (Waldo Fabian) draws on his Latin roots, moulding them with soul and jazzy house flavas to crystalise his own sound. With an impressive versatility as a musician, producer and writer, he’s released three albums - a South American release Dejame Tocarte; the locally released Loco; and his latest work Chileansoul. Besides forays onto the dancefloor with his own music, Waldo also made his mark producing and remixing other Latin artists, a number of local urban/r&b artists and several film soundtracks. His diversity is further emphasised through his role as a founding member of Australia's pioneering world/jazz outfit The catholics. Waldo’s appetite for creating and performing music is never ending, from live appearances at Latin music festivals and the Big Day Out, to forming a new line-up to take the music from Chileansoul out on the road. With Waldo on bass laying down the grooves and DJ Mark Walton pushing out the beats, it promises to be one of the freshest presentations on the live circuit this year.

THE UBER LINGUA CREW are:

bP 
With cultural diversity his primary passion, Australian DJ/producer 'bP' (Brendan Palmer) has been representing the musically 'not so represented' for nearing two decades. He’s wandered the world gathering sounds and has performed in places as diverse as Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, London, Tijuana, Mexico City and Helsinki. In 2004 he launched Uber Lingua and his sonic activity has grown exponentially, playing hundreds of gigs and promoting culturally charged music in most capital cities of Australia. bP's sets traverse language, culture, genre, history and social scenes; deliberately defiant of mainstream music fashions, he presents an intersection of underground and outernational sounds that capture his imagination. Brendan also works as a producer at Melbourne radio station Triple R, and presents the weekly 'Dialectic' radio program on the web and Tasmania's Edge Radio.                                                                                                  
MASHY P
Since arriving from England in ’87, Mashy P has been active in Sydney's underground scene - playing, remixing and creating left-field beats from hip-hop and dub to electro and techno. A few years back he traveled to Qatar and remixed local radio broadcasts, putting together arabesque, electro, beats and drum 'n bass. Since then, he's begun producing global-influenced electronic music, maintained DJ residencies at several Sydney venues and played at Uber Lingua parties in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide.
AYSU FEVZIYE COGUR
Melbourne-based Australian/Turk vocalist-DJ Aysu has been performing since she was 13. She’s worked with her band Funk the Distance, and more recently with Aysu Soulz, Gypsy Crims and Zaray. She also appeared with French/Argentinean tango outfit The Gotan Project during their Australian tour in early ‘07. Aysu’s enchanting voice and inspiring lyrics embrace almost every musical genre. Her hip-hop vocalism is a natural progression as it draws from her passion for the Turkish language.
PRESYSE RIFRAF
RifRaf is Uber's Zimbabwean vocal talent. Performing in his native tongue of Shona as well as English, he's performed to crowds many times during his time living in Melbourne, including the Afrobeats Festival and more recently as part of the first ever Ya Lingo!, MC Cipher at BMW Edge and at Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival 2007. A Rhythmic assassin, RifRaf glides verbally over his DJing like an African sonic boxer.
sakamoiz
tri-lingual DJ and emerging wordsmith sakamoiz is a Post-Swiss pseudo-Mexican Tasmanian rogue whose nomadic
lifestyle benefits one of the planet's most sonically eclectic and linguistically diverse music collections. In July 2007 sakamoiz toured Mexico DJing as he went, and featuring as a guest on Tijuana public TV and cable, and on Radio Chanulpom, a Mayan community radio station. In 2004 sakamoiz presented Uber Lingua's 6 Tasmanian 'Lingo' parties in Hobart, touring mainland DJs from the north and also promoting local multicultural live performers and selectors. He also started the Dialectic Radio show on Edge Radio that has become Uber Lingua's central radio outlet. Since moving to Melbourne he co-promted the Rogue State weekly event and has also worked as a journalist at SBS Radio. In ‘04
POTATO MASTER
Post-Japanese Brisbane MC Potato Master sings, raps and raga MCs in Japanese, broken English and Gibberish, alongside creating abstract beats for himself and DJing what he describes as ‘funny music’… His style is deliberately out of control and is one of the most infectiously hilarious performances available in Australia, and very Japanese. In 2002 he joined 19-t records in Kyoto Japan, and toured Europe with them. In ’05 he moved to Australia and linked up with locals including equally zany hip-hop crew ‘Curse Ov Dialect’, Brisbane’s Anglo-Asian dub system ‘Taste of tea’, DJ Skyfish, Heavyweight Champions and the ‘Lao Mirador’ reggae radio show on Brisbane’s legendary 4ZZZ. He also became a central vocal entity in the Uber Lingua Sound System, literally bringing the house down with his solid beats, ultra-precise raps and hysterical ways.
STUART BUCHANAN
Hailing originally from Scotland, Stuart is the host of the international music show, ‘Fat Planet’ on Sydney's FBi Radio and Editor of the popular international music blog - fatplanet.com.au. A comrade of the international and multi-lingual music movement, Stuart has become deeply involved in Uber Lingua over the last couple of years. DJing baile funk, dancehall, afro hip-hop, reggaeton, Baltimore, kuduro, bhangra, balkan beats and much more at his Sydney residencies, and the ‘07 Laneway festival in Melbourne, he’s recently finished up a successful stint as General Manager of FBi Radio.
Wire MC,
a Gumbaynggirr descendant from Bowraville, Wire MC has been bringing his country rebel beats to the city streets and country towns of Australia for the past six years. As well as performing at venues and festivals around the country, including Homebake, WOMadeliade, the Sydney Opera House, Yabun and the recent Dreaming Festival, Wire MC travels to remote communities around Australia with fellow MC Morganics, conducting hip hop workshops for young Indigenous people. One of these led to the successful Wilcannia Mob "Down River" hit of 2002. Wire MC sees hip hop as the “new corroboree” for young Indigenous Australians, who are looking for a way to express themselves and their culture in a positive way.
VJ SDZEIT
Melbourne-based Dom Evans aka VJ Sdzeit (pronounced 'state') has been actively generating digital light for the past two years at Kent Street's 'Plug n Play', and at all of the bigger Uber Lingua events in Melbourne. He also worked with Barcelona-based cultural conjurer 'Filastine' when he toured Australia in '06, performing video work at both the Melbourne and Sydney shows. His work combines his illustrative art, sampled imagery, self made animations and other elements, often flowing between dark abstraction, urban psycho-geographics and scientific surrealism. His work with Uber Lingua is sensitive to the cultural intersections that are being explored and the collisions of ancient worlds with modern hi-tech. The results are stunning. Dom is currently in his final year studying animation and electronic music at RMIT.
PATAPHYSICS
Tamil and Singhalese speaking Australian/Sri Lankan Pataphysics is an MC, trumpet player, sonic landscaper and rhythmic sound shaper. He began rapping in Singhalese a few years ago as an excellent way to learn his mother tongue, performing as a solo artist and with Uber Lingua, Astro Flava and the Ubiquitous Dub Legitimizers. With a history that’s seen him perform alongside the likes of  Megabias, Elf Transporter, Combat Wombat, Illzilla, Nicky Bomba, TZU, Jeff Lang and the Agency Dub Collective, Pataphysics’ raps deal with everything from local and international politics, indigenous resistance and dreaming to eastern philosophy, existence and spirituality. His live shows draw deeply on elements of Sri Lankan culture.
MR FISH
Born on Reunion Island, where African music is part of everyday life, Mr Fish moved to France in the ‘80s. He was involved in the creation of the electronic Borelais festival in the south of France, then moved on to play and live in Sweden, Germany, Holland and finally London in ‘97, where he joined the groov’n’bass movement - incorporating African rhythms with hip-hop grooves and scratching into his sets. Moving to Melbourne in ’05, he’s become part the furniture at Uber Lingua events as resident Afrobeat specialist, mixing in the music of the French world and playing the Melbourne Afrobeats and Laneway Festivals.