some friends of mine, or more precisely, their websites...

• Todd Thille, Synesthete is one of the most creative video artists out there today. And I mean out there...
• The Warheads - an original San Francisco music concoction of Ron K and JRS
• Ulas Özdemir - brilliant Alevi musician and musicologist
• Aytekin Atas - one of the most creative arrangers in Turkey
• Tricky Redkin is a funky psychedelic children's group whose album I mixed
• Cemali is a Turkish industrial band primarily based in the Bay Area
• Neoplast is Turkey's only true goth industrial darkwave band
• Eric Ederer is a man on a mission: ultimate esoteric knowledge about the cumbus...
• Myra Melford is an experimental jazz pianist and inspiring teacher of the works of Leroy Jenkins, Dave Douglas, and Henry Threadgill
• Jonathan Kessler and Beth Moscov do many things - raising goats, archery, and playing doumbek...
• Sinan Erdemsel is an Istanbul-based multi-instrumentalist who often teaches at various camps in California.
• Aharon Wheels Bohlsta is one of the craziest tabla players and drummers ever. And that's a good thing...
• Four Flea Circus is one of the stranger new groups to emerge from Cal. They were just in Japan last summer...
• John Carlos Perea is a fellow Berkeley student, grooving bassist, and powwow drummer
• Graham St. John is an anthropologist doing the most interesting and important academic research on electronic dance music right now.
• Lou Winant is working on drum 'n' bass for his PhD dissertation at U of Washington. He's also mysteriously into pirates.