Omar Musa is a rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia born in 1984 and is of Malaysian-Australian heritage. He has lived in London and California and spends most of his time on the road, performing and writing. He has won numerous awards for poetry and music, including the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the British Council's Realise Your Dream award in 2007. While living in London in 2008, he recorded with MOBO award winning British rapper Akala. He has also run creative workshops in Aboriginal communities in remote Australian towns. His first hip-hop record, The Massive EP, recorded in Seattle, USA with veteran rock producer Geoff Stanfield, was released in 2009 to critical acclaim. He was a featured guest on the Triple J Hip Hop Show. He has also been a featured guest at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Singapore Writers Festival, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival and the Sydney Writers Festival, as well as touring in Indonesia, Malaysia, around Australia and as support for legendary poet/singer Gil Scott-Heron in Germany with BBC award winning saxophonist/rapper Soweto Kinch. He also published his first book of poetry, The Clocks, in 2009, worked as an actor for the Bell Shakespeare Company in Sydney and a judge for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. He released his debut full length album World Goes to Pieces in 2010. In 2011 he will be a guest at the Jaipur Literary Festival in India, the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka and the Beijing Writers Festival, as well as recording his follow up hip-hop album in the USA in February.

Joe Kim A.K.A. Mighty Joe was born and raised in the East Bay, California. Long the breeding ground for independent hip hop artists, the Bay Area's street smart, often socially conscious sensibilities are represented powerfully in his music. His complex, poetic rhymes are reminiscent of Talib Kweli and an era of hip-hop often thought to have been lost. What began as an immersion in music as a means of expression evolved into an avenue for education and critical commentary about the struggle of the disenfranchised. This interest in social empowerment led to him earning a degree in Psychology and Social Work at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2006, his song "What If" was featured on the soundtrack for the internationally released video game, College Hoops 2K7. The featured song brought him recognition from all over the U.S.A and in the UK. He has since recorded with diverse rock veteran Geoff Stanfield (Sun Kil Moon, Black Lab), Bay Area producers Germ and Redell, Australian slam poetry champion Omar Musa and Marc Griffin of pop-rock band 2am Club. Mighty Joe released his debut album "The Golden LP" in 2010 and went on to tour in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.