Joel Isaac Black was born in Texas to blues musician father, harmonica and swamp guitar were his lullabies. In some form, he continues to chase that certain guttural, soulful sound he was introduced to at an early age. Moving out West to L.A, working first as a rock ’n’ roll drummer and later a studio owner and producer, Joel also spent the better part of a decade sorting vinyl records at the world's largest independent record store (Amoeba Records) and has effectively absorbed a living archive of music, film, pop-culture, and Hollywood know how. Arriving in Berlin, re-baptised at the discotheque, he is still seeking those uplifting, funky moments to this day, albeit in maximal dance floor form as a DJ. The last years have found Joel as resident DJ at the infamous Kater Blau club in Berlin, a founding participant at the Garbicz Festival, and as a sought after artist and curator plying his trade as programmer, event organiser, and music consultant for hotels, clubs, festivals, and cultural events as far as Tbilisi, Georgia, Zermatt, Switzerland, and Brooklyn, New York.
Jeremy Black is a US-born music producer and composer living in Berlin. He was born into a musical family, starting piano lessons at the age of five and the drums soon after. After high-school mentoring by Jazz legend John Scofield, Jeremy went on to study Music Production at Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he founded the psych-pop group Apollo Sunshine, subsequently achieving quick notoriety in the early 2000s with the likes of The National and The Strokes. After critical response to their first two albums, and a pivotal TV placement in Breaking Bad, Jeremy sought out a larger audience for his film music production by opening Coyote Hearing Studio in Oakland, California a hub for a dynamic group of producers and musicians creating content for TV, Film, and commercial projects. Building studio collaborations and live performances with dozens of established artists over the years including members of Bon Iver and The National, Ezra Furman, Hauschka, Dave Harrington, FJAAK, Dr. Dog, White Denim, in addition, Jeremy has also helped produce PEOPLE Festival, an exciting and diverse movement bubbling up from the Berlin and international underground.