ARAMAIC HIP-HOP:

The brains behind Modular Moods and many of the hottest parties in and around New York is DJ Handler. He collaborates with non-electronic musicians and creates textural fusions. His references include Ashkenazic cantorial music, traditional Yemenite melodies and hip-hop; he spins a mix of Baile Funk and Afro Beat blended with ’80s freestyle and hip-hop. MC Y-LOVE (born Yitz Jordan) is a black convert to the Bostener sect of Chassidus (the mystical branch of Orthodox Judaism). He creates seamless polyglot rhymes in English, Arabic, Yiddish and Hebrew. Y-Love is also reviving Aramaic, the ancient language of Jewish law.