Welcome to the eclectic world of master mixer, cratedigger, musical continent-spanner SoCalled, AKA Josh Dolgin. Looking beyond the usual pantheon of samples for hip hop artists, Socalled explores the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the Yiddish vaudeville stages of 2nd Avenue for inspiration. Armed with his Akai MPC, heritage and love for genre-bending music, SoCalled is a yiddish rapping, accordion wielding, klezmer hip hop maestro. Heralded by jewish, Klezmer, and hip hop musicians alike, he builds Jewish music from the bottom-up.

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