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Blake Brandes (a.k.a. DJ Decryption) is a producer, composer, rapper, beatboxer, DJ, breakdancer, and Marshall Scholar. He is currently running Decrypt Productions, a music production and management company, and the Drumline, the production house for the music and marketing organization Team Business. As the founder of Rosetta Stone Records, an independent record label, Blake composes and promotes hip-hop, rock, pop, R&B, trip-hop, world music, and film scores for a globalized future. Past and current projects include collaborations with Ana Free, Jodie Manross, Baba Brinkman, Jeremiah, Suave, and many more.

Blake is also a PhD student in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent in the UK. His research interests include the commoditization of global youth culture, postcolonial political movements, the aesthetics of hip-hop, and postcolonial literature. Blake is committed to mediating the gap between the academy and the streets.