Lili del Sol 'La Bruja' - Ell

Ell is an American record producer, radio host, engineer, and DJ who is most well known for his time spent playing in the United States and Europe for concerts and tours with the likes of Afroman, ASAP Rocky, Big K.R.I.T., Curren$y, Danny Brown, J. Cole, Joey Bada$$, Juicy J, KRS-One, Logic, Slum Village, Talib Kweli, Twista, Wale, amongst others.

Ell co-hosts the longest running (“88”) North American Hip-Hop radio show “Prop Shop” on WCBN-FM, and can be heard on stations including Big City 101.3-FM Boston, WMBR Cambridge, MA, and KSHI, NM. He has been a featured performer at events hosted by MTV, Vans, Red Bull, United States Democratic Party, United States Armed Forces, and festivals including Fallas (Spain), Imaginarium (Spain), Warped Tour (U.S.), alongside U.S. tours with Big Sean’s Finally Famous, Machine Gun Kelly/ EST19XX, and Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang.

When Ell is not behind the turntables, he can be found mixing FOH or monitors for tours such as 50 Cent‘s ‘The Final Lap Tour‘ with Busta Rhymes, or for artists including Cam’ron, Cordae, Do or Die, Dreamville, EarthGang, J.I.D., Jeremih, Twista, and others. Currently, he tours as a monitor engineer for Jeremih.

Ell is currently faculty at the Dark Horse Institute, Michigan Technological University, and the Neutral Zone where he teaches sound mixing, DJing, and audio engineering. He has presented Music Industry, DJing, Production, and Audio Techniques classes, workshops, and lectures at universities including Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Michigan.

With the launch of IAmEll.com, Ell offers mixing and mastering to support artist’s creativity while releasing commercial quality records for physical and digital distribution.

Credits:

TV, Film, and Media – BBC, Blue Planet, Cadence13, Crooked Media, ESPN, Guardian Life Insurance of America, HBO, Michigan Medicine, New England Patriots, Problem Areas, and more.

Studio – Cam Meekins, George Massenburg, Jamey Haddad, Lauren Spencer-Smith, Patrice Rushen, Sammy Adams, Young Money.

Live sound/ concert mixer – 50 Cent, Boogie T, Brand Nubian, Cam’ron, Chris Webby, Cordae, Do or Die, Dreamville, Dave Stone, EarthGang, Futuristic, Ganja White Night, Ghostly International, Guapdad 4000, J.I.D., Jeremih, Matthew Dear, Medasin, R.A. the Rugged Man, Rusko, Reason, Shigeto, Shawnna, Slum Village, Snails, Twista.

Lili del Sol ‘La Bruja’

This music video features Lili del Sol and her band playing “La Bruja”, a traditional son jarocho from Veracruz, Mexico, with arrangements typical of Joropo, a traditional music genre from Colombia and Venezuela. The combination of instruments such as the harp, vihuela, capachos, cajón and electric bass results in a contemporary sound with which the band revisits traditional genres from their lands.

Lili-del-Sol

“LA BRUJA”

Vocals – Lili del Sol

Harp – César Secundino Méndez

Peruvian Cajón – Gilbert Mansour

Capachos – Sebastián Laverde

Vihuela – Sergio del Castillo

Electric Bass – Andrés Mira Olarte

Music Producer – Pablo Munguía

Recording and Mixing – George Massenburg

Assistant Engineers – Aria Nanji, Ell, Yu Lu, Ronald Ayala, Martin Lo, Satyam Sangwan, Nitin Muralikrishna, Samuel Zhang, Chris Marsanico, Henry Rater, Matt McIntyre, Nanci Baker, Erik Lindberg

Executive Producer – Amanda Tornel

Video Shoot Director – Alberto Hidalgo

Director of Photography – Hernán Pérez

Make Up Artist – Workshop Experience, Make Up School

Video Produced by – Studio Harley