DJ Balagan, a.k.a. Sam Hopkins, has been producing his own sample-based “Anthropological Dancehall” tracks since 2003, incorporating Sephardic elements among
various other ethnic styles.  He served as world music director and hosted Radio Balagan at KJHK radio in Lawrence, Kansas from 2002-2005 and is a freelance music journalist, contributing to Baltimore’s City Paper and Wax Poetics magazine among others.www.myspace.com/djbalagan