ABOUT
Ital Selection HiFi was formed in San Francisco in 2003, but DJs Neta and
Ross Hogg cemented their bond long before that. The pair became fast friends
as up-and-coming DJs in the Bay Area Scene. Soon, however, the friendship
progressed, culminating in the couple's August, 2005 wedding. They had no
problems finding DJs for the event.

Neta and Ross play both together and solo all over the Bay Area and have played
out-of-town gigs in LA, New York, Austin, Montana, Portland, London and beyond.
Both drop a wide variety of hip-hop, R&B, classics, reggae, dancehall and
original remixes.

ROSS HOGG
Ross Hogg aka Duppy Ranks moved to San Francisco from Austin, TX in 1997. Shortly
thereafter, he bought turntables and hasn't looked back since. His love for vinyl
began on his sixth birthday when his sister gave him a Stevie Wonder "Sir Duke" 45
(editor's note: Be honest, Helen: that was a re-gift).
As a club DJ, he's always coming up with creative ways to keep the party jumpin'
with the music he loves: hip-hop, reggae, dancehall, classics and his own remixes.
As a mixtape DJ, he's garnered international attention for Slump & Grind Volumes I & II,
the Bay Area rap mixes he made with DJ B.Cause of 4OneFunk, and his reggae mixes. He's been featured in The Fader, URB, SF Weekly, The Bay Guardian and Entertainment Weekly. He is also a staff writer for XLR8R.

DJ NETA
DJ Neta is Bay Area born and raised. She kicked off her DJ career in 1997 when less than a handful of working women hip-hop DJs existed in the West Coast. Neta, which means "granddaughter" in Portuguese, broke into the scene first as a mobile house party DJ, hauling equipment and crates from spot to spot, serving up hip-hop, soul, funk, and reggae for a few bucks and a little local fame. By 2000, Lady Neta had already managed to land prime-time slots at clubs in Oakland and San Francisco. Since then she has been rocking spots from Berkeley to Billings, opening for artists such as Cee-Lo, Dead Prez, Medusa, Zion I, The Coup, and Goapele, sharing the bill with notorious DJ heavyweights, and performing as the lone headliner.

Neta is also a historian, a teacher, and a graduate student currently working on her dissertation. In recent years she has found herself digging through more library archives than record bins, yet her passion for music and the art of DJing remains as strong as ever.