SNAFU Con
Sierra Nevada Anime Fans Unite!
SNAFU Con is an anime convention in the Reno/Sparks area of Nevada. The 2023 con was November 17 - 19, 2023. The 2024 con has not been announced yet.
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Darealwordsound Index
Elwin G. Williams, III is the creative force known as Darealwordsound. He is a trained bassist with more than 10 years of experience playing funk, rock, and hip-hop. From humble beginnings in the Bay Area of Fairfield/Vacaville, Wordsound has transitioned into a producer and rapper using live instruments and samples to create funky, dynamic, memorable beats. As a solo artist, Wordsound opened his own studio, BeatLayers Studio, in Vacaville, CA to produce and record local up and coming artists. As a true musician, his instrumental background also includes electric guitar, keyboard, and drums. Wordsound music highlights melodic beats with positive hip-hop lyrics.
In 2013, Wordsound competed in the Crush Con Spring Beat Battle and Fresh Out the Bay Cypher and won first place in both competitions. Wordsound also self-released his anticipated mixtape, Raw & Uncut, exclusively released on DatPiff and sponsored by Graphic Villain Clothing and The Slam Show. He wrote the anthem for Scattered Comics popular series "Shadow Hunters" and Collaborated with bay area producer Nick NT. to produce the theme song for TVEPN "The Slam Show". To raise awareness for Battens Disease, He wrote an anthem, "Run Coast2Coast" for Vacaville's Noah Coughlan's Coast2Coast cross-country awareness campaign run.
Currently, Wordsound expanded his portfolio to include a monthly self-produced UStream podcast called, #MYLANE, a live hip hop, rock and nerd talk broadcasted from BeatLayer Studios with co-hosts San Franscisco based artists Forcee the Kid and Erikah tha Kitty. Wordsound recently just released his 4th mixtape called "March Madness 2". He had his fans submit a theme that he had to compose to. This year his fans requested he do Mega Man and it has been a major success. He was able to link up with "Nerdcore" "Chip Hop" Legend Random aka Mega Ran for not only a feature on the mixtape, but also to perform the intro track "Mega Man" live at a Rockage sponsored event in honor of Fanime Con 2014 in San Jose, Ca.
Also on the resume, Wordsound toured with Hieroglyphics founder Del the Funky Homosapien and Bukue One as a road manager and live bassist from 2012-2013. Wordsound also toured as an artist coordinator for Del the Funky Homosapien during the 2012 Deltron 3030 Canadian Music Festival tour.
Wordsound is known for forging his own path as an independent hip-hop artist and is true to the art. He is uncompromising, and will always find new innovative ways to spread Darealwordsound music, but also the music of other independent artists. Learn more about Darealwordsound and see how he is The Artist to keep on your radar.
In 2013, Wordsound competed in the Crush Con Spring Beat Battle and Fresh Out the Bay Cypher and won first place in both competitions. Wordsound also self-released his anticipated mixtape, Raw & Uncut, exclusively released on DatPiff and sponsored by Graphic Villain Clothing and The Slam Show. He wrote the anthem for Scattered Comics popular series "Shadow Hunters" and Collaborated with bay area producer Nick NT. to produce the theme song for TVEPN "The Slam Show". To raise awareness for Battens Disease, He wrote an anthem, "Run Coast2Coast" for Vacaville's Noah Coughlan's Coast2Coast cross-country awareness campaign run.
Currently, Wordsound expanded his portfolio to include a monthly self-produced UStream podcast called, #MYLANE, a live hip hop, rock and nerd talk broadcasted from BeatLayer Studios with co-hosts San Franscisco based artists Forcee the Kid and Erikah tha Kitty. Wordsound recently just released his 4th mixtape called "March Madness 2". He had his fans submit a theme that he had to compose to. This year his fans requested he do Mega Man and it has been a major success. He was able to link up with "Nerdcore" "Chip Hop" Legend Random aka Mega Ran for not only a feature on the mixtape, but also to perform the intro track "Mega Man" live at a Rockage sponsored event in honor of Fanime Con 2014 in San Jose, Ca.
Also on the resume, Wordsound toured with Hieroglyphics founder Del the Funky Homosapien and Bukue One as a road manager and live bassist from 2012-2013. Wordsound also toured as an artist coordinator for Del the Funky Homosapien during the 2012 Deltron 3030 Canadian Music Festival tour.
Wordsound is known for forging his own path as an independent hip-hop artist and is true to the art. He is uncompromising, and will always find new innovative ways to spread Darealwordsound music, but also the music of other independent artists. Learn more about Darealwordsound and see how he is The Artist to keep on your radar.