(Editor's note: Our continuing series that looks at Oakland Local's picks for people/organizations to watch in 2011. See all profiles in this series.)

In the club, in the streets, in corporate towers … the steady burn of corruption eats our world. Flames of shame and disrespect climb higher.

But wait, what’s that? Bursting through cerebral dams – dj fflood’s sound saturates, washing dancing masses clean of preconceived limits. His musical potions are healing waves of reverb and swirling pools of quick and tender tempo.

Asking an Interplay artist to describe his or her work is similar to asking a Buddhist to describe the great complexities of his or her religion - it is not an easily articulated concept.

A huge controversy has run through the entire history of the institutional church regarding what kind of music is acceptable. Today, some object to certain kinds of Contemporary Christian Music as sounding too “secular” for church, yet others support it. The controversy has sent mixed messages to the world.

This year, Easter falls on the same day as the 42nd anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination. It's a day of resurrection for the folks at First Christian Church. And it's a day of remembrance.

In Oakland, resurrection and loss, resurrection and remembrance, go hand in hand.