| About |
I was born in the city of Chicago & lived in the south side until the age of about 7. My family moved to a city in Mexico called Zamora, Michoacan, where we resided for a year, then relocated to Guadalajara, Jalisco, where we lived for three years before returning back to Chicago for another year. After a year back in Chicago, our family moved to California, where I've lived since. I found an interest in music in the 8th grade after listening to radio stations that played house music, such as The Vibe (96.3 fm) & Powertools (105.9fm). I would wait by the radio just to record the mix shows & soon accumulated several shoeboxes full of tapes all labeled w/the date, mix show, & djs. I remember having a dual tape deck that I used to edit, or try to remix, songs that I liked to listen to. For instance, if I wanted to loop a part of a song on a tape, 2 or 4 beats, I had to record on one tape, pause it on beat, rewind the tape w/the track on it & play it again, release the pause button on the tape recording, & repeat the process until I had the number of loops I wanted, even for breakdowns. After my freshman year of high school (1993), I started to hang out more w/my cousin Sergio V., who had these old 1970s belt-drive Technics turntables that had a circular pitch control and an old Numark mixer (real pieces of sh!t, but back then it was a working dj set). Since this guy already had a few records in his possession, I gave mixing a shot & was instantly hooked. At that time several other friends began to collect hip-hop records and we formed a dj crew, we soon began spinning at a bunch of house parties. I started playing old school funk (George Clinton, ZAPP, Vaugn Mason, etc.), electric funk (Hashim, Egyptian Lover, Newcleus, Twilight 22, etc.), & house music(Ralphi Rosario, Dj Sneak, Joey Negro, Masters At Work, Armand Van Helden, Full Intention, etc) which was what I enjoyed the most. After high school I met some friends in the South Bay area (Long Beach, Wilmington, San Pedro, etc.), who had heard one of my mix tapes that another one of my cousins lent them. They asked me to join their party crew called Rebelic Ent. & I started djing at various nightclub events we organized. After getting a hold of some software programs I began to produce my own house tracks and got them released on Wicked Vinyl Records & Global Music Records, local indie labels. Around 1998, I became a member of FITM (Imperial Valley, CA / Mexicali, BC, Mexico) and began to design flyers and dj for their nightclub events in Mexicali, BC, Mexico. In December of 2000, on a trip to Chicago, I was asked to spin at a cousins basement party, but I only had a handful of records that I had purchased during my vacation trip. After a few records in to the set & some scratching, one of the djs at the basement party, that went by the moniker Leo G. Dinero (2xclusive), asked me if I wanted to keep spinning & use his vinyl, since I was on a roll. Soon after, I was invited to spin at various nightclub events for 2xclusive in the city of Chicago. In 2007, I signed with Dynamic Musik for the release of the "Systematic Upgrade" E.P....on a different subject, not everything in life is a party (wish it was)...I am currently pursuing a graduate degree at California State University, Long Beach MAIO (Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology)... |
