DJ Quest

Titled as the next big thing in the Estonian choir conducting scene in late 90s, Quest took a turn off the tracks that would have lead to a career in the world of classical music and started to buy vinyl to accompany his cassette and CD collection that had included everything from Mahler's symphonies to Nas to Michael Jackson to Nirvana to Billie Holiday up to that point. Being introduced to hip-hop at an early age when the whole scene in Estonia was almost non-existant and still totally below even the underground level, Quest fell in love with the gangsta rap that had taken over on the other side of the globe. He’d and soon fall in love again and this time with the sound of A Tribe Called Quest and the brilliant lyricsism of Nas - both being names he still ranks up among the greatest who've ever done it. In the end of 90s he teamed up with DJ-s Critikal and Paul Oja and started to spin a few records at some parties. The alliance of this trio bloomed and together they've since set many crucial milestones and landmarks in the Estonian hip-hop scene - in 2001 a website hiphop.ee was launched that quickly became the most popular (and most visited!) youth-orienated site on the whole Estonian internet. At the same time a party called hiphop.ee was launched in the now legendary club Spirit, which is considered as the first successful hip-hop club party series, paving the way into clubs for many other hiphop/rnb/nu-soul events in Estonia. Soon they would take control of managing most of the hip-hop related events in Tallinn, kick off the very first official Estonian MC Battle that has become the biggest annual hip-hop event of the year and start a weekly radio show called "The Program" on a commercial station EnergyFM (now moved to Estonian National Radio - Raadio2). Besides DJing, running the website and hosting a radio show, Quest is now focusing more on music production, on organizing parties and booking artists and also setting up a small independent record label Legendaarne Records with Estonian hip-hop group Toe Tag. Being an video game freak since the early days of mushroom kingdom, he' s also currently working a job he has dreamed about since he developed the ability to memorize dreams – writing video game reviews.