About Me
I'm sick of reading dj bio's that are written in the third person so i guess i'll give you a bit of a break from the norm. When i was about 12 years old, i got my first pair of turntables, they weren't much, just something i could mix and match my mom and pops funk records on (the only hip hop record i owned then i bought myself, KRS-ONE - Step into the light, i know... i think i also bought some main source doubles and some of doc's ish...). I loved vinyl, and practiced scratching and mixing all the time after school, before bed, and soon enough i found myself teaching at the scratch dj academy when i was about 16 alongside greats like Jam Master Jay ( RIP) and Grand Wizard Theodore.Fast forward a bit, and you find me sitting on the floor of various booths lugging records for older dj's (yeah i made it before serato) and they would often times let me rock when they needed to relieve themselves, giving me sufficient club experience thanks to horrendous bathroom lines . A few years later while attending nyu i was djing in basically hole in the wall lower east side clubs for about 100 bucks a night and writing for mass appeal magazine, at which time a good friend of mine told Rich Kleinman about me and i ended up working for Mark Ronson and Allido Records, where i learned a lot and coincidently got incredibly good at fold-a-hoop basketball, embarrassed myself infront of Lily Allen, toured Wale around NYC, and helped Rhymefest defuse the alarm system at the allido studio to retrieve his favorite t-shirt...
In the next few months i djed for Team Facelift on MTV's artist of the week, and we were on tv about every five seconds (i even got sick of it after a while). That summer i found out wilmer valdarama could not rap, dj cassidy was the robin thicke of djing, dougie fresh really is the essence of hip hop, patron can do wonders to the body, yuhoo was am's drink of choice, and djing 3 hrs after waking up isn't such a good idea. Anyway, being so young observing crowds really helped me be versatile because i've seen how different generations of people react to different kinds of music. Now i do these small private parties and everyone ends up dancing even if the music was intended to be more "atmospheric," while at the same time i can play these bigger clubs and keep the kids dancing better than most fat man scoopers, and its mostly because people wanna hear good music, and it's your job as a dj to give it to them, and i'm not a dj thats gonna play a whole night of one genre or take so many left turns you end up where you started, your gonna get a more unique, consistent, high energy mix of music from me than that.
ps. to be honest djing now isn't the same as it used to be, but don't be bitter, be better.
VH1
Tom Ford
Blackbook Magazine
Lollapalooza Gift Suites and After Parties
Valentino
Marc Jacobs
Calvin Klein
Downy for Fashion
Tide for Fashion
CFDA Fashion Awards
Topman in london x new york
Uniqlo
Molly Sims
Russell Simmons
Tommy Hilfiger
All City Fashion Charity
Hennessy
French Connection
Spike Lee
Bad Boy Ent.
1Oak
Upstairs
A sha Levine
Beatrice Inn
Mondays @ Butter NY
Boost Mobile
Cantora Records
Cain
Christiana Vodka
Dune Nightclub Southhampton
DubFrequency
Diesel Store
Gold Bar
Harrah's Hotel and Casino
IMEEM
Lea Sophia Jewelry
Marquee
Milk Gallery
MTV
Naked Communications
Redbull
The Soho House
The Soho Grand
Tribeca Film Festival
Tenjune
Stella McCartney
Stereo
Vans
Veuve C quot
Warner Bros Records
