Artist profile · DJ
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“This music is the reason I’m here in this room and why you are my friends”
- What does your DJ name mean?
- Whenever you’re about to lay in bed after getting clean and cozy and you have nothing else to worry about and no one else to impress. The exact moment after you let gravity carry your body downward but before your head hits the pillow. The real you, safe and secure and comfortable whatever that means to you (shoutout Alex Kim for the “Top 5 Feelings” thought exercise)
- What is your relationship with the music that you play?
- This music is the reason I’m here in this room and why you are my friends
- Why and how did you pick up DJ’ing?
- Justice “Cross” Album 2007. I vividly remember being in middle school on a plane listening to that album on my iPod, drawing stick figure me and big speakers thinking “I would love to play songs like this live on a big stage” Then I found DVC my freshman year and found my people
- What is the best set you’ve ever seen?
- Top DJ Shows of all Time 1. Justice Live @ DOTD 2012 2. Edbanger XX Anniversary @ Printworks 2023 3. Machinedrum presents Vapor City @ Teragram Ballroom 2018 4. 2ManyDJs @ Rhonda (Los Globos) 2023 5. VTSS @ Coachella 2025 W2 6. Doss @ LightsDownLow 2021 7. Dog Blood @ Portola 2026 8. DJ Stingray @ LightsDownLow 2018 9. Jamie XX @ Coachella I can’t remember the year
- Where do you find new music?
- Listen to mixes from good DJs → Go down rabbit holes Top 100 Albums of All Time lists Social Media Osmosis / Hanging out with people with good taste Shout out VH1 I Heart the Decades
- What is an underrated genre in the current electronic music landscape?
- Moombaton (is that just afrobeat now???) 2010s Soundcloud Era R&B Beats
- Looks like you’ve been to some shows in London in the past few years. How would you say the scene is over there in comparison to that of the states?
- London felt more pretentious Americans are dumb and dress worse in general. I personally think LA is a great scene. London has historical clubs and way bigger venue spaces the scope is hard to describe but Fabric and Printworks were iconic experiences. Maybe I just didn’t meet the right locals.
- What are you planning to play for us at Twenty:Four?
- Set 1: They told me “go hard” Set 2: My homage to my heroes