DJ
Thee-O of Los Angeles has always had a love for music.
When he was a child at the tender age of 5, he began taking
a portable record player with him at all times and entertained
classmates and friends with the soundtracks of "Grease"
and "Saturday Night Fever". At the age of 13, with
the help of his mother and aunt he obtained his first set of
turntables and a mixer. Throughout high school he DJed at school
dances and house parties where he honed his scratching skills.
After he graduated High School in 1991 he was about to embark
on training to be a opera singer but got sidetracked when he
went to his first rave in early 1992. After that fateful night,
he knew what he wanted to do with his life. It didn't take him
that long. With his first gig, "Under the Kandyground"
in March of 1992, he began building a reputation as one of L.A.'s
leading dance DJs. Probably best known for his talented mixing
and scratching skills and love for all things Electronic Music.
His following continues to grow in the city of L.A. and beyond,
with help from his numerous amount of mix tapes, CD's, MP3 Sets,
original music production and untiring efforts for the scene
he loves.
He
has been heralded as the most popular and hardworking DJ in
Los Angeles. And that hardwork is paying off. In 1993 he started
Biohazard Productions as collective of like minded DJ's that
now consists of a dozen other DJ's of high caliber. In 1995
he threw his first event aptly titled "Tomorrowland".
In 1996 he started writing for URB Magazine as a reviewer for
Trance music. In 1997 he became part of the Balance Record Pool
which is considered the best electronic dance pool in the country.
In 1998 he released his first commercially available mix CD,
"Skywalking" under the Base 9 label. In 1999 he was
voted as one of the top 20 DJ's in online poll conducted by
Raveworld.net. In the year 2000 he has spun at every major dance
event that happened in Los Angeles (including Audiotistic, Electric
Daisy Carnival, Jujubeats, Monster Massive and Nocturnal Wonderland).
In October of 2000 he and his studio-partner Chris Arnold opened
up Biohazard Studios, located inside the Til Dawn offices, right
in the heart of Hollywood. In 2001 he released his first CD
of original ambient and downtempo music under the name Reef
Project and also became the Los Angeles representative in a
new mixshow called Revolutions, on the satellite radio sevice
known as XM Radio. In 2002 he became the first LA talent to
join the ranks of Fate Management based in San Francisco. In
2003 he started his own show on XM Radio called Hazardous Radio.
In 2005, he built the second version of the Biohazard Studios
and created a digital label called Biohazard Digital that sells
tracks on Beatport, Audiojelly, Release Records as well as other
digital download stores. Currently, he is working in the studio
producing tracks not only to be released on his own label but
also working on tracks and remixes for other labels including
Knob Records, Queep Organic House, Hunya Munya Records, Bit
Records, South Records, Atsuo Records, Mining Vinyl, Reticent
Recordings and One Thirty Recordings just to name a few. Look
out for more productions to be dropping from the Biohazard Studios
on many labels coming to you soon both digitally and on vinyl.
Over
the past years he has spun next to Outkast, Orbital, Underworld,
BT, Judge Jules, The Orb, Paul Oakenfold, Moby, Aphex Twin,
808 State, Chemical Brothers, Mixmaster Morris, Blank &
Jones, 2 Bad Mice, Carl Craig, Rabbit in the Moon, Juno Reactor,
Dave Angel, Loop Guru, Westbam, X-Cabs, The Roots, Atomic Babies
and many notable others. His talents have landed him residencies
with Go Ventures, TeknoKlub, ROAM, Channel 36, 26c, and at Magic
Wednesdays in Hollywood and has taken him to 3 countries, 30
states and over 60 cities. Soon he will be traveling abroad
to even more locations to spread his sound.
A
Thee-O live set is something not to be missed. RaveOne.com put
it best when it stated that, "Thee-O's greatest strength
is that he is never weak. Some DJ's can tear off a great set
on one night, then crap out on another. Thee-O oftentimes approaches
greatness, but never falls into mediocrity" while The Rave
Section at About.com proclaims: "Thee-O continually proves
to be the LA techno/trance master."