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>Two-time Club World Award Winner and 2008 nominee for “America’s Best DJ,” ROONIE G. controls the DJ booth with laserlike precision and an unwavering focus. Where traditional DJs are locked into spinning solely audio, ROONIE delves into another dimension by mixing his own creative blend of audio and visual content – content that encompasses popular music videos, iconic film footage, custom graphics, and comedy shorts – delivering multi-sensory stimulation. THE TIME IS NOW The year 2008 is a big one for ROONIE. In high demand, he DJd three of the year’s biggest Super Bowl parties in Arizona, opening for DIDDY, WYCLEF JEAN and KID ROCK. A few weeks later, ROONIE DJd three celebrity-soaked events for the NBA All-Star Games in New Orleans. He’s performed alongside bold-faced names like TOMMY LEE, RON JEREMY, and Playboy centerfolds, CINDY MARGOLIS and KENDRA WILKINSON. Heavyweights like FLOYD MAYWEATHER and DONALD TRUMP have featured ROONIE as the DJ for their private bashes. In the press, ROONIE has been featured in media outlets including: CNN-TV, MTV2, CNet, Club World Magazine (formerly Club Systems International), DJ Times Magazine, Big Shot Magazine, Las Vegas Weekly, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic City Weekly…and many others. A DJ with 25 years of expertise and over 300 dance and hip-hop remixes under his belt, ROONIE never ceases to amaze. He started remixing for Ultimix in 1989 and produced the first Funkymix Medleys in 1990. Step into Jet at The Mirage in Las Vegas, Mixx at The Borgata in Atlantic City, Saddle Ranch at Universal’s City Walk in Los Angeles – or any of the other hotspots where ROONIE holds a residency – and patrons walk into a room where all of the senses are heightened. To behold ROONIE on any given night is to witness him deftly mashing-up audiovisual content hundreds of times during his two-hour set. Cameras and eyes are often fixated on him. For ROONIE, every split-second is spent cutting back-and-forth between tracks, mixing-in new video sources, creating custom-graphics on-the-fly and generally causing dancefloor mayhem. ROONIE’s live video-mixing is always a jaw-dropping spectacle. THE EARLY YEARS Born Roongsak Griffeth and of Thai descent, ROONIE exhibited a knack for performance from an early age. ROONIE’s first, professional DJ gig came at the tender age of 14. An Army brat, he grew-up in various countries and attended high school in Hawaii and Japan before his parents settled-down in Columbus, Georgia. He received an electrical engineering education in Macon, GA and DJd his own prom and homecoming celebrations. As a youth, ROONIE landed a gig DJing at a club in Macon (hometown of LITTLE RICHARD and OTIS REDDING) frequented by older African-American patrons. He’d drive hours with heavy crates of vinyl, bringing his own soundsystem. “I played all these black clubs…and I was playing all these old R&B tunes for an older crowd. It was great, because it educated me a lot on good rhythm and soul,” ROONIE recalls. He later got a gig DJing Columbus’ Chickasaw Club bar, where he held an impressive 10-year residency until 1998. It was during ROONIE’s residency at the Chickasaw that he began doing his own remixes, winning regional – and then national – DJ competitions, including winning First Place in the Nightclub & Bar Awards in 1996. That year, he “did this JIMI HENDRIX thing [with vinyl] where I was mixing [Hendrix’s] ‘Purple Haze,’ and I ducked-down and came back up with a big Afro wig and lit the turntables on fire,” ROONIE chuckles. His brazen showmanship was instantly appreciated, and the crowd ate it up. Nineteen-ninety-six was indeed a big year. Already having produced major remixes, including NAUGHTY BY NATURE’s “O.P.P.” (Tommy Boy) in 1991, 95 SOUTH’s “Whoot There It Is” (Ichi Ban) in 1993, and SOUTHSIDE BOIZ’s “Get Ready Here It Comes” (LaFace) in 1996, ROONIE’s inventive remixes earned attention from the major labels and he was commissioned to produce a club remix of HANSON’s pop hit, “MMMBop.” The money ROONIE earned was always reinvested into buying better and more expensive DJ equipment. Before long, ROONIE was investing money into his own nightclubs and promoting parties in his hometown. One such party was New Year’s Eve 2000, which was attended by over 3,000 people. By this point, promoting parties had become lucrative, although ROONIE asked himself what he really wanted to do. The answer was simple. “I have to please myself from an artist’s standpoint,” ROONIE decided. PIONEER PRO DJ Also in 1996, Pioneer Pro DJ’s KARL DETKEN caught a glimpse of ROONIE DJing at the Nightclub & Bar Show. Sensing a DJ with finely tuned skills, Pioneer approached ROONIE with the manufacturer’s earliest prototype of the CD turntable, the Pioneer CDJ-700. ROONIE demonstrated using three 700s, replaying the beats live using the cues. Witnessing the way ROONIE used the 700’s cues prompted Pioneer to develop the “Hot Cue” function on the CDJ-1000, today’s industry standard. In 2001, with the official release of the Pioneer CDJ-1000, ROONIE met with DETKEN and a few of Pioneer’s engineers, and the concept of the “world’s first DVD turntable” was born. Today, ROONIE is endorsed by PIONEER PRO DJ. In the booth, ROONIE uses two Pioneer DVJ-1000 DVD turntables, a Pioneer mixer, and he often incorporates computers and live cameras to enhance his audio/video show. LAS VEGAS, HERE I COME