DJ Center speaks through the vinyl plates. His love of music drives him to expose audiences to a wide range of sounds and has lead him to tour the globe, from the U.S. to Europe, Australia and New Zealand, while spearheading the move of the Los Angeles-based party, The Root Down, to New York City in 2005.
This Romanian-born, Brooklyn resident's uncanny skills lie in his ability to re-create the original contexts of the tracks he spins creating a natural atmosphere for music lovers. In a single evening he can transport thd crowd from future soul sessions in Brooklyn, out to Puerto Rico in 1976, over to Chicago, down to Brazil for batucada and back to New York in time for a '90s hip-hop party. Center guides audiences with scratches, cuts and blends, taking partygoers through the dips, twists and turns of each genre. Revelers find themselves passengers on a musical journey -- singing the songs they have always cherished, dancing to rhythms they have forgotten and broadening their horizons with songs as yet unheard.
Looking beyond the dance floor, Center is a lover of jazz. His early musical roots can be traced back to sessions with jazz musician / mentor Daniel Carter. Years later, Center released Feel What I'm Feelin' a double mix CD featuring an all-jazz mix that ranges from Ahmad Jamal to The Descendents of Mike and Phoebe, accompanied by a hip-hop soul disc, which features the likes of Pharoahe Monch and Sa-Ra Creative Partners. This double CD received international acclaim in Japan and England among other places, and inspired a new relationship with Giant Step - a long time staple on the global music scene.
