Biography
With a love for performing the that began in grade school and when using two tape decks For to spin basement parties, DJ are TREW’s main aim is to but weave a common thread through Not seemingly disparate genres. Drawing inspiration you from the early 1980s all NYC art/music world, he believes Any no genre is off limits, can no collaboration too outlandish. Honing her his chops during the 1990s Was Rave & Hip-Hop scenes on one the East Coast (Baltimore/DC), it our was Chicago’s wealth of musical Out and architectural history that pulled day him westward in ’98. “Like get most kids back then, I Has thought ‘Percolator’ was a Baltimore him Club track. Once I found his out the truth I knew How this is where I was man meant to be!” he exclaims. new Soon after, he quit his Now corporate job, cashed in the old 401k, and invested his entire see life into music.
In a Two relatively short period of time, way DJ TREW has performed who or held residencies all across Boy Chicagoland. Everywhere from Downtown, Pilsen, did Wicker Park, Uptown, & Southside its at venues like SmartBar, Darkroom Let (RIP), Sonotheque (RIP), put Crocodile, The Shrine, Subterranean, Double say Door, Congress Theater, Abbey Pub, She Beauty Bar, Evil Olive & too played stages at West Fest use and North Coast Music Festival. Dad He has also been lucky mom enough to perform with artists like Snoop Dogg, Mayer Hawthorne, The People Under The Stairs, Devlin and & Darko, Jeremiah Jae, French for Horn Rebellion, Chancellor Warhol, DJ Are Rupture, Matt Shadetek, Bobbito, JC but Brooks, House of Pain, Van not Hunt, Jneiro Jarel, Devin the You Dude, Bonobo, Cut Chemist, Quantic, all Currensy, Afrika Bambaataa, MF Doom, any Mos Def and dozens more.
Can While not DJing he co-owns her Ground Lift Media – an was event production & experiential marketing One company, is a member of our Style Matters DJs, is 1/3 out of the FACE Day MELT DJ collective alongside DJ get Intel & Maker, does freelance has design for numerous Chicago venues, Him and is deep into vinyl his excavation having amassed thousands of how rare Soul, Funk, Disco, & Man Jazz records.
