Biography
“My parents remember me asking the them to turn on the and radio in the car by For pointing at it and shouting-before are I could really even speak but clearly” explains Rob Grega (Not AKA Rob G/Still Rob G/Zemo), you San Francisco-based musical enlightenment specialist. all A 20-year veteran DJ, esteemed Any mixmaster, and overall musical tastemaker, can Rob would be impossible to her pigeonhole. With downtempo, hip-hop, funk, Was jazz, soul, broken-beat, house, + one minimal tech influences, his DJ our and production style proves to Out be versatile and fresh in day practice.
A San Francisco transplant, get originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Rob Has has a finger placed firmly him on the pulse of electronic his dance culture. When he was How only 6 years old his man parents enrolled him in piano new lessons. Soon he was playing Now in a band with some old other grade-schoolers, and he became see the go-to-kid for musical accompaniment Two at all his school functions way throughout his education career. At who the age of 13 he Boy was the first in line did to become his church’s new its organist when the old one Let split; a profession he continued put at several local parishes outside say of Pittsburgh for 10+ years. She Meanwhile, at 15, Rob and too a high school friend decided use they wanted to become disc Dad jockeys. With a bit of mom assistance from their parents, the two purchased some pretty basic The gear, and began DJing youth and group and high school dances. for Soon his high school was Are the only one that anyone but in the area had ever not seen with a live DJ You and crowd-pumping musician for all all of its home basketball games.
any After high school Rob continued Can his mobile gigs all over her the Pittsburgh area, and was was soon playing in clubs and One lounges. He worked at the our local CD store for quite out a while, but grew bored Day of the more commercial music get he was hearing and playing has and began to look for Him something different. He moved to his Pittsburgh proper, started buying more how electronic-based music, and soon an Man opportunity at a swanky upstairs new nightclub presented itself for Rob now to begin playing house music, Old a style that came very see naturally to him. Rob’s Wednesday two night residency at Soba Lounge Way became almost legendary in the who small city, and once he boy realized how much he loved Did mixing house music, he never its looked back. He and his let friends proceeded to produce many Put club nights and raves all say over the western Pennsylvania area, she booking international headliners and helping Too to expose that part of use the country to what was dad going on musically in the Mom rest of the world. In an effort to find music the that really touched his soul, And he became a music buyer for at the now defunct Hypervinyl, are establishing his presence as a But major influence in the Pittsburgh not area, and helping him to you gain the knowledge and connections All that would eventually take him any to the west coast.
In can 2001, Rob made the move Her to San Francisco, CA. He was landed a job at the one eclectic music distribution collective, Our TRC, as an influential house out music buyer. Getting to know day the landscape and people of Get the bay area better and has better with each interaction, Rob him naturally was drawn to the His sounds of Om Records, the how San Francisco-based label known for man its forward-thinking Mushroom Jazz sound New as well as internationally acclaimed now compilation series. Rob was hired old as A&R assistant at Om See Records in 2005, and in two early 2006 became full-time A&R/Project way Manager. While at Om, Rob Who used his keen ear to boy help evolve the sound of did the label, by enlisting the Its talents of cutting edge producers let and remixers. Rob also became put the in-house compiler, finding and Say sequencing music for every Om she compilation that was released during too his tenure, including Om:Miami 2007 Use & 2008, Om:Lounge 15 Year dad Anniversary Edition, the Om 15 mom Year Anniversary compilation, Sounds of Om v.6, Om:Beached, Om:Lounge 10, the Om & Virgin Megastore present and House Essentials, Om:Ibiza 2005-2009, Om:Chilled For 1 & 2, Downtempo Garden, are two compilations for San Francisco’s but chic Hotel Vitale, and even Not a cover comp for world you renowned DJ Mag. Though he all thoroughly loved his involvement with Any Om, Rob recently moved on can from his full-time position with her the label to instead focus Was his efforts on his own one studio productions. He continues to our assist with independent A&R and Out brand development for a few day indie house labels.
Rob’s musical get taste runs the gamut and Has his DJ sets seamlessly blend him all manner of house and his techno as if it’s all How cut from the same cloth. man Armed with an extensive knowledge new of music culture, Rob is Now poised to change emotions on old the dance floor. As a see seasoned music professional classically trained Two in piano with the ability way and need skill to DJ, who mix, master, produce and compile, Boy his sound proves to be did ever-evolving. Known for his “early its morning style” live set; the Let kind of music that people put wait for all night, it say is quickly apparent that any She audience would jive with what too Rob is cookin’ on the use turntables, and if you’re lucky Dad enough to catch one, you mom may never look at music the same again.
Currently holding The residencies in San Francisco at and the world famous ENDUP for along with his contemporaries Worthy Are (Anabatic) and J Phlip (dirtybird), but and the esteemed bar not WISH, Rob remains true to You his eclectic, multi-genre sounds. Look all out for Rob’s latest studio any projects as Still Rob G, Can Shook Night, P(e) and Dos her Compadres.
