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DJ Zeph has been been dj'ing, producing
and remixing music since he was 14
yrs old. He was originally exposed to music via breakdancing,
and was the
first to do the cabbage patch at his jr. high school. He
was a local
favorite in his hometown Santa Cruz as a party and battle
DJ, and under the
wing of Kutmasta Kurt, developed a sound fusing hip hop
and almost every
other form of music. He can recall doing mash-ups as early
as 1988.
After acquiring a degree in broadcasting
and audio production from SF State,
the release "Imaginarium" on Ocean Floor records for rapper
L*roneous was
Zeph's first full length production. Considered by many
a golden era hip hop
classic, this record has since been rereleased 5 times.
DJ Zeph's debut self
titled release was a #1 cmj album in 2002. his follow up
release, Sunset
Scavenger, made headlines due to a legal dispute with the
sf garbage co.,
and was one of the top 10 albums of the year in xlr8r magazine.
Both
releases available on Wide Hive Records. His next full
length release "Rise
Up" by Zeph & Azeem , released on the Om Records imprint
Om: HIp Hop,
garnished the single "Play the Drum" that was a song of
the year on
Australia's JJJ radio, and was featured in the HBO hit
series Entourage.
His in demand mixtapes are where the musical diversity
of his past shines,
fusing such genres as rock, electro, jazz, original funk
breaks, house,
reggae and latin music with hip hop.
DJ Zeph won SF Weekly's DJ/Turntablist
of the year in 2002, as well as was
in the Urb magazine next 100. After the chart success of
his debut, Zeph was
asked to be a panelist alongside Gangstarr's Guru
and Evile D at the CMJ
convention. His productions can also be heard on
the Adidas website, the
Palm Pictures movie Scratch, MTV, MTV2, MTVU, ESPN's
NBA 2k5 and Xbox
Stoked video games, and he can also be seen spinning occasionally
at the
Golden State Warriors basketball games.
He has Toured to most states in
the US, as well as Canada, Mexico, Barbados,
Australia, and Japan. He has dj'ed for Azeem, Gift of Gab,
Lateef the Truth
Speaker (Mighty Underdogs), Lyrics Born, Aceyalone, and
more. He has been
on tour bills with DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, Talib Kweli,
and Souls of
Mischief, and more. He has done Remixes for Z trip, Lateef,
Lyrics Born,
People under the Stairs, J-Boogie, Collosus, Capital A,
Variable Unit,
members of Parliament Funkadelic, and more.
DJ Zeph is currently involved in
several projects including "Sound
Proof"
the new album with Azeem, the project Skins and Needles
with drummer Max
MacVeety of Crown City Rockers, a latin hip hop mixtape "Batidas
Latinas" on
UK record label Breakin Bread, and several original releases
with his DJ
collective the Oakland Faders.
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