Prior to COVID-19 & lockdown, CDubz lost the spark of joy that DJing for so many years provided.  In November of 2019, I took a break. My residencies had ceased from happening; my passion and drive were at all time lows and the identity club DJ had all but retired. When mentioning this to my mother, she lovingly & laughingly said "is the club going to have a retirement party for you"? ROTFL. So from November 2019 to July 2021 I didn't mix two tracks together. Almost 2 years.  I walked away from music/mixing not knowing a global lock-down was 4 months away. Needless to say during covid lock-down I couldn't get enough new music, new tracks, new mixes, fresh reedits, remixes, I realized it was an compulsion due to the lack of creatively engaging music, I might have left music, djing, etc... but music never walked away from me. 

A house jock of 20 years, CDubz honed his skills and love of house music in the Nations Capitol. He grew up on funk, rock, and soul influences of his mother, became a talented trained dancer and fell in love with dance music at a young age. Wigglesbee has rubbed shoulders with some of the most sought after DJs/Producers in the biz. He began behind the scenes as a street promoter for DC production company M3 (Music Makes Magic) and ClubFIVE. He worked for several years at Travel2000 - a travel agency exclusively catering to club/rave/festival talent. Some of his clients were well known names like A-Trak, Keoki, Frankie Bones, Adam X, Heather Heart, Tommie Sunshine, DJ Hurricane (Bestie Boys DJ), Reid Speed, Ice-T, and more.. CDubz DJ credentials around the DC/Baltimore region have had him in the most trendy clubs, Green Lantern,  Number Nine (formally HALO), The Edge, Tracks2000, Nation (Capitol Ballroom), The DC Eagle, Eye Club, Dirty Bar, Nellies, The Brexton, Town Discotechque, Cobalt, Jimmy Valentines Lonely Hearts Club, Little Miss Whiskeys, Rock and Roll Hotel, Sticky Rice DC,  1227 (Bmore), Central Station Baltimore, Club Hippo Baltimore, City(Cafe) Bmore, The Get Down Bmore, The Baltimore Eagle, Red Maple Baltimore. And tons of small dive bars, fashion shows, private gigs, weddings, HRC Gala, Birthdays. Previous DJ Crew affiliations have included Fusion-VA, Chocolate Music DC, Friends Collective, and  One Love Massive, CODE/Hummer. Quadrant Sound is a new project. Small DC based artists collective. 5-10 artists across the District's 4 quadrants.

You know Dirtybird for dropping basslines and creating smiles on the dance floor since January 2005.

The fun family vibe of the Dirtybird label can be traced back to a free event started in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. This new kind of house music went against the smooth vocal house that was popular at the time and derived its influences mostly from hip-hop, drum n bass, and American funk. The free outdoor BBQ party was very rough around the edges but eventually became legendary amongst the people of San Francisco. This event was also a very influential factor in the decision by Claude VonStroke to start the record label in 2005.

Today, Dirtybird has offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has expanded into events and tour production. As it grows, the brand continues to expand beyond music into merchandise, licensing and artist management. In 2015, Dirtybird launched the inaugural Dirtybird Campout festival, which has been dubbed “Summer Camp For Adults”, and Dirtybird has been recognized from their achievements by being awarded "Underground Label of the Year" at the International Dance Music Awards, “Label of the Decade” by Mixmag, “Best North American Label” by DJ Mag, and Billboard’s "Top 5 Independent Dance Labels".

Groovy house music vibes.
I want to open at your next party!

"Starry Eyed Surprise" w/ Mr. Belt & Wezol
https://lnk.to/StarEye

Bookings: djchristauff@gmail.com

Christauff began professionally DJing in 2004. It was all vinyl then, now it's all CDs, laptops and controllers. Times change, DJing evolves. Over the years he's played techno, trance, progressive house, elecro house, deep house and tech house. For the last few years it's been mainly tech house, deep house and bass music.

He ran multiple weekly dance parties for several years in Washington, DC with his crew District Ignition, playing opening sets for Paul van Dyk, BT, Chris Lake, Seb Fontaine, Menno de Jong, Jerome Isma-Ae, Uberzone, Charles Feelgood, Edgar V, Steve Duda (BSOD), Deepchild, and many others.

Christauff loves everything about dance music. He once ran a music conference, worked a couple music venues, and has held hundreds of dance parties and underground warehouse gigs over the years. He takes this "hobby" more than a little seriously--though he keeps his day job. 

He thinks he has a career and a life outside of this. 

Maybe.

The lines are getting blurrier.

Bayt & Swytch are DJs Eikkon and Plateau. Combining their nearly 30 years total of DJing and performing they have an arsenal of original tracks, mashups, and remixes that will light up dance floors across the US.

Nicholas Bortz. Half of the Savage Patch.

DC House Grooves was established in 2004 as the online presence for Washington, DC based DJ Andy Grant. Over time, the site’s mission has expanded to promoting Washington, DC’s many talented DJs through the Body Werk events series and the Meet the Locals Podcast, and providing trusted information and opinion on what’s going on in DC’s underground electronic music scene. Primarily focused on deep, underground house music, yet inviting each DJ to showcase their own style, DC House Grooves strives to provide the best mixes from DC based DJs, and the best information about what’s going on each weekend in the nation’s capital.

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