Happy New Year everyone!
This is my 2022 Year End Mix, It's a collection of some of the tracks that lit the dance floor in 2022. This mix contains 40 Underground tracks from Deep House, Tech House and a hint of Latin vibes. Enjoy the ride.

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Dj Suave 2022 Year End Mix

Dj Suave Dj / Producer / Remixer / Soul City Events from Los Angels California U.S.A. 

Dj Suave is a 35 year dj veteran with no signs of slowing down. He started djing in 1985 and was heavily influenced by the mix masters on 1580 KDAY which included The World Class Wreckin Crew & Jamin Gemini.
 
He was introduced to House music in 1987 by a friend that had a mix tape by the Legendary New York Dj Larry Levan. Since that day Dj Suave fell in love with House music and has never looked back!!
 
Around 1989-91 that same friend introduced Suave to the Underground scene, and that’s were he saw Doc Martin and Suave’s dj education began. All through out the 90’s Dj Suave learned from the best. Doc Martin, Marques Wyatt, Dj Sneak, Mark Farina, Louie Vega, The Wicked Crew and Steve Loria. And later on it was Dj Harvey and Francois Kevorkian who where highly influential.
 
Hailing from West Covina, Dj Suave noticeably stood out from the rest of his dj peers through out the S.G.V. & I.E. Due to his Underground education, while all the other djs were playing “Hard House” Dj Suave stayed true to himself and kept on pushing Underground House music. And that caught the attention of Richard Vission. Dj Suave was asked to be a regular on Powertools, making him not the first dj to play underground Deep House, but he was the first regular dj on Powertools to play Deep Underground House Music. Suave was a regular on Powertools from 1994 – 2003.
 
In 2004 he was also the first to introduce the 3-turntable set up to the East side club scene. During his residency @ Qc’s for Lucky Lounge, Dj Suave build a House following in the patio, to such a point that it was almost like two different events going on.
 
From that following he was able to build what was to become one of the biggest House Music events in Los Angeles………SOUL CITY!!!!
 
In April 2006 Dj Suave did his first Soul City event @ Ambiente in Alhambra. And from there it went from Crazy Horse, Playhouse, Avalon, Luna, Sound & Exchange L.A.
 
Dj Suave is one of the most versatile djs around. From Latin, Funk, Afro-Beat, Disco, Latin Jazz, Bosa, D&B, Soul, Deep House, House, Tech & Techno. With over 16K records, Dj Suave still plays vinyl as much as he can. Producing the “Estereo” parties, which featured an all vinyl classic house night.
 
Francois Kevorkian, Dj Harvey & Doc Martin are Dj Suave’s teachers and have been the most influential in Dj Suave’s dj career.
 
The past 15 years Suave has played at Club/Raves all over L.A., San Diego, San Francisco, Vegas including Chicago, Miami, Denver, El Paso, Toronto, Baltimore and Mexico City! With serious production time being put in, Suave will be releasing numerous tracks on Move Rec. out of Spain.

Genre: House, Deep House, Tech House, Techno, Disco, Latin, Afro-Beat, Soul, Funk, Dub and all forms of Left Field & Rare Grooves

Joshua grew up in a small New England town during the 1980s, heavily influenced by the vibrant jam band scene that swept across the region, as well as the raw intensity of the hardcore metal club circuit of the early ’90s. This unique blend of musical subcultures inspired him to craft an audio-visual aesthetic of his own by the mid-’90s, collaborating with a tight-knit group of artists and DJs.

In 1998, Joshua moved to Chicago, and by 2004, he had relocated to Los Angeles, where he continues to produce, edit, engineer, and design across multiple media disciplines including audio, video, gameplay, and graphic design. His love for music runs deep—dating back to 1979 when he acquired his first vinyl record: the infamous KISS Dynasty, a pivotal influence that helped define his identity as both an artist and a human being.

In the wake of Warholian excess, amid the sampling and reshaping of pop culture through immersive soundscapes and technotopian visions, Joshua—under the name SOTRAB—emerged as an image-sound manipulator. Working with film, digital video, turntables, samplers, and live media, his creations blur boundaries. His films, live audio-visual performances, and installations have been featured in underground venues, galleries, and living rooms around the world. He regularly performs across the U.S. and internationally. Though originally from Massachusetts, he now lives and works in Los Angeles.

The origins of visual music can be traced to the 1890s, when George Thomas projected photographic slides alongside the song The Little Lost Child. While crude, this marked the birth of visual music. Over time, however, the medium became co-opted by commercial forces, evolving into the modern music video—ultimately synonymous with MTV and mass-market commodification.

My work seeks the lost chapters and forgotten epilogue of visual music. I reject the notion that music's visual counterpart must serve industry metrics. Instead, I pursue a form that exists independently—a visceral, intuitive embodiment of sound through image. Drawing on the legacy of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Nauman, and Vito Acconci, I explore their creeds within a video techno-wonderland.

Each of my films, performances, and online transmissions probes the assumptions that reduce visual music to mere commercial artifact. By manipulating pop iconography and repurposing tools of the music video industry, I confront the viewer's biases—forcing a reconsideration of what visual music can be. In a gallery or performance space, can an audience sever the neural tether to television? Can they resist reducing my work to just another music video?

I recreate what could be sold as a slick music video, yet demand it be experienced as personal expression and experimental art. The blurred lines between context and interpretation rise to the surface: can visual music be separated from its commercial shell? Or will every video artist forever inherit MTV’s shadow?

Each of my works is a self-contained experiment—part homage, part rebellion—advancing the legacy and evolution of visual music.

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DJ | Podcaster | Producer from Southern California, San Gabriel Valley. Mixing, scratching, talking music, and just having a good time in the process. House, Jungle, DnB, Hip Hop and Electronic music addict.