"Evolution happens every day,
Don't fear the change,
Just pave the way."

Sean Hooser (CB4) got his first exposure to an underground music scene at 14 playing drums 

in punk/hardcore bands on the easy coast. 95-00 Southern NH was becoming a hot-spot for 

house and breaks and crazy warehouse parties. Being a drummer the natural progression for a 

percussionist seemed to be to start playing records.

With plenty of parties and clubs to feed off of he started absorbing all the various styles 

of electronic music and really started to get into a groove with the mutant disco sounds 

being pushed by the likes of Dj Midas, MO7S, Leap, Onnasis and many others. Wanting to 

become more proactive in the music community, CB4 and a friend started a music magazine that 

focused on electronic music related material around the New England area. "Smitten" was 

born. This magazine ran for roughly a year and ceased when his partner moved to Florida. 

This particular endeavor gave him a real insight into the inner workings of the electronic 

music industry and really helped focus his efforts and broaden the horizons.

In early "02" he moved to Orlando, FL. This is where he started to really make headway as an 

artist being able to get comfortable in larger venues without being subjected to a jury of 

his peers. Opening on a regular basis for DJs from from Orlando based labels with strong 

ties worldwide allowed him to make a name for himself quickly within Central Florida and 

beyond as well his first radio appearances on 96.9 Foundation Radio with seminal Orlando 

producers The Invisible Men and Juan Sanchez. With musical leanings ranging from dark 

progressive to deep tech, his first few years in Florida combined with the knowledge and the 

lessons of his mentors back home in Manchester helped shape and inspire his sound into what 

it is today, a streamlined, sophisticated and robust mix of techno, tribal bass and funk.

Over the course of the next decade CB4 teamed up with Vizion 1 Entertainment, an Orlando 

based promotions group, that eventually came to be known as the Premier CFL based event 

promotions group. Vizion 1 was in instrumental part of the puzzle for CB4, placing him on 

some of the largest festival bills in the United States, like the Annual Ultra Music 

Festival, Magical Maydaze, Global Gathering, and The Bang! Music Fest. These huge events 

helped as far as exposure to a global audience as well as experience with some of the top 

names in the dance music industry.

Now fast foward to 2009 and into the present when the final but most important pieces of the 

puzzle are now starting to come together. A random encounter with one of the Champions of 

the early Orlando dance music scene, DJ D-Extreme, and a chance meeting with Electronic 

Dance Music 's essential golden boy, Superstar DJ Keoki. Both of these encounters have made 

it possible for CB4 to make the jump from being a merely a disc jockey into an actual 

artist. As well being mentors professionally they also have helped him grow as a person. 

Without the guidance of these two as well as DJ Midas, this puzzle would never have gotten 

this close to done.

 
"I hope you guys enjoy the new mix, I had a lot of fun putting this one together and stay 

tuned for more upcoming mixes from myself, and finally have some plans coming for my 

original production stuff as CB4 as well as stuff from Coin Laundry. An intense side project 

with my production partner, Centrifusion. 

From these three wise men, my aforementioned sensei's, this ultimately is what I have 

contemplated on. There is an old line from an early battle record that used to say "What is 

a dj if he can't scratch?" The best answer to that would probably be another question. "What 

is a person if he can't laugh?" Those two questions are the two things that make up the 

quintessential essence of DJ'ing and performing, or producing and playing as an artist"

"Heart & Soul"

For more info online:

http://www.myspace.com/cb4
http://www.facebook.com/cb4music
http://twitter.com/cb4music
http://www.youtube.com/cb4music
http://soundcloud.com/cb4
http://www.mixcloud.com/cb4music

Or E-mail directly:

cb4international@gmail.com

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