Entering the world as Justin Blau, DJ 3LAU is a producer of progressive house music who started playing music from an early age. Born in Syosset, New York back in 1991, Blau educated himself to play the piano at age five, and finally took up guitar and drums.
LAU became captivated by music at age 5 when he initially trained himself to experiment with the piano, and then drums and guitar. Today, as 3LAU (which sounds like Blau) produces his 1st initial mixtures, every single song still in with the piano. Harvesting imaginative penetration from inspirations Radiohead and Sigur Ros, 3LAU plans to generate elegance, harmony, and sentiment straight into dance music.
3LAU 1st grabbed the electronic music landscape by surprise, stimulating dance parties and designing sounds to the joy of devotees globally. Becoming involved in the launch circuit fewer than a couple of years back, 3LAU accumulated prevalent recognition with a couple of diverse sets of bootlegs entitled “Dance Floor Filth” along with the proceeds continuously identifies 3LAU’s exceptional music.
3LAU obtained enormous acknowledgement in the electronic music universe back in ’11 using his 2 bootlegs entitled “All Night Long” and “Girls Who Save the World”. In addition, he triumphed in a remix contest for his remix of Tiesto’s track entitled “Work Hard, Play Hard.” He’s recognized for his melodic handle on dance music along with live sets that feature sampling.
Prior to ’12, 3LAU occupied his days with going to school at Washington University and through the nighttime. In the year 2012, he dedicated to DJing and founded a tour which was dubbed, “3LAU Your Mind”. He also introduced his 2nd bootleg record entitled, “Dance Floor Filth”. Late in ’13, he took a brief journey with Carnage known as the “Night Riot Tour”.
3LAU operates tightly along with non-profit group “Pencils of Promise”, which collects funds to create academic institutions in building nations. Making use of earnings from his remix of “Back to New,” 3LAU generated twenty-five thousand dollars for “Pencils of Promise” and assisted to construct Justo Rufino Primary School in the nation of Guatemala. 3LAU’s latest tour earned over $10K to give toward constructing a creating yet another school.
In January of 2014, 3LAU connected with the EDM lifestyle brand known as “Electric Family” established a cooperation that which all of the earnings will be contributed to the “Pencils of Promise” project.