DJ Craze, born Aristh Delago on November 19, 1977, is a Nicaraguan American DJ who plays hip hop, Miami bass, Trap, rests, Dubstep, drum n bass, and practices turntablism. He is the only real solo DJ ever to claim the DMC World DJ Championships prize three times consecutively from 1998-2000.
DJ Craze was born in Managua, Nicaragua. At age 3, in 1980, he fled the state along with his family through the war which continued throughout the 1980s. Craze and his family moved to San Francisco, California, where they resided for a quick while, before moving to Miami, Florida, where he now lives.
The style of his music carries many of his previous musical influences. Initially affected by the Miami Bass movement when he was younger, Craze has gone to include aspects of hip hop, drum n bass, and breaks in his turntable routines. Lately, Craze has changed his emphasis to DJing and making drum n bass along with his own record label “Cartel”.
Craze released his first record in 1999, Crazee Musick, along with a second in 2002, Scratch nerds. He also released an album called DDay in 2002 with his turntable group, The Allies.
Craze has released two of the most famous conflict records ever, “Bully Breaks” and “Bully Breaks 2”.
Craze was Kanye West’s DJ because of his Glow in the Dark tour in 2008 while ATrak worked on his Fool’s Gold record label and tour.
Craze was featured in the Native Instruments web site demoing the Traktor X1 Controller.
Lately, Craze created his own record label with fellow DJ & pal Kill The Noise, Slow Knock Records. Slow Roast is distributed by Fool’s Gold, the record label shared by A Trak and Nick Catchdubs. Besides Craze and Kill The Noise, Klever, Codes, and Senor Stereo additionally release content below the Slow Knock label.
In February 2011 DJ Craze and DJ Shiftee worked jointly, spinning onstage with controllerist and Traktor S4 advisor Ean Golden at Nightclub EVE in downtown Miami for the Midi Fight Club occasion. Between the both of these, DJ Craze and DJ Shiftee had 7 DMC world championships behind them. The occasion emphasized using Native Instruments controls, such as X1, S4 and Maschine.
In September 2011, DJ Craze became Yelawolf’s DJ, and signed a deal to his label Slumerican Records. He was featured on Yelawolf “Hard White Tour”, as well as Rittz.
