Gruvworks: For the record what is your real name ? Dj Adrian: My real name is Art Vasquez my Dj name is "DJ ADRIAN" Gruvworks: When did you start Djing ? Dj Adrian: That's a good question & kind of a funny one to. I would say the summer of 1983., Me & some of my friends were break dancing in my garage, I all ready had a Realistic mixer & two home stereo turntables as i was changing a record (mixing) my friend Edward said "I could never learn how to mix" & "I will never get it".I don't know about you but i don't like it when someone says that they can't do something. Gruvworks: So how long have you been a DJ. ? Dj Adrian: About 22 years now. Gruvworks: Do you remember your first gig. ? Dj Adrian: My first gig was 1984 @ The Florentine Gardens, I still have that flyer

Gruvworks: Who have been some of the people you worked with when you first started to DJ ? Dj Adrian: Oh ! some real great DJ's lets see Tony Morales(Tony Largo), Victor Flores, Steve Beltran(Risque), John Jellybean, Maxwell of (Wham), The Dj Theo Veness we all worked @ The Florentine Gardens together. I have also worked with with some other great DJ's like, Martin Rodriguez & Pebo Rodriguez form the group "STOP", DJ Domingo from Caddies, Frank Del Rio, Victor Aleman, Fabian Vangelli, DJ Taylor, DJ Juanito, Richard Vission and also The Awesome Foursome The DJ's Debonair, Prism, Danger, Guilty Gruvworks: What are some of the night clubs you worked at.? Dj Adrian: Wow so many lets see Circus Disco in Hollywood, both Fantasia night clubs(Puente hills & downtown LA)., The Red Onion in West Covina, Studio 1, The Century Club, The Myan, Florentine Gardens in (El Monte' & Hollywood), Marilyn's Back Street, Mannequinz & some guest spots at The Quiet Cannon, The Safari Bar.

Gruvworks: This is a question I've been dying to ask., Where did the name Dj Adrian come from. ? Dj Adrian: Oh that's a good one, I was Djing here & there nothing major in 1989 a friend told me about this club called Mannequinz in Los Angeles they were holding auditions for a new Dj at the club so i went & i audition for the job and i got the position as the main resident Dj, The next week on my first day on the job the promoter for the club ask for my name so he could announce me to the crowd and i didn't want to give him my old Dj names like: Art Fashion or Art Visual so i told him my initals A.J. but he didn't hear me over the sound system so he annouced me as Dj Adrian & so that's how i got that name & it stuck with me ever since. Gruvworks: Did you own or worked for a record label, what was the record label called. ? Dj Adrian: The record label was called "Bust A Groove" Me & Dj Juanito both came out with the name and started the label together, I had worked & remixed the first five albums vol. 1 - 5 .

Gruvworks: So how has Djing effected your life. ? Dj Adrian: I have met alot of people & also made alot of friends & had alot of fun doing it "I mean alot of fun". Gruvworks: If you had a chance to change anything in your Dj past what would you change. ? Dj Adrian: No way !! I wouldn't change one thing. Gruvworks: Do you have any advise for these new & up coming DJ's. ? Dj Adrian: Yeah lets see, know your Dj history, know who was there, know when it started and know who started it.