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DJ Mag Top100 DJs
28
Deorro
9

Deorro, born Erick Orrosquieta, started out DJing when he was just 14. Keen to encourage his interest in music, his father — also a DJ — bought him a copy of DAW Cakewalk Sonar aged 17, and he’s been producing ever since. 

The LA-based producer and DJ’s breakthrough moment came in 2012 when he was asked to remix Chuckie’s ‘Make Some Noise’ — the resulting track reached the Beatport Top 50. Orrosquieta has since gone on to release singles on Hardwell’s label Revealed Recordings and collaborate with Steve Aoki, Diplo and R3hab.

In last year’s DJ Mag poll, Orrosquieta was voted in at No.19, the highest charting new entrant. Shortly before voting closed, the American-Mexican DJ made the surprise announcement on Twitter that he would be taking a break from performing to focus on producing and expanding his own record label PandaFunk.

The gamble seemed to pay off: in December, Orrosquieta’s single ‘Five More Hours’, featuring Chris Brown, reached top 10 in charts across Europe. He’s since returned to DJing, playing Coachella, EDC Las Vegas, Electric Zoo earlier this year as well as making a couple of appearances in the UK.

ADAM BYCHAWSKI