Artist
Babu
Filipino-American DJ and producer
Washington, D.C., United States · b. 1974
Babu is a musician from Washington, D.C., United States, active since 1974. They also recorded with Dilated Peoples.
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1974
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Biography
Born September 17, 1974 in Washington, D.C., USA as Chris Oroc, DJ Babu is a Filipino-American DJ. One-third of the hip hop group Dilated Peoples (alongside Rakaa-Iriscience and Evidence, Babu is also a member of the Beat Junkies DJ crew, and together with rapper Defari forms the duo The Likwit Junkies. He lived in Oxnard, California for 1 year, and later moved to the neighboring city of Camarillo.
Babu has won multiple competition titles Including the Vestax World Championships and multiple ITF titles. As a revered battle DJ he has appeared in and hosted numerable videos. Under the name "The Turntablist", and produced perhaps the genre's most popular battle record, 1996's Super Duck Breaks, which sold over 10,000 copies.
DJ Babu has also featured on numerous acts alongside groups such as Jurassic 5, Swollen Members and The Visionaries. Individually Babu has featured in many other groups as well.
He is also the one responsible for Coining the phrase "TURNTABLIST".
Bio from Discogs
Dilated Peoples
A project Babu was part of.
Expansion Team
2001
The Platform
2000
Worst Comes To Worst / Target Practice
2001
Neighborhood Watch
2004
20/20
2006
This Way
2004
The Platform
2000
You Can't Hide, You Can't Run
2006
Rework The Angles / Guaranteed (12 Inch Mix) / Work The Angles (Remix)
1999
Work The Angles / The Main Event / Triple Optics
1998
Back Again
2006
Expansion Team Sampler
2001
Third Degree
1997
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