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Babu

Filipino-American DJ and producer

United States • b. 1974-09-17

Babu is credited on 393 releases across 153 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1996–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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393

Pressings credited

153

Albums

Decades active

368

In collections

Biography

Christopher E. Oroc (born September 17, 1974), better known as DJ Babu, is a Filipino-American DJ, record producer, turntablist, and educator. He is a member of the world-renowned DJ crew the Beat Junkies, the Los Angeles–based hip-hop trio Dilated Peoples, and the duo Likwit Junkies with rapper Defari. Babu is widely credited with coining the term "turntablist" to describe DJs who approach the turntable as a musical instrument. He has been referred to by the DMC World DJ Championships as the "godfather of turntablism" due to his influence on competitive DJing and technical innovation. As of 2017, Babu is the co-founder and Program Director of the Beat Junkie Institute of Sound (BJIOS), a DJ school and professional training facility in Los Angeles. In 2025, he joined the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University as a member of its Hip Hop Studies faculty, where he teaches DJing and turntable performance at the conservatory level.

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