Dave Aju started out as a wordplayful alias for a San Francisco experimental techno night in the early oughties. It has since become a name synonymous with a distinctive voice and unique blend of dance music styles with a sound truly all its own. Born Marc David Barrite and raised by a Bay Area jazz-head father, an early peer of Pharaoh Sanders, he then became an avid young B-boy and MC in the local hip-hop scene before eventually finding his niche in the deeper left-field corners of the global house music scene, channeling all of these influences. Having released three full-length concept albums praised and award-nominated for their originality with Parisian label family Circus Company and a variety of special EP releases for labels including Music For Freaks and Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records, a long history of DJ and live performances at renown international venues from Fabric and Panorama Bar to the Sonar and MUTEK festivals, as well as regular guest spots on tastemaker radio programs like Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide BBC show, Dave Aju now finds himself in an accomplished and satisfied creative zone at home in Los Angeles, working behind the scenes on a variety of projects in the mighty Machine Limited studios (formerly the Beastie Boys’ Grand Royal/G-son studio), teaching production courses to the next generation at Hollywood’s Musician Institute, launching the Greasy Listening mix series that promotes warm futurist sounds for the headphones and floor as well as prepping his own new imprint, and highly-anticipated fourth album TXLAX coming soon on Tokyo’s esteemed Mule Musiq.