Episode 004 of our rv_cast has arrived! Hac Le is our first guest DJ with a stellar live mix from this years Forecastle Festival for your listening pleasure.
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Hac got his start into DJing with a residency at Kontrol Factory in LA in 1993, although it wasn’t until moving to Chicago in 2000 that he rekindled his romance with the decks. In 2002 he met Jason Short at Gramaphone Records—the Chicago record store—and soon they started to DJ produce together under the Kyaro moniker.
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A tour around Mexico in 2003 saw him open up for the likes of Deep Dish and Hernan Cataneo, and later in the year he formed Play Co. with Chris Caliendo and Sasha Navarro back in Chicago.
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2004 could be considered a turning point in Hac’s career seeing him play gigs along side Kazell and Lee Burridge in Mexico, and more notably catching the ear of John Digweed who named him the winner of the Future Music “Next Big Thing” DJ contest.
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In 2005 Hac got the chance to play for the first time in Miami at the Winter Music Conference, and also at the Love Parade in San Francisco, which is where I met him and Jason Short for the first time at FunkyCozy afterhours party in the basement of a Mexican restaurant! (We launched RV 1.0 at the Love Parade in San Francisco back in 2005.)
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Since ’05 it’s been onward and upward for Hac, as a partner in the San Francisco based record label Auralism and gigs in New York, Detroit, Louisville and London along the way. In 2007 he became a listed Productions resident, and was cemented into the legacy of the listed Tikki parties in Miami. That year also saw James Zabiela naming him as the DJ Mag “Breakout DJ of 2008″.
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I had a chance to catch up with Hac to ask him a few questions for his rv_cast which I’m pleased to share with you here.
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