Location /	NYC -> LES
RA since/	29 January 2009
Last online /	07 February 2012
Total posts /	48

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Founder and resident DJ of the Wobble parties at Cielo (third Friday of every month) and his monthly Sorted parties, Arana has quickly built a reputation as one of New York City's most dynamic and versatile DJs by weaving together energetic, tightly-executed sets of underground dance music and moving his dance floors with bending basslines, intricate layers and an uncompromising focus on musicality beyond the simple boom-boom.

Arana honed his musical ear composing on classical guitar and playing in rock bands starting at the age of 13. After moving to NYC to study law at NYU, he fell in love with dance music in 1999, taught himself to DJ in 2003 as he juggled life as a corporate lawyer, and then launched the first Wobble parties in 2004 as moved his law practice to the back-burner. He is currently focused on his monthly music events and finalizing his first release for the launch of his upstart tech-house label, Wobble Music, based in the Lower East Side.

Using a 3-channel setup and an aggressive mixing style, Arana pushes his sets into live-remix terrain through frequent use of filters, effects, hot cues and fader cuts. Those sets cover a broad range of house, techno, minimal, indie/electronica and bass music and often contain exciting movements between bright/uplifting and dark/dirty extremes. An experienced special events music programmer and DJ, Arana also commands a broad knowledge of many genres including jazz, funk and most forms of classic and contemporary dance music. Whatever label or description is applied to the music he plays, Arana has an uncanny ability to hear the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic elements which he knows will resonate with his audience to inspire authentic movement and feeling on the floor.