DJ Carlos became a DJ, following in his father and uncle’s footsteps. He visited one of their parties as a 5 year old kid and knew he wanted to be a DJ after seeing all the happy faces on the audience. He started doing all kinds of DJ jobs growing up and in 1992, Joel from A Rave Called Sharon, found him at a Latin club where he was working and invited him to play at their next party. Since that day DJ Carlos played at every weekend rave in San Francisco. In 1993, DJ Carlos became a Resident at Recycle on Wednesdays and Universal Groove on Thursdays, while still playing Saturday raves and Sunday Spundays. In 1994, DJ Carlos started his own party with DJ Dutch and DJ Christoff, CDCSoundsystem and still playing raves on the weekends. He then started flying to Denver to play at the Come Together Party with DJ Dan, DJ Hippy, DJ Halo, DJ Terry Mullan, and many others. In 1995, a new party was started called Area 51 and Josh Wink headlined one of them. DJ Carlos played with DJ Tony, DJ Jeno, DJ Astralmatrixx and DJ Carlos started flying out to Seattle, Portland, New York, Cleveland, and every major city in Ohio, Chicago, and the whole Midwest. In 1996, DJ Carlos started a new party called LOVE with a new company called the SF House Collective and played with Dubtribe and an endless list of DJs. He played a family reunion in the Midwest, and in New York at Twilo and with Phato Productions. In 1998, DJ Carlos played at Nikita with DJ Sasha. By the time the house music scene began to subside, DJ Carlos had played in almost all 50 states, except for Montana and Idaho. DJ Carlos then took 3 years off and started playing again at Fiddler’s Green in Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. DJ Carlos recently started a new company called Toltek Productions where he is dedicating all his energy to producing music and has many more events to come.
