Eli Escobar is the quintessential New York City DJ.Over the past ten years he’s built a reputation around his parties, emerging as one of the most talented in the NY dance scene. With a style based on his diverse tastes, Eli subversively drops his influences and personal favorites into even the most commercial of sets. Anyone who knows anything about dance music knows Eli Escobar, and if you don’t you will.Eli grew up in 1980’s New York City. His love for hip-hop brought him his first set of turntables and he became a connoisseur of vinyl records very early on, building his collection and expanding his knowledge of the music that moves people. He spent much of the Nineties in the New York club scene, going to parties and eventually being the reason others went. By 1999 he’d produced his first string of hip-hop 12 inches, which was only the beginning of his broadening musical aspirations.