In the mid 1990's, California's San Francisco Bay Area dance community was enthralled in one of it's biggest dance music transitions in history.  House and Techno consumed the Bay Area in  more than a few ways.  DJs were given hero like respect and attention.  A mass of new rave promotional companies, and sub-culture tentacles came to be.  The DJ world was introduced to those outside of the sub-culture that was once a very underground dance community .During this period, DJ Airek was heavily involved in getting to know the underground dance community.  Having been exposed to DJs like DJ Garth, DJ Spun, Carlos, David Garcia, Barry Weaver, Doc Martin, Frankie Bones, and multiple other house music DJs popular at the time, DJ Airek was consumed by house music in it's most organic form. House music, during this era of dance music history, was a more organic experience at the time. Today's house music, is a culturally evolved hybrid of the house music that influenced DJ Airek in the late nineties, and made up one of the most vibrant, healthy house music scene's in the United States at that time.

      It was also at this time, that Hip-Hop and Rap music became cool to listen too, even if you weren't a homeboy.  Being a resident of the east side of San Jose, exposed DJ Airek to traditional Mexican culture and the influence of that culture on music in the 1990's.  Lowriding and Sunday cruising emulated the fifties and sixties era of car clubs and community interaction.  The Latino culture had a great effect on the Hip-Hop culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Bay Area's dance music community and it's hip-hop culture were spiced nicely by the San Francisco Bay Area's Latino community. Both retained a mutual respect to one another and grew together. Experiencing two incredible evolutions of two separate cultures, at the same time, gave DJ Airek an incredible view of what was to come to the world next. 

       In the late, late nineties, electronic dance music began to develop a following of increased popularity.  Similar to the Rock-N-Roll era style acceptance that rock received in the eighties and early nineties.  The DJ world was developing at seriously rapid rates.  Everyone needed DJs, and there were plenty of them.  DJ Airek Spent the core explosion of the latest dance music explosion in Southern California.  It is the same late nineties era of the dance community, that pushed DJ Airek into the underground forever.   

      More demand equaled needs for more production companies; and they came.  The late nineties spawned some of the most notorious night clubs and raves in Southern California.  Reaching peak popularity, "massive" types of events continued to encourage anyone interested, to experience this "new" music, found in the underground dance community.  Although many, many different people have influenced the dance community, in many positive ways, we are specifically identifying JujuBeats, Narnia, How Sweet It Is, Together as One, and Audiotistic for being some of the driving factors in shaping the rave communities history and future.

     Nightclub life was coming alive again, similar to the fanatic nature of the disco era.  People wanted to be entertained again, and not necessarily by a band.  The new phenomenon continued to draw new followers into the incredible electronic dance music world; and then she was born...............Glitter @ The Baja Brewery.

TO BE CONTINUED.............