Coflo – “It was the culture that raised me”

Coflo was a dancer when he became a DJ, and a DJ when he became one of the finest music producers to emerge from the Bay Area in the last decade. But he practices all three at an exceptionally high level – incorporating dance and movement from the American style of house dance and the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira into the music he plays and the music that he makes. From learning dance at a young age among the legendary Circle of Fire crew, “my whole world,” Coflo says, “has revolved around house music. I always say that it was the culture that raised me.” And after heeding the call to teach house dance, managing Carlos Mena’s Ocha Records and releasing new music and remixes on labels from Local Talk to Yoruba, he’s emerged as an absolutely vital artist in the house music scene.