GRAMMY winning producer, CID, is undoubtedly one of the hardest working artists in dance music – rated by just about everyone from Solomun, Jamie Jones, Joseph Capriati, Lee Foss, Fisher, MK, Diplo, Sonny Fodera, Chris Lake, Martinez Bros and more as one of the best producers in the game.
NYC-based CID is one of the highest selling artists on Beatport, has two GRAMMY nominations and hundreds of millions of streams to his name, and has toured the world, performing at the biggest events on the planet. The artist, DJ, producer, Night Service Only label boss and radio show host started his journey watching a local DJ spin at his dad’s Spanish restaurant. By age 11 he’d decided he wanted to learn how to mix.
A chance meeting with an old friend led to an internship at a professional recording studio. CID’s first shift was assisting a session with Ashanti which ran until 6am the next morning. CID did what any hungry young producer would do. Slept on the couch and opened up the studio at 9am to do it all again. His work ethic, driven by his passion for music sets CID apart from his peers.
While working at the studio, CID partnered up with Greg Bahary (Hott 22). Together they worked on remixes for some of the biggest names around and before long CID began to catch the attention of more artists, including Cedric Gervais who enlisted his skills on the GRAMMY winning remix of Lana Del Ray’s ‘Summertime Sadness.’
Meanwhile, CID’s own artist project had picked up steam. Releases on some of the biggest dance music labels led to CID being invited to tour with the some of the A-list names in dance music. This was a pivotal moment for CID who was finally able to spin his own music to huge crowds. Soon CID was booked for shows every week and he quickly decided to focus his production skills on his own artist project. Making club-shaking tracks that he and the most respected DJs in the game would want to play, week in week out.
Once again, CID’s work ethic and incredible skills as a producer shone through. Releases on Solotoko, Catch & Release and Repopulate Mars, among many others, and his own Night Service Only label have cemented him as a Beatport chart topper and one of the most credible house music artists around. While his remix of “Audio” by Labrinth, Sia & Diplo (LSD) secured him a second GRAMMY nomination.
As a DJ CID has performed at just about every major festival you can think of including Coachella, EDC Las Vegas, Electric Zoo, Nocturnal Wonderland, Electric Circus, Lollapalooza and Tomorrowland, and the most iconic venues on the planet. CID has brought his take on house music to the likes of Hakkasan, Las Vegas to New York’s Brooklyn Mirage, Academy in Los Angeles and further afield to London’s iconic music hotspot The Roundhouse, Japan’s aggressively underground Circus nightclub and Hï and Eden in Ibiza.
CID’s talent for writing and producing incredible music, spinning hand-picked records that crowds need to hear and his hunger to constantly evolve as an artist mean that he will be at the top of the dance music scene for decades to come.