Arana
Arana
♬ Founder and resident DJ of the Wobble and OpenAir parties in NYC, and a former resident at Cielo, Arana has steadily built a reputation as one of the city's most intriguing and meticulous deep house/tech/electronica DJs by moving dance floors with bending basslines, intricate layers and an uncompromising focus on musicality beyond the simple boom-boom.Arana honed his musical ear composing on classical guitar and playing in rock bands as a teen in California. After moving to NYC for law school, he fell in love with dance music, taught himself to DJ as he juggled life as a corporate lawyer, and then launched the first Wobble parties in 2004. Using a 3-channel setup and an active mixing style, Arana's sets frequently push into live-remix terrain through looping, layering and fader cuts, with sometimes surprising movements between bright/uplifting and dark/dirty extremes. Whatever labels are attached to his style, Arana has an uncanny ability to hear the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic