About Rafe

BACK TO THE WHEELS
The explosion of acid jazz in the early 90s rekindled Gomez’s enthusiasm about d.j.ing, and he was soon spinning several nights a week in small Jersey City clubs. “Labels like Acid Jazz, Ubiquity, and Instinct were releasing records that got me excited about music again,” says Gomez. “Sure, there were producer-created one-offs that were aimed squarely at the clubs, but they featured great performances by really talented musicians! And then there were album artists such as Corduroy, JTQ, The New Jersey Kings, Outside, and Greyboy who created melodic, vibrant, chops-heavy music that blew me away. I was determined to figure out a way to help promote and support this sound, as well as create my version of it.”

BACK TO THE LAB
Gomez returned to the studio and spent the next several years creating jazzy, funky compositions for soundtracks, including a number of titles that were used by MTV (“Real World”, “Extreme Challenge”, “Making The Video”) PBS (“In The Mix”), and in independent film (“Never Again”). Gomez also collaborated on a variety of mix projects for independent jazz-funk label Undersound Recordings.

Wheels of steel-wise, Gomez found that the Internet offered an excellent opportunity for him to showcase his jazz mixing vision. He created a series of one-hour mixes that were featured on the Web’s premier jazz-funk radio sites, including Mixmeister’s mmRadio.com, the funk and soul site mrsoulsatisfaction.com, and the Netherlands-based jazz-funk site royalgroove.com.

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