DJ Disk

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DJ Disk is a San Francisco Bay Area turntablist of Panamanian and Nicaraguan descent. Born Luis Quintanilla on October 7, 1970, in San Francisco, Disk began scratching and mixing vinyl at a young age, and in 1992 joined his long-time friend DJ Q-bert in the Rock Steady Crew DJ's, before changing their name to the Invisibl Skratch Piklz.

As a founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Disk has been an enormously influential DJ, and is credited with inventing the 2 Click Orbit and the 2 Click Flare Lazer Orbit.^[1]

In addition to extensive hip hop work with the Piklz and others, Disk has collaborated with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Zakir Hussein, Mike Patton, and Jack DeJohnette, amongsts many others, and has toured worldwide. While not on tour, he lives in his hometown of San Francisco where he records and teaches turntablism.