DJ Hen Boogie

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DJ Hen Boogie is an American born DJ/Producer whose music encompasses and fuses a wide variety of genres including jazz, hip hop, electronic music, and soul. He is arguably best known for being a pioneer of the Bay Area independent hip hop movement of the early 90's as the production mind behind the group The Dereliks whose release "A Turn on the Wheel is Worth More than a Record Deal" is still a highly sought after recording over 10 years after it's initial release. Beyond this release however he has created her own unique style of music that transcends traditional definitions of the aforementioned genres.

In 2003 DJ Hen Boogie returned to the musical scene with the release of "Change for the Bus Ride Home" on Sublevel Epidemic records which contained a collection of unreleased Dereliks songs as well as remastered outtakes from their "lost" demo tapes.

In 2005 he refocused on branding his own identity away from the Dereliks with the release of "Nobody Beats the Boog" on FemaleFun Records. This release solidified him as a major break record collector and force in hip hop documenting the countless rare records that many artists have previously sampled.

Since his debut he has released two singles on the Low Self Discipline label featuring Jeni Fujita of Fugees fame and with Swedish born Kissey Asplund. He also has been credited for remixes with O.U.O. (formely Zimbabwe Legit) featuring [[Asheru]] from Unspoken Heard and [[Sadat X]] of Brand Nubian fame. He also has completed his debut full length album titled "A Happy Present from the Planet Earth" set to be released May 2007 by the Eastern Developments subsidiary Easel Records.

He currently lives in California with his wife Michelle and his three children.