Bring your romantic mixtape to life.
Our specialty is understanding how and why your favorite styles of music work and putting it in a context your family can understand and your friends can dance to. We want your wedding to be as close to the mix you exchanged on your first date as possible and to bring your favorite songs to life.
Our Team
James Guzzi
Award-winning DJ and founder of the infamous Debaser parties, Jamie specializes in making obscure genres of indie danceable, recreating the mood and feeling of specific eras and placing pretty much any style in its appropriate historic context for an effect reminiscent of time travel.
He's been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, the SF Weekly, the SF Bay Guardian, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, The Bold Italic, The Bay Bridged, 48 Hills and Broke Ass Stuart's Goddam Website among others; has mixes on Live 105, KQED and NPR Music; and even was featured in a short film for Current TV.
He's humbly shared the stage with shoegaze gods like Ride, The Telescopes and Medicine and more contemporary acts like Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Geographer, Passion Pit and Washed Out. He's got a Best of the Bay and a Best of the SF Weekly hanging on the wall and can be found intermittent late nights on KALX 90.7 FM, Berkeley.
Rocky Ordonez
A partner in the production of Last Nite, both literally and figuratively, Rocky Ordonez aka DJ Rocky specializes in high intensity tag team DJ'ing where she helps recreate the feeling of being at an early 2000's indie club in the vein of Diplo's old Hollertronix parties or a radio show by mash-up cult favorites 2manydjs.
Trained as a sound engineer, she helps keep Jamie from blowing the levels as they trade off on track selection, EQ tricks, and generally trying not to melt anyones ears. She's a singer, songwriter and guitarist with a locally noteworthy indiepop record as part of Miami's See Venus. A pop and IDM aficionado, she helped develop much of the song list that would go on to be Last Nite.
Rocky and Jamie founded the company in 2017 as part of an epic Hail Mary to save up and get married themselves. After 6 years and 147 events she and Jamie were married on their 10 year anniversary in Sea Ranch, CA. They live together in San Francisco with their newborn son Diego and their cat, Philly.
Jackie Ciliberti
Jackie started working in record stores as a teenager which allowed her interests in music to quickly blossom from enthusiast to vinyl collector to DJ. As a result, Jackie's been spinning records for 20 years and has DJ'ed everywhere from New York City to Mexico City and many places in between. Locally, you can catch her throwing an all-vinyl, eclectic-genre dance party called Web of Sound at the Make Out Room which is now in its 10th year. When she's not playing records Jackie loves to travel and only recently returned to the Bay Area after living on the road for two years while traveling all over the lower 48 states. She currently splits her time between San Francisco and Mexico City where she works for All Trails writing copy for your favorite hikes and DJ’ing underground psych and garage parties.
You can check out Jackie's reviews here.
Pete Gowdy
Pete is a life-long music fanatic- first DJ gig at the tender age of 16 spinning new wave and alternative for his high school radio station, continuing through college on WVKR at Vassar College.
Moving to SF with his band The Sweet Things, he was immersed in the thriving 90s indie scene. An already eclectic musical taste could only expand in the Bay Area, including a deep dive into rockabilly, R&B and classic country. Soul and funk was the next obsession, and with a burgeoning record collection, club DJ nights began to compliment the band gigs.
As DJ Chas Gaudí, The long running Shellac Shack (vintage 78s) established him as the go-to DJ for retro events. All vinyl indie and punk nights were concurrent with c86, Teenage Kicks, Shattered, and Heroes & Villains. Classic soul and R&B nights as well spinning with Nick Waterhouse (before his music career took off) and many events with the San Francisco Junior League, plus a good number of weddings with folks looking for an alternative.
He currently hosts the punk/post-punk/power pop night So It Goes, first Saturdays at the Homestead Bar in SF. Check out the Spotify playlist here.
Benji Illgen
As a young child, Benji Illgen set out to master the machines that threatened to be the masters of men. Born in the Bay Area in 1976, Benji showed a strong passion for science, math and music. He was to be an inventor/engineer, but music had the greater gravitational pull, and he finally devoted himself to electronic music.
Known in the Bay Area as DJ Centipede, Benji wanted “to take the mystery out of the legend that says electronic music is an art that is esoteric, exclusively reserved for a few initiates, an elite of avant-garde intellectuals and artists” and raise it to the level of popular music.
While electronic and sample based music matured In the 90’s, so did Benji’s career as the most successful experimental electronic dance music DJ in the Bay Area. He was booked at a steady stream of underground raves until April of 1998 when one Oakland warehouse dance floor collapsed during one of his epic DJ sets.
As Mophono, Benji then focused his attention on the growing bay area beat scene, perfected his production and beat juggling skills while promoting San Francisco’s most forward thinking events. Since then Benji has released two full length albums and a slew of singles giving birth to two new genre’s Thug Jazz and Dirt Wave and a new standard in the record industry called Skip on Beat.
Inspired by 60’s psyche and experimental electronic music, Benji Is known for his destructive drum breaks and heavy and orchestral instrumental compositions.
With his legendary “Change the Beat” party in San Francisco, Benji is so deep in the beat culture melting pot he is stirring it. Performing live on Boiler Room with long time partner Gaslamp Killer and sharing the stage with DJ Shadow, Flying Lotus, Amon Tobin, Edan, DJ Food, DJ Krush, Dabrye, Diplo and De La Soul with his Skip on Beat records, drum machines and moogs, Benji intends to set a new standard in live electronic music performance.
Ian Tilghman
Ian is a lifelong music-obsessed, photographer, surfer, and DJ. He never expected to wind up with nearly 400 weddings in the last 7 years. Born and raised in Ocean City, MD, Ian started djing early, combining the NYC turntablism hip-hop style, with the House and Indie-Dance explosion, and his love for deep-cuts, boogie, soul, disco, and funk. When he moved to California, what started as just spinning tracks on Friday nights around the city, turned into an incredible volume of private events, ballparks, after-hours, and yes…many weddings. Ian is like Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolfe from Pulp Fiction. He keeps it mysterious. He wears a suit. He solves problems. In his free time, Ian enjoys surfing, photography, and lives in Los Angeles with his lovely wife Tsa Hai, brand new baby daughter Leila Lou and dog Ziggy.
Aaron Castle
Aaron Castle has been a staple in Los Angeles nightlife for over 15 years, spinning everything from Hollywood clubs to downtown warehouse parties. He plays a diverse range of music ranging from house, disco and funk to old school hip hop & R&B and has a loyal following of music fans from his years of experience.
Check him out on SoundCloud or find him Wednesdays at The Short Stop, Thursdays at Standard Roof Downtown & Apotheke, Fridays at Apotheke and Saturdays at Honeycut.
Chip Brokaw
Chip Brokaw, also known as DJ Colin Jones, is an all vinyl radio and club DJ from Portland, Oregon. After years of record store and radio experience, Chip co-founded the SNAP 90's Dance Party which has been a monthly staple in Portland's club scene for almost 18 years.
Chip's focus has always been on the cross section of alternative rock and dance. From 80's and 90's retro alternative to goth, hip hop, house and indie, Chip loves to play from the heart with the best records and songs for the event at hand.
Chip's current parties include Love Asylum Club, The 80's JAM, Goth Prom, his Buffy The Vampire Slayer Tribute and of course SNAP 90s Dance Party, but he luckily still finds time to create magical moments for individual events such as yours.
You can check out his radio show "The Big Green Jones Show" on Mixcloud.
The Down & Dirty Rhythm Review
Are you ready to get down and dirty? The Down and Dirty Rhythm Review will have you cutting up a rug to your favorite soul, blues and rock ‘n’ roll tunes!
This epic 7 piece cover band features 3 girl singers and an array of 50’s, 60’s and 70’s soul inspired classics. As artist and band leader Johnny Dismal describes, “It’s three women singing up front and I got my buddy who sings and plays harmonica and I play guitar, and we got a drummer and a bass player. It’s playing all our favorite songs, by our favorite people. We do Elvis and some Buddy Holly. We write stuff, too.”
Check out the The Down and Dirty Rhythm Review once a month in North Beach at Maggy McGarry’s or read this great interview with Johnny Dismal about his art and music in Trailblazer magazine.
North American Scum
Born on a snowy night in San Francisco while Robbie was shopping for peas and milk, North American Scum is the world's greatest* LCD Soundsystem tribute band.
They’ve also been known to headline numerous theme parties in the guise of other iconic acts including Daft Punk, Prince, Talking Heads and Devo and occasionally amaze audiences with their command of other punk, post-punk, alternative rock and indie dance tunes of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s.
Check them out on their website, Facebook and YouTube pages.
Bang On
Since 2010 Bang On has been kicking out the indie/alt rock jams. If it’s Britpop, college rock, post-punk, or anything else that sits under that well-loved classic, alternative rock umbrella, it’s fair game for them. The players in Bang On were raised on alternative radio and stay active in the San Francisco Bay Area cover band scene. We keep busy, and keep our performance and entertainment skills sharp! If you are looking to add high energy live alternative/indie rock to your event, Bang On will deliver.
Check them out on the official Bang On website here. They’ve also got a few more photos and performance clips on their Facebook page.
Miguel Padilla
Miguel Padilla has been a rock musician most of his life, fronting his bands Dora Flood, The Soft Bombs and Michael and The Machines. However, since 2014 he has also played boleros from Mexico and Latin America, which is the music of his family heritage. His love of this music fueled his search for it's roots which led him to a deep love for Flamenco. He has since become a requested accompanist for the flamenco dancers in Sacramento. Recently, he lived in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain for 16 months and studied under the new guard of flamenco family dynasties, most notably, Juan Manuel Moneo (nephew of “El Torta”) and Pepe del Morao (nephew of “Moraito” and grandson of Manuel Morao).
When he is not playing at wineries and restaurants in the Sierra Foothills, he is also a producer/engineer at his own, The Soundport Recording Studio in Grass Valley, California.