Get to Know SoCal Artist and Documentarian CEEDs

DJ, producer, and journalist CEEDs talks about his inspirations, jazz upbringing, and why the scene is so important to him. If you’ve been out in Southern California, chances are you’ve run into CEEDs. This DJ, producer, journalist, and scene documentarian seems omnipresent. You might find him in the front row at Sound Nightclub or festivals like Day Trip, or see him running through the crowd at a Brownies & Lemonade event with a microphone in hand, interviewing strangers who make the scene what it is. That curiosity is core to what makes CEEDs different. He doesn’t observe the scene from the outside, nor is he solely focused on his own artist project. Whether he’s DJing across SoCal, interviewing artists and fans, creating documentaries, working with local promoters, or simply exploring a new corner of dance music, he approaches it all with curiosity. A self-described hedonist and “rabid student,” he is never afraid to follow an idea wherever it leads. His music reflects that same open-mindedness. CEEDs describes his sound as “quirked-up house music”: playful, left-of-center, and groove-focused, with foundations in his early jazz education and the countless late nights in the ...