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December 2011 The Filipino-American Story: Oishi Media Editor/Director Dj Duel
Visiting Oishi Media and reading from my (twitter) timeline almost daily I can feel DJ Duel's passion for his work, the fire that burns within him reaches you! What is even better is this young Filam also supports our community! Recently, Oishi Media just released a beautiful production for Christmas, Fall Out of Love by Krystle Cruz a San Diego Filam talent that we featured also here at The Filipino-American...
Dj Duel, what is your full name? Marvin DjDueL Suerto
Where were you born? I was born in Quezon City, Philippines
You are currently based in LA, correct? Thats absolutely correct! Northeast Los Angeles
Your first passion, is being a Scratch DJ, can you tell us what that is? I originally broke into the industry as a Battle DJ. With my crew, "SpinCycleLA - Dj's Rever, War, WreckStyle, Hectik and Eri" Going from competition to competition, then later working with Artists. Recording on albums scratching on turntables adding accents and flavor to HipHop songs.
When did you start doing this? I started DJ'ing in 1996 and went on all the way through 2010.
You are now the Editor/Director of Oishi Media, tell us what is Oishi Media about? OISHIMEDIA is a group of guys that started off as friends, a DJ (DjDuel, that's me), an MC (Bong), a BreakDancer (B-Boy Starskee), and a Video Game designer (CJ), that entered a commercial contest for a cereal company for fun. We had so much fun doing it, that we decided to make more videos. And now, almost 2 years later, we've worked with a lot of influential artists that we've always looked up to.
How many members does Oishi Media have and who are they? There are four of us. Starskee is our primary videographer, he takes all of my Direction and captures them on film exactly as I envision them. He also, assists in the editing and coloring of the film. CJ is our Visual FX Guru. Being professionally trained in the field of video game design, he takes his knowledge and uses it for all our Special FX needs. Bong is our technical adviser and helps us with photography. He creates the tools, and sets we need behind the scenes.
Then there's me, I direct and do most of the editing. We usually come up with the storyline's and general creative ideas and present them to the Artist. We take the meaning of their work and translate it Visually. READ MORE
Where were you born? I was born in Quezon City, Philippines
You are currently based in LA, correct? Thats absolutely correct! Northeast Los Angeles
Your first passion, is being a Scratch DJ, can you tell us what that is? I originally broke into the industry as a Battle DJ. With my crew, "SpinCycleLA - Dj's Rever, War, WreckStyle, Hectik and Eri" Going from competition to competition, then later working with Artists. Recording on albums scratching on turntables adding accents and flavor to HipHop songs.
When did you start doing this? I started DJ'ing in 1996 and went on all the way through 2010.
You are now the Editor/Director of Oishi Media, tell us what is Oishi Media about? OISHIMEDIA is a group of guys that started off as friends, a DJ (DjDuel, that's me), an MC (Bong), a BreakDancer (B-Boy Starskee), and a Video Game designer (CJ), that entered a commercial contest for a cereal company for fun. We had so much fun doing it, that we decided to make more videos. And now, almost 2 years later, we've worked with a lot of influential artists that we've always looked up to.
How many members does Oishi Media have and who are they? There are four of us. Starskee is our primary videographer, he takes all of my Direction and captures them on film exactly as I envision them. He also, assists in the editing and coloring of the film. CJ is our Visual FX Guru. Being professionally trained in the field of video game design, he takes his knowledge and uses it for all our Special FX needs. Bong is our technical adviser and helps us with photography. He creates the tools, and sets we need behind the scenes.
Then there's me, I direct and do most of the editing. We usually come up with the storyline's and general creative ideas and present them to the Artist. We take the meaning of their work and translate it Visually. READ MORE 
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