San Francisco DJ/producer Dave Aju has been rocking to the beat of his own drum for nearly a decade. He works traditional elements of electronic dance music with a true music-lover's palette. Everything from free jazz, soul, and funk, to hip-hop, post-punk, and musique concréte inspires his consistently fresh and expressive sound, seeing him in demand for both remix work and performances from Moscow to Sydney to the highly-respected MUTEK Festival, and supported by a variety of forward-thinking peers including the illustrious Matthew Herbert, who has recently commissioned Aju for an EP release. Open Wide, his 2008 debut full-length, is still causing a stir in the electronic music community, was nominated for the honorable Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and praised by many esteemed colleagues for it's bold diversity of musical styles and the strict but effective use of only his mouth and voice as sound sources to make it.