Needle Exchange, Out-of-Towner Edition: Riobamba (Brooklyn)

Her go-to records, her craziest gig and the music you should never ask her to play.

IMAGE: Guarionex Rodriguez Jr.
By Matthew Singer

Years DJing: Seven.

Genre: Open format, always. But I tend to draw heavily from breeds of música urban/reggaetón/dembow, hip-hop and bass music—threads connecting Latinx communities and the diaspora.

Where You Can Catch Me Regularly: I'm based in Brooklyn and play around various clubs here regularly. I also host a monthly show on The Lot Radio with my sis DEBIT, and my party in Boston called Picó Picante is about to hit our six-year anniversary in July.

Craziest Gig: Playing an opening set last summer in Manhattan for one of my personal heroes, Tego Calderón, has to be up there.

My Go-To Records: Edits from DJVIVAEDIT (or DJVIVAEDIT 2 when his Soundcloud page gets shut down occasionally) have taken over my playlists.

Don't Ever Ask Me to play…: I've learned to how to aggregate "Despacito" requests.

SEE IT: Riobamba spins at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., for Gran Ritmos, with Casual Aztec and 2Tabs, on Saturday, July 1. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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