Andrew Paris DJ
Andrew Paris DJ (formerly DJ LoST BoY from New Orleans) is an electronic music producer and DJ in Austin, Texas.
Andrew Paris DJ started out as Andrew Chud in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where in 1992, he started spinning house music on vinyl in underground venues, the first of which “Soul Sex” (a party in a friend’s apartment building basement) turned into the title of his own record label, Soul Sex Records. Under Soul Sex Records, he released his first two self-published vinyl records in 1997, First Light E.P. and Out of the Shadows E.P. under the artist name DJ Lost Boy.
In 1993, he moved to New Orleans, where he joined local DJs and producers, such as Disco Donnie and Scot Whitfield (S&M productions) to help build up the local rave scene. In 1994, he threw his first underground party at a blues bar, called Muddy Waters, in uptown New Orleans, which drew local teens and college students into the burgeoning rave scene. The cover charge for the party was $3.
DJ Lost Boy played at various underground rave parties in New Orleans, including the first Zoolu party at State Palace Theater in 1995. Andrew joined friend Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) to write some tracks, which were released on local offshoot label Black Magic Trance, owned by Mike Scott (The Liquid Method) who ran a local record store in Metairie, Louisiana and a radio show, which Andrew appeared on in 1997.
In 1997, after playing a last minute impromptu vinyl DJ set on the main stage at State Palace Theater in New Orleans (courtesy of his friend Donnie), Andrew moved to Dallas, Texas, where he continued to work on his own tracks while spinning at local nightclubs, Club One and Club Clearview. Later in 1997, Andrew released his second release on his own label, Soul Sex Records, Out of the Shadows E.P., after releasing the first, First Light E.P., earlier in 1997 in New Orleans.
Andrew continued to spin at Club Clearview and various other nightclub gigs in Dallas until 2002, when Club Clearview, under new ownership, started eliminating resident DJ nights, including DJ Lost Boy’s Thursday Nights on the Roof Deck. In 2009, he moved to Seattle, to pursue career opportunities in software development with Amazon.
In 2018, Andrew’s job took him back to Texas, this time to Austin, and he was all but done with electronic music, were it not for a single fan in the UK, who contacted him online, asking if he still had any of his old vinyl releases, wanting to purchase copies. This singular fan inspired Andrew to modernize his studio and join the world of digital DJs, after filling the fan’s order and sending autographed copies of DJ Lost Boy vinyl from 1997 to the UK.
In 2020, the Covid 19 lockdown in combination with the newly created State Palace Theater Memories Facebook group, further inspired Andrew to focus on making tracks again, and the output of that effort is the first upcoming release on Soul Sex Records in 23 years, Perpetual House Machine, which was mastered by fellow Club Clearview DJ, Mark Rinewalt. Andrew discarded the name DJ Lost Boy, which served him well in his youth, for the name Andrew Paris DJ, and continues to go back to his Milwaukee apartment basement party roots, which were always about jackin’ house music.