Craze is Arist Delgado, a Nicaraguan-born, Miami-based DJ and producer who is one of the most decorated turntablists alive - he won the DMC World DJ Championship three years running from 1998 to 2000, the first solo DJ to take the title three consecutive times. He is a scratch DJ first and a genre tourist second, moving between hip-hop, Miami bass, breaks, trap and drum and bass, and he co-founded Slow Roast Records with Kill The Noise after a stint as Kanye West's tour DJ. He still puts out routine videos rather than coasting on the trophies. For a PNW crowd the draw is technical: this is a hands-on battle DJ sharing the Substation and The Den bills with Dieselboy, so expect fast cutting and heavy drum and bass rather than a laptop set.
Popularity
We couldn't confidently match Craze to an artist in MusicBrainz, so we won't put a number on them — a score taken from the wrong artist is worse than none.
How this is measured
An absolute, national (US) measure — not a ranking against the other artists on this site. We take the strongest of three open signals: ListenBrainz listens, English Wikipedia pageviews, and the number of Wikipedia language editions that have an article. The strongest one wins, so a signal we couldn't read never drags the result down. Bucket 1 means measured and small. Unrated never means small — it means we don't have the numbers.
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Top songs
No confirmed track list for Craze yet — the search links above will find their catalogue in the meantime.
Upcoming shows
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What listeners say SAMPLE DATA
No usable body of audience opinion was reachable for Craze. What exists is reputational rather than evaluative: interviews and gear-brand artist pages that recite the DMC titles and call him a turntablist legend, plus a 2024 SPIN feature on his 'Tablism' routine video. Those are press positioning and profile pieces, not reviews of a set someone actually attended, and no accessible source carries recurring attendee feedback or criticism. Treat this rating as placeholder sample data rather than a real reading.
Gathered 2026-08-23 (high confidence) from musicbrainz.org, en.wikipedia.org, open.spotify.com, spin.com, rane.com, https://www.deezer.com search API — artist image via exact case-insensitive name match, highest fan count