DJ Olive

Ever since emerging from Brooklyn with his band WE™ in the mid '90's, DJ Olive has been dropping his under-the-radar original Brooklyn dub around the world.

Originally studying painting at SUNY Purchase, his installation work with underground warehouse art collectives in then undiscovered Williamsburg developed to the point where Olive has twice been included at the Whitney Biennial and at the Venice Biennale.

As an important player in the chillout scenes of early New York rave culture, Olive’s versatility also got him gigs collaborating with Kim Gordon, Alan Vega (Suicide), Mediski Martin and Wood, and many in the downtown experimental Jazz scene that centered around the Knitting Factory.

"The term illbient was born as DJ Olive relates... I said as a joke that's illbient meaning sick." Illbient, Jana Martin, The Village Voice