Onionz

Onionz, born Andrew Venegas in 1970 in Bayside, Queens, New York City of German 69%, Native 29% descent, is an American techno DJ, musician, producer who has been on the forefront of technology as a sales and business developer on Silicon Alley in New York with Rudina Seseri, and Mike Brown of aol, for creatives, media, that morphed into plant based fuels, utilities, Graphene supply chain and building materials.

The native New Yorker is known for his many contributions to Electronic Music, and more specifically, his unique signature sound. After working at the #1 record importer in America he was part of the Apple Logic testing team for 21 years. From there a new DJ environment was born called EDM. As a born drummer and on the stage when he was 3 passing through the drumming rituals legends provide. His teachers were Candido Camero, Steve Berrios, Greg D’Angelo of Anthrax and White Lion.

His family has been in New York for over 150 years and in the music industry since the 1940s. His brother an inspiration to Andrew through his paintings and traveling together. His father Victor is an American success story who was stationed in the military in Germany in the early 1900s and met his mother Joy soon after his return. Victor went on to play for Mongo Santamaria, and in The New York Philharmonic under John Schaefer https://www.isbworldoffice.com/in-memory.asp A woodsman from the Alfonso Vavarrah group who built basses and was a teacher for many Grammy nominated bass players and world renowned musicians. Andrew’s grandfather Jack was the electrical installation group who wired Lincoln Square, Lincoln Center and Avery Fischer Hall, his father played bass for The Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera, Onionz Dj’d at Lincoln Square at Essence 3.

Andrew followed his father's footsteps. In 2002, he was nominated for Billboard Magazine’s DanceStar USA Awards in the Best Breakthrough DJ category.^[1] Onionz' earliest musical influence was his family. As a youth, Onionz gained further musical inspiration from David Mancuso (The Loft NYC creator), DJ/producer duo The Latin Rascals. By mid-1982, Onionz began mixing together early styles of Hip hop, Breakbeat, and Disco records while DJing local NYC venues like The Irish Cottage in Woodside, New York.

Over the last 38 years Onionz has toured and headlined premier dance music festivals and events throughout 45 states within the US and 38 countries abroad. Onionz has held residency at celebrated dance venues around the world.

Within the past 38 years, Onionz has contributed to both house music and techno music as a DJ with The Orb, Michael Marciano, Barry Weaver, DjThree, Josh Wink, and Darren Emerson, Sven Vath. original productions and remixes to numerous dance music artists & record label as Slam, Carl Cox, Warner Music/Rhino Records, Om Records, Defected Records, Champion Records, and Ibadan Records. Additionally, he produced commissioned remixes for many influential dance music artists including Carl Cox, Robin S #1 hit "Show Me Love", Roy Ayers, Robert Owens, and Sandy B Billboard #1 "Make My World Go Round". In 1994, he founded his record label Electrik Soul Recordings https://electriksouljahs.bandcamp.com/music Electrik Soul has added to the success of Kaskade, Moby, Dubtribe, Yousef, Tony Senghore, Leo Young Eli Escobar, Wally Callerio, Vitamin D.

During the beginning of the dot.com time period in Silicon Valley Andrew was one of the entertainers responsible for inspiring the emerging technology industry on their off nights and weekends. From the EndUp to Djing on the 4th of July at the Grateful Dead farms just like his father who played at The Filmore in San Francisco with Jimi Hendrix and Santana a stage was set for a bright future.

Onionz took off into Agriculture technology under Michael Jason Soares Agriculture company. Created renewable record sleeves, and became part of several music and technology acquisitions. Going back to school for Graphene and Green Charcoal Andrew has designed the future of music and AI for analog musicians to be protected inside of urban cities.

He remains an active music maker as a drummer, and still travels from time to time for work throughout the world.^[2] He has an established production catalog of 150+ original music tracks and remixes which continues to grow.^[3] Some of the most notable House and Techno DJ's of today and yesterday regularly incorporate his music into their DJ sets.

During 2016 and 2017 Onionz wrote his first film score as musical director for the short film created by Rosa Costanza called "Xing" Onionz lead and introduced the Xing Film team to the top echelon of Electronic Music using his 38 years of relationship building. The film won its way to 18 film festivals and two awards including a screening at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

Andrew Venegas Onionz is the longest standing techno DJ from Queens, New York, who is part of a small group of three Onionz, Joey Beltram and Omar Santana who created an opportunity in their hometown where the average salary for a DJ is $153,000 for the next generation.

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