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DJ Disco Wiz and Grandmaster Caz
DJ Disco Wiz and Grandmaster Caz

DJ Disco Wiz and Grandmaster Caz

Visual image DJ Disco Wiz
Visual image Grandmaster Caz
Datec.1999
Mediumpaper (fiber product)
DimensionsOverall (HW): 10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (27.781 × 35.401 cm)
Credit LineGift of Luis Cedeno Experience Music Project permanent collection
Object number2000.34.2
Text Entries
DJ Disco Wiz (Luis Cedeño, b, 1961) is a DJ from the Bronx, NY. Disco Wiz is noted as being the first Latino DJ in Hip-Hop music and is known as DJ Louie Lou. Disco Wiz also worked with Grandmaster Caz throughout the mid to late 70s where he was credited for being the first DJ to create a "mixed plate" in 1977 when he and Grandmaster Caz, combined sound bites, special effects, and paused beats. 
Colored landscape photo of DJ Disco Wiz and Grandmaster Caz. 
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Disco Smash at The 462 Club with DJ Casanova Fly, The Disco Wiz and DJ Starsky, October 21, 1977
DJ Disco Wiz
Date: 1977
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 2002.396.46
DJ Casanova Fly, DJ Disco Wiz, DJ Kevin in performance at 462 Club, New York City, Friday, November 4, 1977
DJ Disco Wiz
Date: 1977
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 2002.396.68
Grandmaster Caz, Busy Bee, and DJ Tony Tone at the Disco Fever photo booth
Cold Crush Brothers
Date: 1980-1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.85
DJ Tony Tone, JDL and Grandmaster Caz at the Disco Fever Photo Booth
Cold Crush Brothers
Date: 1980-1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.84
Sha-Rock and Angie B. at Disco Fever
Disco Fever
Date: c. 1981
Medium: chromogenic color prints
Object number: 2001.400.4
The Brothers Disco: DJ Breakout, DJ Baron, the Funky 4 MCs, at Bronx H.S. of Science, Bronx, New York, NY, February 23, 1979
Brothers Disco
Date: 1979
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.123.24