The name DJ Nick Cohen pops up quite frequently among a certain hipster crowd in New York. That would be the young privileged few that like Nick may have been reared on the Upper East side, but have since branched out to say, all the artsy, indie type areas of the city. A product of prep school like fellow DJs Mark Ronson, Stretch Armstrong, etc. young Nick Cohen, from a more recent perspective, manages to remain in touch with what the masses want to hear.

At 23, Mr. Cohen wears many hats, one of which is as Designer/Co-Founder of Upper Echelon Shoes (UES), a shoe company founded with longtime friend Seth Campbell, and the other of course is as a DJ. So how does this hipster Vassar College grad get down? Well in the shortest of time, he has progressed from playing classics, old-school, and contemporary hip-hop. "As with all things, my mustical taste evolved to a place where it is not important to me to stay within a genre, but rather to experience all of them and focus my energy on making the crowd dance, whether Paul Simon "You Can Call Me Al", A Rihanna track, Miriam Makeba "Pata Pata", Jay Z, or The Virgins "Rich Girl" is playing, my object is to extract as much energy out of every room I play in."

Currently, Mr. Cohen's residencies include spinning at the coveted 1 Oak, Upstairs, Beatrice Inn, Bungalow 8, and Marquee, among others. While corporate clients are increasing in droves and include: Sotheby's, Red Bull, GQ, Alice & Olivia, Blue & Cream, etc. Advice for up and coming DJs is to be humble, focus on the room you are in, be confident and don't be afraid to take chances when you play...