Born in San Francisco, California, Neil has a lifelong love of all music genres and other forms of entertainment. He received his first professional musical instrument at age four.

At age six he got his first electronic keyboard. By age twelve he was hooked on house music and made his first attempts at producing at age 16. Graduate of the DJ4Life Academy owned and taught by Sasha Tosic (DJ Tallsasha).

Neil is an up and coming young star in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has already performed numerous times in some of San Francisco's top nightclubs and lounges such as: Supperclub, Mighty, Azul, 330 Ritch Street, Triple Crown and Shine. He is now looking forward to playing in clubs and festivals in other cities throughout the world. He rang in 2010 with a rockin’ set at Supperclub. 

Neil knows how to play to a crowd and keep them dancing. Though his favorite set is a Deep Soulful one, he also loves Tribal, Funk, Trance and other genres.  If it's good music, he loves it.

His mixes are featured on/in the Ibiza Voice, World DJ Radio, 1 Club.FM, Choons and other radio stations and sites.  A complete set of his mixes to date (new ones are forthcoming) are hosted on Soundcloud.  You can listen to them all by going to http://soundcloud.com/neilruff or listen to a trance/progressive mix here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/69058856b77176bb/

or a funky, chunky mix here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/70635177501fbaf3/