Biography

Based in San Francisco, Selino Valdes is a producer/DJ who has effectively navigated the underground and mainstream club scenes with his unique combination of Dirty House, bizarre Electro, and Hip-Hop flavors. Born in Los Angeles, California, Selino’s first exposure to music making came in High School when he joined a friend in a rag tag new wave band playing bass guitar. Events continued and Selino soon found himself programming instruments in an electronic music studio put together at Glide Memorial Church in the early nineties.

As time passed Selino Valdes began formulating remixes for Bjork’s “Bachelorette” and Craig “David’s Fill Me In” from the PHONYC music label in San Francisco. It was there that he met and joined forces with Kim Anne Foxman (who would later go on to become a founding member of Hercules and the Love Affair) to form the Toobit music project. Toobit left a mark on the fabric of San Francisco’s underground scene with a handful of live performances at places like 111 Minna and Club Six along with a series of EP and single releases.

With the breakup of Toobit and the fall of the now infamous Nemesis Music Distribution Selino Valdes has returned to production with a new series of concept recordings including the hyper-reality pimp known as Pinky Ring.