Event Wizard™ Brought to you by DJ Wiz Hoffa
Build the Night Before the Night.
Map the room, read the crowd, lock the records that have to play — and Wiz gets the DNA of your event before he ever touches a crate.
Free · about 5–8 minutes · saved as you go
The Record — Press · Radio · Mixtape-Era Lineage
- The Source
- XXL Scratch
- Ozone
- MTV.com Mixtape Mondays
- AllHipHop.com
- Hip Hop Weekly
- Enveonline.com
- Times Union
- The Daily Gazette
- Xperience Monthly
- Hot 99.1
- RadioRadioX
- Faces of 518 Podcast
- 90.9 WCDB
- NoizeMob DJ's
- Justo's Mixtape All-Stars
- Team BackSpin
- DJ Juice
- Chill Will FTE
- Buck Wild
- Ron G
- D-Demo
- Kid Kapri
- The E Brothers
01What Wiz Does
The Room Starts Here.
Nightlife, corporate, private, community — five lanes, and every one of them books through the same simple request.
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Nightlife
Clubs, lounges, bars, and residencies — open-format control for mature rooms.
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Corporate & Public
Organized, appropriate, on time — entertainment that respects the occasion.
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Private Celebrations
Birthdays, anniversaries, milestones — upscale celebrations, built to order.
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Festivals & Community
Public stages, cultural programs, community events built for scale.
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Entertainment Support
Programming, talent coordination, music direction, brand development.
02Event Wizard™
Four Moves.
One Night Mapped.
Most people book a DJ and hope. The Event Wizard walks you through the night the way Wiz thinks about it — the room, the people in it, the records that have to play — and hands him a picture of your event before the first record is ever pulled.
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Map the Room
Venue, size, layout, sound, the hours you actually have. The night is shaped by the space before it is shaped by anything else.
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Read the Crowd
Who is standing there — ages, mix, what they came for. Thirty years of reading rooms starts with knowing whose room it is.
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Lock the Records
Genres, must-plays, and the ones that never get played. You name them once and they are locked in from the first request.
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Set the Energy Arc
Where the night opens, where it climbs, where it peaks, how it lands. Pacing is the whole job, and you get a say in it.
Open to anyone planning a night — no booking required first. Takes about 5–8 minutes, saves as you go, and you can stop and come back to it.
03The Story
Brooklyn-Born.
Albany-Proven.
Some DJs play records. Wiz Hoffa reads rooms. Three decades in the culture — from Brooklyn stages to radio airwaves to 518 rooms — taught him the difference between a playlist and a night.
Rhyming at nine. Cutting records by twelve. Beats at fifteen. In 2004 he founded NoizeMob DJ's — today an international family of 35+ DJs and producers, backed by a network of designers, promoters, journalists, and A&Rs. The rest is a long, loud legacy.
The Difference
Thirty years in music changes how you hear a crowd.
04Press & Accolades
On the Record.
- Justo Mixtape Award Winner
- S.E.A. Award Winner
- Hot 99.1 DJ of the Year Nominee
- Former Radio DJ at 90.9 WCDB
Named in
- Faces of 518 Podcast
- The Source Magazine
- XXL Scratch Magazine
- Hip Hop Weekly
- AllHipHop.com
- Enveonline.com
- MTV.com
- Times Union
- The Daily Gazette
- Xperience Monthly
05Music
Streaming Everywhere.
Production credits run from Mickey Factz to battle-rap royalty Jaz The Rapper. Today the focus is sharp: Hip Hop, Pop & R&B production and songwriting.
06Find Wiz
Recent Programming.
Real rooms. Real flyers. Straight from the 518.
Grown AF Friday
- Room
- Kuddy Lounge, Albany
- Address
- 997 Central Ave
- Night
- Every Friday · 9 PM – 3 AM
- Cover
- $10
- Sound
- 70s, 80s & 90s R&B classics and hip-hop hits
Every detail above is printed on the flyer itself — no stock photos, no stand-ins. The full archive, including the Washington Tavern takeover, lives on the events page.
07Booking
How Booking Works.
No instant checkout. No guesswork. A straight line from request to confirmed date.
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Submit
Send the request — date, venue, crowd, and the music direction you have in mind.
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Review
Wiz reviews every request personally and confirms availability and fit for your date.
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Consult
If the event calls for it, a consultation — then your quote or proposal.
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Confirm
A deposit locks the date. Every detail gets finalized together.
Experience. Energy. History. Let's Make It Epic.
Bring Wiz Into the Room.
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