Ricky Mawzlin is a DJ, event organizer, musician, and all-around music nerd from Pittsburgh. He started playing in indie/post-punk/electronic projects and promoting punk shows at a young age. After years of researching & writing about music scenes and amassing vast collections of tracks, he began DJing via his party “Total Trash” at a divey gay bar.
In 2017, due to his love of all things italo and disco, he co-created Jellyfish. He’s one half of Jellyfish: a duo that DJs & organizes traveling queer parties around the USA and abroad (with their home base still in Pittsburgh). Ricky’s sometimes-chaotic DJ style bounces between hi-NRG disco, to melodic techno, to sleazy house, to chugging italo, to dreamy shoegaze. Musical influence stems his travels along with the energy & community that the right dance floor can somehow magically manifest.
