8| Superstar Recording Artist & Global Entrepreneur DJ Chozie Ma

DJ Chozie Ma is the top selling EDM artist in China and Taiwan.

Chozie, an Australian by birth, has spent over 22 years in Beijing, building the EDM scene from scratch, beginning with clubs and albums, as well as partnering with the man behind the music at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, to VVIP travel experiences, interactive domes, and organic skincare line Greenerways Organic.

Show Notes

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"One Night in Beijing" (feat. Peyton) Video

Theme music by: Ruel Morales

Audio Transcript

Brian Schoenborn  0:01  

Hello, hello. Hey everybody. Our guest today is, he’s had a pretty epic life. Let’s put it that way. Truly a man of many hats from being the top selling electronic music DJ in both Taiwan and China, to owning some of the top clubs in Asia, as well as an expert, top of his game with vvip experiences. We’re going to get into all of that stuff, as well as some other stuff that he’s got going on. This dude’s got so much stuff happening. It’s kind of hard to wrap our arms around all of it. We’re going to dive in as much as we can. So give it up for my friend, Chozie Ma.

Brian Schoenborn  0:41  

My name is Brian Schoenborn. I’m an explorer of people, places and culture. In my travels, spanning over 20 countries across four continents, I’ve had the pleasure of engaging in authentic conversations with amazingly interesting people. These are their stories, on location and unfiltered. Presented by 8B Media, this is Half the City.

Chozie Ma  1:09  

What’s up? How you doing? 

Brian Schoenborn  1:11  

Good, man. How are you? 

Chozie Ma  1:12  

Happy to be here in LA.

Brian Schoenborn  1:13  

Dude, I’m so happy to see you, man. It’s been it’s been a minute, man. 

Chozie Ma  1:16  

Yea, totally. 

Brian Schoenborn  1:17  

Yeah. So guys, so first, let me take it back. We’re having a little bit of technical difficulties. We’re going mano today. We’re improvising, adapting and overcoming. My, one of my dongles for my mic broke. So we’ve got one mic instead of two. No big deal. We just fucking roll with it. Right? So you might be hearing some background noise and stuff like that some cars going by or whatever, here and there. We’re actually on location in Venice, Venice Beach, California. We’re actually 100 yards from the beach. 

Chozie Ma  1:42  

You can see the beach. 

Brian Schoenborn  1:43  

You can see the beach. 

Chozie Ma  1:44  

Yeah, it’s sweet.

Brian Schoenborn  1:45  

We’re right here. Chozie’s in LA for business. 

Chozie Ma  1:50  

Business and play. 

Brian Schoenborn  1:51  

It just so happened that Chozie saw one of the first episodes out and I’m like, dude, I haven’t seen I haven’t talked to this guy like a year and I’m like, and he’s like, yo, fuckin A. He liked it on my WeChat the Chinese social media, Chinese Facebook, whatever you wanna call it, like, dude, let’s do this. 

Chozie Ma  2:05  

Yeah. 

Brian Schoenborn  2:05  

And he’s like, yeah. And then he messaged me, he’s like, Yo, I’m in Venice doing so