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Whiskers is a Northern California electronic dance music duo consisting of Enrique Ramirez and Rad Pit. Now performing as Djs and Vjs, the pair originally came from different of musical flavors.

In the beginning of his early career, Enrique Ramirez was a backup keyboard player for such acts as Dexys Midnight Runners, The Sisters Of Mercy, Yoko Ono, Missing Persons, and Haircut 100. After 3 years of touring around as a successful backup keyboard player, Enrique’s expensive vices got him into some legal trouble, and he was deported back to the US in 1986.

During the 80’s, Rad Pit was a pornographic film actor, living in West Hollywood. During 8 long, hard, and sometimes, dark years as a porn star, Rad decided to call it quits to explore the in musician in him. (no pun intended) In 1989, he recorded a duet with Oran "Juice" Jones titled 12 Gauge. The Single sold loads in Austria, The Netherlands, France, and Japan, but was not well received state side. After a failed attempt in reinventing himself, Rad decided to move to Sacramento California to avoid the temptation of falling back into a porn acting career.

Enrique Ramirez and Rad Pit met at an electronics shop in Sacramento in 2008. Recognizing a mutual interest in dance music, they began to work on material together, and learned how to DJ as well. Being byproducts of a violent has-been, glamorous, sexaholic, drug fueled subculture, Enrique and Rad decided that it would be most fitting to dive into the techno/electrohaus/nu disco scene, where they both reside today….