DIEGO: HIS CREATIVE LANGUAGE

The Taste That Built Earthbound

INTERVIEW BY: EMILY ARAUZA

NOVEMBER 12th, 2025

There’s a calm confidence about Diego, the kind that comes from knowing exactly what inspires you and not apologizing for it. He talks about music, parties, and the worlds he builds inside Earthbound with an ease that makes everything feel intentional without ever feeling calculated. The references he pulls from aren’t trends but are the things that shaped him growing up, the visuals and sounds that still sit in his head, and he lets all of it spill into what he creates.

Spend a few minutes with him and you see how naturally it all connects. The first party he threw with friends wasn’t perfect, but it set the tone for everything that came after. They learned what structure needed to look like. They learned what chaos could teach them & kept the pieces that felt good.

Earthbound today feels like a world built from his taste, his influences, plus his sense of fun. Nothing about it tries too hard. He’s building what he wants to see, and people keep showing up because they can feel that.

Diego: “I’m Diego, I’m a creative in Houston. I’m a DJ and I run my own events but more than anything I am a producer.”

Emily Arauza: “Perfect. Tell me more about that. How old are you? When did you get started?”

D: “I’m 20, I got started with producing when I was 15 and I’ve been doing the dj/party stuff since my junior year of highschool. I started producing when I got my first laptop with a cracked version of fl studio. My cousin taught me how to DJ during junior year when he worked as a creative for a party group he was part of and we shortly threw our first party half way through senior year with my best friend.”

EA: “That first party sounds like a big step. What’s one lesson from that experience that’s stuck with you in how you produce or run events now?”

D: “A big lesson after the first event was that we had to be prepared for everything, we focused too much on the creative part and spreading the word and we didn't have security, door management, we had to get sound equipment the day of as well as lights, now we have an actual checklist which my best friend mostly takes care of while I focus on the creative side of things.”

EA: “Learning to balance the creative side with the practical side sounds like a big shift. How did that first chaotic experience shape the way you plan and execute events today?”

D: “Like I said we managed to keep this under control by having that role under one person instead of it being all over the place, yes I still help with the management as much as I can but my main focus in Earthbound is all the creative, we all still feed of each other's ideas and I still am pretty hands on with the practical stuff but each side is more controlled under others.”

EA: “But with each part of Earthbound more organized, does having that separation between creative and practical roles let you take bigger risks or?”

D: “I mean every party feels like a risk, the feel of earthbound and every concept is based purely on things I like, I mean the name itself comes from one of my favorite videogames and every flyer and video is based on a video game, a movie, or an anime I like.”

EA: “It sounds like Earthbound is very personal to you. Do you see that connection to your own interests as just staying true to yourself or does it shape how people experience the events too?”

D: “Absolutely, I believe that staying true to your creative mind and your interests and not caring about what people think about you is far more important than focusing on the corporate and business side of things. I feel like by having that mentality every project feels more genuine for the people that show up to it too. This also applies to my production style, every project has a vibe based on different pieces of media that I’m passionate about.”

EA: “When you pull from different pieces of media you’re passionate about, are you thinking more about recreating the feeling they give you, or reinterpreting them into something completely new?”

D: “Well pulling pieces from the media I’m passionate about just feels right. It fulfills me, the media I’ve consumed since I have memory has shaped my creative mind completely and I love producing djing and event planning. So putting it all together feels natural and genuine.”

EA: “I like how everything you do comes from a real place of passion. Who or what would you say has inspired your sound or creative direction the most?”

D: “My biggest inspiration in my sound and my creative direction has to be Logic, I discovered him in the early faze clan days when faze adapt and temper were doing trickshot compilations and including his music in them. From there everything related to music branched off from there. Another big inspiration of mine is Tainy, he has defined the current state of hispanic urban music and his style is definitely something that I’m heavily inspired from. I mean my producer/dj name comes from  Tainyscindependent album DATA, u can really see how much influence I've had from these guys, their albums The Incredible True Story and Data are my personal favorites.”

EA: “What’s it about their work or approach that resonates with you the most? Is it their sound, the storytelling, or how they’ve built their artistry overall?”

D: “Their music and their concepts are some of my personal favorites, and their interest in sci-fi concepts and all the media that I'm into is also represented in their albums heavily.”

EA: “That connection makes a lot of sense. You can see how that kind of world-building ties into what you’re creating too. Looking ahead, I’d like to ask you: what’s the bigger vision for everything you’re doing? Like the music, the events, the creative direction as a whole?”

D: “Well there’s so much going on everything is moving so fast. Earthbound started as a passion project and it led to so many connections, opportunities and friendships. I really want it to become a festival for music lovers at some point with my twist of whatever concept I’m feeling at the time, something huge like Rolling Loud or Tomorrowland mixed with whatever videogame or anime I want to base it off of. As for music, I want to become a producer and live off what I love doing. I've been treating production as a hobby that takes up most of my time but I have to get serious about it soon. Overall I want to keep using my creativity to make a living from what I like doing, I have too many ideas for them to just not be executed. I eventually want to become a movie director! A big goal of mine.”

EA: “I love that, it sounds like you’re building something that comes from drive and adoration but has the potential to grow into something huge. My final question is, what advice would you give to other young creatives trying to carve out their own lane the way you have?”

D: “My best advice is do what you want to do, and forget the money. And whatever it is that you really like doing doesn't matter what it is, someone is interested in everything. Always ask yourself "what do I desire?"”