We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Quentin Forbes a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Quentin, thanks for joining us today. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

I started street promoting long before I started DJing. I was working for Ultra Music Festival and traveling for the show cross promoting at other festivals. I got into it right at the EDM boom era between 2012-2015.

It was a great time and I learned a lot about the industry at that time. I picked up DJing halfway and started writing my own side path all while promoting.

After the mess of 2020 I decided that I had the tools to like…. actually give a shit about what I wanted out of DJing and I pushed from there.

Quentin, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Aight so Im also simple nerd loser who got too into anime and video games. A lot of what ‘Juno’ is for me is inspired by Toonami, PS2 and various animes.

My favorite game as a kid was SSX: Tricky, it’s this baller snowboarding game that had a banger soundtrack full of Breaks, House, Drum and Bass, and all that other good shit. A lot of games were built like that, that’s kinda what Pioneered the sound really.

My original DJ name was ‘Kaiju’ because I fucking love Godzilla movies but I felt like that wasn’t really me as the DJ persona, I was trying to be super edgy and play heavy music but that wasn’t giving honestly and I’m too goofy for that lol, I didn’t feel like myself. The name ‘Juno’ came to me in a dream and with the rebrand of persona came like… truth? I got booked more, I played what I want and ENJOYED it again.

Juno is generally a multi-genre act but it’s mostly just fun house music. The image is that of space piracy and sci fi, something like Guardians Of The Galaxy. I love it and I’ll never look back on it.

I personally love my image as a DJ because I love doing it all. Raves, Clubs, Festivals, Art Shows, Fashon shows. All my talents and vibes are geared for it all. We keep it trill we keep ot funky. I actually WANT to do more art shows and fashion shows too.

Im also a hypeman and host so I also have done those a lot in the past and it helps in most places. I’ve had a long journey and… Im proud if it. Im excited to see where it goes.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Ah man, you just gatta keep going. That’s one thing I don’t like lying about. I feel like so many DJs act too cool to admit shit. I have bad anxiety and all kinds if mental health problems but once I’m DJing it’s all gone. You gatta find that thing that takes it all away in your craft.

I just had the most booked spring ever leading into playing a b3b at Ultra Music Festival. Yea I was hype and proud of myself and my family and support system were awesome but yall don’t think I wasnt getting beat up by life stuff?

Loss, stress. Grief, social issues. It never stops but you gatta stay positive and you gatta keep going. Open up. Do not be afraid to open up because you can’t hold that kind of shit. Let it go and express it in your art. It helps.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

Honestly the end goal of myself is to own a Venue one day. Like a banger one that people are gonna talk about forever. Leaving a footprint and all that. Let it run, get old, leave it to hopefully my kids and that’s it lol.

Outside of that I just wanna be true to myself and people. I wanna stay righteous and stand by my community and promote positivity. I wanna hope I can help keep morale high for generations.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @SpaceLordJuno
• Twitter: @SpaceLordJuno
• Other: Bluesky: @SpaceLordJuno

Image Credits

@SpeedyPhoto
@TheGr8Chikin