Founder Statement
I’ve never believed in staying in one lane. I believe in creating new ones.
I’m Chazz “Fiyastarta” Padilla, Founder & CEO of The Epicenter Co. For more than three decades, I’ve built my career at the intersection of music, culture, and entrepreneurship, moving from West Coast Hip-Hop and Chicano Rap to Billboard-charting House music, Latin and electronic music, television, advertising, and ultimately Hollywood’s trailer and cinematic music industry.
What began as a personal creative vision became Epicenter Music, and ultimately The Epicenter Co., encompassing Epicenter Music, Epicenter Trailer Music, Deranged Muzik, and Epicenter Production Music. Along the way, I've built music for artists, brands, television, sports, film, advertising, and some of Hollywood's biggest cinematic campaigns, while creating opportunities for the artists, composers, producers, and creators around me.
My mission has always been bigger than making music. It’s about creating music that moves people, building opportunities, connecting cultures, and taking music into places it hasn’t been before.
Today, I continue to push that vision forward across Hollywood and the global entertainment industry, while helping talented creators take their work to new levels and giving them the platform, opportunities, and exposure to build meaningful careers. I believe true success isn’t measured only by what you accomplish yourself, but by the opportunities you create for others and the mark you leave behind.
My goal isn’t simply to build a successful company. It’s to build something that changes the game, opens doors for the next generation, and continues creating opportunities long after I’m gone.
Music has been my craft.
Innovation has been my career.
Building what comes next is my mission.
FIYASTARTA EPIC TRAILER MUSIC
THE GOLDEN TRAILER AWARDS GTA25 WINNER'S REEL - MAY 2026
TRAILER TRACK: "NEMESIS" BY FIYASTARTA - TRAILER EDITOR: BRENDAN AMORUSO
FIYASTARTA HORROR TRAILER MUSIC
"THE BACKROOMS" (A24 Films) | OFFICIAL FINAL TRAILER
FEATURING FIYASTARTA'S HORROR TRAILER TRACK, "DISCORDIA"
FIYASTARTA CINEMATIC TRAILER MUSIC
"ENOLA HOLMES 3" (NETFLIX Films) | OFFICIAL TEASER
FEATURING FIYASTARTA'S REIMAGINING OF "NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN"
FIYASTARTA MUSIC PRODUCTIONS
"PARA MI GENTE" BY NEGROS DE LA RAZA | OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
NEGROS DE LA RAZA IS: SEN DOG (CYPRESS HILL) - KEMO THE BLAXICAN (DELINQUENT HABITS)
FIYASTARTA (MUSIC PRODUCER)
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FIYASTARTA MUSIC FOR FILM, TV, & ADS
FIYASTARTA'S PRODUCTION MUSIC SIZZLE REEL - FEATURING HIS DIVERSITY IN MANY GENRES (HIP-HOP, POP, EDM, LATIN, EPIC CINEMATIC, & HORROR)
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CHAZZ "FIYASTARTA" PADILLA
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WHEN SIGNED TO CLIVE DAVIS' ARISTA RECORDS!
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VISIONARY ENTREPRENEUR MEN'S EDITION!
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Biography
Brian Padilla, professionally known as Chazz “Fiyastarta” Padilla, is an award-winning producer, composer, music executive, entrepreneur, and Billboard-charting recording artist whose career spans more than three decades across Hip-Hop, Latin music, electronic music, horror, television, advertising, and cinematic music. His creative vision has helped push the evolution of modern horror and trailer music while continually taking his sound into new territory.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Chazz entered the music industry as a teenager during the rise of West Coast Hip-Hop and Chicano Rap. Signed to Thump Records, he quickly became both an artist and sought-after producer, eventually serving as the in-house Hip-Hop producer for Long Beach's legendary Da Drop Shop. His early production work included Dove Shack, helping bring the group to the attention of Warren G and contributing to their path toward mainstream success.
As the producer and founding member of Hispanic MCs, Chazz performed on hundreds of stages nationwide, sharing the stage with artists including Kid Frost, Lighter Shade of Brown, War, Coolio, Tower of Power, Brenton Wood, Stacey Q, Tierra, and many others. Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he also participated in a collaborative recording led by Kid Frost and involving legendary musician Rick James, created as a message of unity and healing for Los Angeles.
As his reputation as a producer grew, Chazz worked with record labels and artists across the country, including Uptown Records, whose operations were based in Houston, Texas. During this period, he produced Lil' Rob and created his groundbreaking PHATT TRAXX project, which became what he considers the first-ever Hip-Hop television infomercial. Featuring Lil' Rob and Los Angeles radio personality Catt Dogg of 92.3 The Beat, the program offered aspiring artists the opportunity to purchase professional tracks, record over them, and compete for an opportunity to earn a record deal with Epicenter Music.
At 22, Chazz's self-produced “A Mover La Colita” reached #5 on the Billboard Dance Charts, earning releases through Arista and Logic Records and featuring remixes by legendary producers Armand Van Helden and DJ Sneak. He became an early pioneer of Los Angeles' Hard House movement and began using Epicenter Music as the name behind his productions.
From there, Chazz expanded from records and live performance into television, advertising, sports, film, and commercial music licensing. His music has been featured in campaigns for major brands including Xfinity, Kohl's, Google, Chase Bank, including a commercial featuring Kevin Hart, and BMW. His catalog has appeared in television series including Gen V, Mayor of Kingstown, The Traitors, Snowfall, All American, Batwoman, MacGyver, and NCIS, among many others.
His work has also reached major Latin and international audiences. Chazz has created music and trailers for projects including Maradona and Mi Selección Colombia for Prime Video, as well as LOL: Last One Laughing and De Viaje con los Derbez. His catalog has been licensed internationally across Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean film and television, supported by Epicenter's global sub-publishing network.
Today, Chazz is the Founder & CEO of The Epicenter Co., encompassing Epicenter Music, Epicenter Trailer Music, Deranged Muzik, and Epicenter Production Music. What began as a one-man operation has evolved into an international music company creating and licensing music across film, television, streaming, advertising, sports, trailers, and entertainment.
Through Epicenter Trailer Music, Chazz has built a leading presence in Hollywood's trailer industry and developed direct creative relationships with major entertainment companies including Universal, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Disney, Searchlight, A24, Blumhouse, Lionsgate, Neon, Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, FX, Peacock, Shudder, IFC Films, Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures, and Revolt.
Through these relationships, Epicenter's music has appeared in major campaigns including The Backrooms, Enola Holmes 3, Scary Movie 6, Clayface, Undertone, Ready or Not 2, Stranger Things, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Bring Her Back, Primate, Wolf Man, Together, Gran Turismo, and Resurrection, among many others. Chazz has also served as Music Director for the Golden Trailer Awards and earned a World Trailer Award for Best North American Sound Design/Trailer Music for Resurrection.
Under Chazz's creative direction, Deranged Muzik has become a distinctive force in modern horror trailer music, while Epicenter Production Music has expanded its extensive catalog into television, advertising, sports, digital media, brands, and other content platforms.
But Chazz's career has never been solely about his own records or placements. He has developed artists, helped composers and producers take their work to new levels, created opportunities for emerging talent, and built platforms that allow other creators to reach audiences and opportunities they might not otherwise have had.
Today, he is reconnecting with his Los Angeles Latin and Hip-Hop roots through Negros de La Raza, alongside Sen Dog of Cypress Hill and Kemo the Blaxican of Delinquent Habits, bringing decades of experience as a producer, artist, and music entrepreneur into a new generation of Latin Hip-Hop.
Chazz's entrepreneurial vision has also earned recognition in his adopted home of Houston, Texas. The Woodlands City Lifestyle Magazine selected him as one of four featured “Visionary Men,” highlighting his entrepreneurial journey, ambition, work ethic, and creative vision.
Chazz continues expanding The Epicenter Co. and its extensive music catalog across entertainment, advertising, television, sports, Hispanic media, and the global entertainment industry.
His story is one of constant reinvention: from Los Angeles Hip-Hop to Billboard-charting House music, from Latin and Reggaeton to television and advertising, from international music licensing to Hollywood's biggest cinematic campaigns.
Remarkably, much of this growth has been built as a one-man creative enterprise, with Chazz personally driving the company's creative vision, production, industry relationships, and expansion.
He has never stayed in one lane.
He built new ones.
