Originally from Brooklyn, Charles Hampton Brown moved to Barcelona in 2000 where he took to the music scene seriously. Prior to that, in the 90s, to honor his love for music while working in the fashion industry, Charles experimented with music by remixing music for restaurants and a few DJ stints for Vandaam Milk bar and Angel .
It was in Barcelona when Charles, along with two friends, Kind Bud and Howard Perry formed the group East Coast Syndicate; Charles Hampton Brown representing Brooklyn, Kind Bud hailing from Boston, and Perry from Washington DC. Originally a DJ trio, ECS was created on the streets of Barcelona in the Raval neighborhood while spinning at an outdoor market place during the Spring of 2004. Soon after realizing they were onto something big, ECS founded the invite-only underground party called Apartment 6. Located in the heart of the Raval in Charles’s store- front apartment, Apt 6 soon became the hottest Saturday night private party in Barcelona .