Franki Pjetar Luca Juncaj was raised in Hamtramck, Michigan, a city within the Detroit borders that is heavily populated by immigrants from Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. He initially started to DJ under his own name before his friend DJ Bone introduced him to the Underground Resistance collective and Submerge distribution company, and he quickly became part of the family. UR co-founder Mad Mike Banks decided that Juncaj needed a DJ name, so Juncaj became known as DJ 3000, in honor of the street address of UR's Detroit headquarters, which had just relocated. DJ 3000's first release was 2002's Somewhere in Detroit Mix Series, Vol. 1, released by DJ Assault's Submerge-distributed Electrofunk Records. Several other Submerge-issued mixes followed, and Juncaj released his own productions through his Motech label, starting with the 2003 EP Red Line. DJ 3000 appeared on UR's 2005 compilation Interstellar Fugitives 2: Destruction of Order, and he was responsible for the UR remix of Depeche Mode's "People Are People" in 2006. His debut album, Migration, arrived that year, followed by Blood and Honey in 2007. Ursula Rucker guested on the single "My Sunday Afternoon," and other tracks featured UR's Gerald Mitchell and Diametric.
DJ 3000's third album, Galactic Caravan, appeared in 2009, followed by an extensive remix collection. Juncaj released the album Invisible Moods under his own name in 2011. 10 Years of Motech (The Remixes) appeared in 2012. DJ 3000's full-length Sälis was released in 2013, and Besa followed in 2014. He continued releasing singles and EPs, mainly on Motech, and 2020's Spectrum, Vol. 1 and 2 gathered tracks which first appeared on other labels. He remained busy with further EPs such as 2021's Cadence and 2022's Mashallah. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi