Omid Nourizadeh (Persian: امید نوری‌زاده), better known as Omid 16B or 16B, is a British-Iranian electronic music producer/composer and DJ based in London. He is considered one of the creators of the tech house genre. == Biography == Omid's father, Alireza Nourizadeh, and his mother both originate from Iran but raised Omid in Putney, London. He grew up listening to rock music, and listed Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young and the Cure among his favourite artists – after Robert Smith became... [more on Wikipedia]