His mixing style, which he developed as a club DJ in Jersey City, NJ, didn’t utilize quick cuts or scratching: he let the songs play for almost their entire length, and then beat-matched the gaps, breaks, or fades with the intros of his next chosen selections that had the same beats-per-minute count.

[5] “The Groove Boutique” began to generate media coverage for Gomez (and CD101.9), and became a top rated Saturday night program (8pm-midnight) in the New York market.

The album featured a merge of contemporary jazz and world music selections by such artists as Cooly’s Hot Box, Four80East, Acoustic Alchemy, Tom Scott, Les Nubians, and Sacred Spirit.

The CD included deep groove jazzy funk by such artists as Jimjam, Clan Greco, Ramsey Lewis, Slide Five, Soulive, Copa 7, The Headhunters, and range Factory.

The album also included the nu bossa track “Icy”, which Gomez co-produced with David Baron at Edison Studios in New York (“A treat.” – Allmusic;[9] “A funky, Latin-flavored little number.” – CD Universe;[10] “Amazing.” - Amazon[11]).

Gomez and Baron maintained the song’s original vocal and flute tracks and floated them over a new production that featured a four-piece jazz combo, which included drummer Jojo Mayer and vibraphonist Roy Ayers (“Never sounded better.” – The Couch Sessions;[13] “Lush, subtle.” – Billboard;[14] “Gomez and Baron absolutely FREAKED this song.” – Image Eye Nation[15]) ; "An unheralded gem."

In February 2022,[23] DJ Rafe Gomez launched a weekly show on TWITCH called DanceteriaREWIND that features music from the fabled New York City nightclub Danceteria that was popular in the 1980s.

[25] He then applied a little-known sales strategy that was successful for him when he appeared on QVC to his job search efforts, and he immediately began getting work as a copywriter and marketing consultant (which is what Gomez did prior to his DJ pursuits).

[28] Gomez works as a consultant, providing competitive differentiation, sales support media coverage, and executive thought leadership development services to companies around the world.