House Café Music

Vincenzo‘s serious interest in Music began in his early teenager days when he was engaged in Hip Hop and other styles of Black Music. Later, in the end of the 80 ́s when AcidHouse reached the Continent, he was infected by the sound and energy of this new type of club-music. His deejay career started with playing at small club and private parties, where not only his friends were convinced by his talents, so it didn’t take long time until his first resident engagement.

Vincenzo was early involved in Hamburg’s club scene, where he met Stefan Brügesch a.k.a. Steve Bug, who featured Vincenzo by getting him several DJ-gigs, e.g. at the party series ‚Reduced‘ at Hamburgs cult club Front.

Next to his DJ activities, Vincenzo starts producing his own tracks: In the end of 1995 he released his first Maxi single together with Sandro Catallo, ‚Brunchbox EP‘ on Raw Elements (Raw 603).

Together with Duffer Swift, he established the project Cascade, which had Releasesa on Stickman/Canada and on Stoopidness (PHONO-Sublabel). In addition to that Vincenzo releases a number of ‚Vincenzo‘ singles on Raw Elements and left Germany in the end of 1997 to spent a six months time in New York City, where he teamed up Alexi Delano (SVEK) to produce the first A.D.N.Y. & Vincenzo 12“.

1998 is the year of Vincenzo ́s solo album debut. 1-800-Vincenzo on Dessous Rec gains worldwide attention and establishes Vincenzo in the first league of international respected producers.

Two of the album tracks were released on seperate 12“es – „Peace Is Not The Word To Play“ incl. a remix by I: Cube and „King ́s Last Ride“ featuring a rework by Ian Pooley.

In summer 1999 Vincenzo and San Francisco House shooting star DJ Rasoul started their project „Days Drive By“ and Vincenzo also began to work with Nottingham’s John Buckby aka Schmoov as well as deejaying worldwide. In early summer of 2000 the first Dessous label compilation features a string of Vincenzo tracks, e.g. the cooperation with Rasoul, “Afterthoughts”.

In 2001 Vincenzo compiled and mixed the successful first ‚Strip Joint Grooves‘ Compilation. The great success underlined once more his DJ talent – more international bookings followed across Europe. For San Francisco‘s Transport Label he delivered the 2nd Satin Soul 12“ with Elmar Schubert while his ‚Different Cities, Different Songs‘ 12“ on Dessous became a strong club-hit in all premium house clubs worldwide.

After the great success of ‚Strip Joint Grooves Vol.1‘ the second volume mixed & compiled by Vincenzo was released in early 2002, which doesn‘t mean he forgot to focus on his own production work.
He finished the work on his 2nd album `Welcome To Zanarkand`‘ (release 10/02) and the first outtake single of the album ‚The Charmer‘ came out, as well as the Silver Network release ‚Snider & Satin Souls‘ together with Marc Schneider and Elmar Schubert.

Besides his remixes for labels such as Naked Music and !K7, his latest release on Dessous „Things Like That“ in collaboration with Steve Ferrand in summer 2005 gained loads of international respect and proved one more time that Vincenzo is always hip and know how to rock floors all over the world.

In fact, he has even recorded a track with porn star Terri Summers. Who we have never heard of….until now
(ahem).

Vincenzo made for House Cafe Music an amazing Remix for the Album 981 North

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