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13/05/2025
Smooth vibes incoming
Join us and ease into the weekend with .dj spinning silky-smooth tunes this Friday, May 16.
Let the music flow, the cocktails pour, and the night take over.
Come for some delicious sunset cocktails accompanied by some sweet tunes ☀️ … and did I mention anything about those yummy tapas????
24/10/2023
If you are in Queenstown this coming Saturday come and check out for some yummy Tapas, world class cocktails and some fine tunes ☀️
From 4 pm 🎶 till….
27/06/2023
Sunset tunes with Slamy DJ followed by live band.
Some fine tunes, drinks and yummy local seafood food right on the beach ...
Can't actually get much better than this !☀️🎸🪩
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The truth is that it started the other way around when I was little. At the age of 7 my life changes drastically and takes me from a beautiful small town in the middle of the Italian Dolomites to one of the most modern cities in Germany at the time. Hannover was new, exciting and very different from what I knew. One of the the things I liked the most was that my parents were taking me to this tradition called “Früschoppen”. The concept was that on Sunday mornings we would go out for brunch to places with live Jazz music. Amazing atmosphere with second hand stalls, food stalls...and really happy vibes. At the same time I started discovering my grandma’s vinyl collection and being allowed to play her records I was exploring many more different styles of music. My nan would take me to the Opera house and I remember being one of the youngest people, all dressed up and random people finding it so amazing that I’d be there following without being distracted.
Then early teens, from Boney M to Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, KISS trying to find my way in the musical world.
At 13 we move to Brussels. A complete new, very international environment. Those were the years were the first video clips appeared on TV. Ad Visser - Top of the pops was this most famous show nobody my age would miss and of course we all got sucked in to the commercial music machine. I must admit that those were great times! The first house parties we were allowed to have. That all started after the cult movie La Boum (English title: The Party or Ready for Love) is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Sophie Marceau, appearing in her film début.
My parents at that time would rent vinyls and record them onto cassettes/tapes. In the car during our many trips to explore the surrounding countries we’d listen for hours to those who made the Jazz history.
Many years later I find myself based near Milan working night shifts as an air defence controller in the Italian army. A way of keeping awake during those long night shifts was listening to the radio. There were 3 radio stations at the time who really were exploring non commercial tunes I had never heard. My interest started drifting away from anything commercial and for my friends at the time I was turning into a musical weirdo. Jazz and even stranger music made me tick. Living close to Milan gave me the opportunity to feed my thirst of music given the world class live performances on offer. Some of the most impressive where artists such as Paco de Lucia, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and less know international acts such as Les Negresses Vertes from France and many others.
Another moment which has influenced strongly has been my first significant overseas trip to Brazil. How not to fall for that variety and deepness of sounds constantly present in every moment of the day and the night. Brazilian vibes are forever! No other music has the power of taking me on a musical trip as Brazilian/Latin American vibes.
In the nineties my life takes me to Mexico where I get introduced to the electronic music scene. At first I didn't really like it ... until my first rave on the beach... then my second....and so on... My new friends back then were all DJ’s from Mexico and Germany and all of a sudden I found myself involved collaborating in promoting a Techno Club in Playa del Carmen, Mexico...
A new world opened up...
Music has always been part of my life with the regret of not having taken the opportunity to learn an instrument.
Amazing how often what we do is shaped/influenced by people who cross our paths. Before leaving Italy I had the privilege of meeting and flatting with a Spanish-World Music DJ “Lord Sassafras”. This meeting has coincided with me purchasing my first ever laptop computer. Javier “LS” has most generously offered to gift me a copy of his whole music library. Theses have been the first music files I ever uploaded and still to today is part of the most precious non commercial sound I own.
In New Zealand other encounters with people who were interested in “non mainstream” music have little by little brought me closer to sharing what my musical backpack contained with the public. For many years I have been given the privilege of curating and playing the background music for the Italian Festival in Auckland which brings together up to 20k people for food, music and culture.
Time goes by fast and we get older... My 50th birthday arrives and the craziest idea ever is born: Attending Burning Man in the desert of Nevada and the start of a new chapter in my love for music.
