DJ Carlito
“For more than 25 years I have stayed underground, touching the musical surface from time to time,” says DJ Carlito. “It started with hip hop, and by the time I got to hip house and acid house, the house virus had infected me. Early on, I was inspired by the few good DJs who really knew what was going on, peeps like DJ KC The Funkaholic, DJ Cassie 6, DJ Dr Tjong and DJ Zki aka Good Men aka Rene from Gaston.” A true player with an allround vision, DJ Carlito moved to Amsterdam where those DJs became his colleagues in a club called Club Havana. At 17, DJ Carlito (then DJ Carlos) was the youngest DJ ever to infiltrate the Amsterdam club scene.
Residencies: During the 1990’s DJ Carlito had residencies or played in the most famous clubs in Amsterdam: Club Havana, Richter, RoXY, It, Paradiso, Sinners in Heaven, Melkweg, and The Escape. Carlos played alongside DJs like Armand van Helden, Derek Carter, Ricky Montenari, Alton Miller, Mustapha, and a lot of national heroes like Graham B, Johnson Frankie D, Brian S, Chaos and L-Dopa, Roog and Erik E, Don Diablo, Joost van Bellen, Ronny Hammond, Ritzy Lee, Urvinson, Marcello, Dimitri, Benny Rodrigues, and Ron van Zelst. “This list goes on and on, so for those who are not mentioned: U KNOW WHO U ARE !!!”
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Unique sound: In 2000, DJ Carlito got busy with a new sound called UK Garage, which later became 2 Step. DJ Carlito became a key player and organized parties playing with people like Afrika Bambaataa, MJ Cole, Zed Bias, Artful Dodger, Craig David, Stanton Warriors, The Streets, Dee Kline, Femme Fatale, and Ian Pooley just to name a few. “My sound mixes UK Garage / 2 Step with old school up-tempo hip hop and old school English break beat to spice it up a bit,” says DJ Carlito. “With all the sounds I mix, I refuse to narrow my vision. I combine old and new music. I use music that I believe in and that moves me.”
Ever-exciting: In 2002, DJ Carlito teamed up with his brother, DJ Urvinson (DJ / remixer / songwriter / producer), to launch Brothers in Harmony which includes live musicians playing over their DJ set. Since then, they’ve built a reputation for their tight, funky sets and no-nonsense musical choices. Big events and companies approach them wanting their ever-exciting sound. “Allround is the style we play,” says DJ Carlito “It is very broad and moves across different styles of jazz into hip hop / R&B and goes from disco to different styles of house, and through break beats and broken beats to uplifting rough funk and obscure rare grooves to nu-soul and nu-jazz followed by Drum & Bass, if the mood and crowd is right.”
Releases As a producer / remixer, DJ Carlito’s first 12-inch record was a remix on the Ron van Zelst track, Whatever, released on Dazzle Records (1996). After a long break, he came into contact with DJ Whale from Norway, who was visiting Amsterdam. After corresponding for a while, DJ Whale moved to Amsterdam to check out the scene and to start a label called Mid-Nite Sessions. “The track that I made with DJ Whale, Whale Carlito, (2003) was about to come out when the label moved back to Norway,” says DJ Carlito. “They had had five successful releases. Our deep house track is still not released or signed.”
DJ Carlito’s latest unsigned releases, Epsilon Theta and Divine Previews, are two E.P. projects with a total of four tracks on each E.P., created under his pseudonym, Logan MacRide, in co-operation with Greek producer Alex Roudos. One of the tracks, Liquid X-Pectations, was signed and released on 1 June 2006 on the 12-inch vinyl, Guitartronics (Blue Dove Records). Guitartronics received rave reviews from Frisky Radio / Interference Productions, Bedrock Breaks, Tigerhook / Bedrock / Renaissance, and others. Later in 2006, Liquid X-Pectations was released on the double compilation, Eclectic Dance (PlusRec Records, the official dance sub-label of Universal Greece).
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