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Since the ripe age of 2 when Vin’s
Mom potty-trained him by bribing him with a record player, Vinnie has always
felt extremely connected to music his whole life.
He started mixing music at the age of thirteen, performing locally in his
home town of Yonkers N.Y. In 1983 at the age of just 16, he landed his first
club gig at Wheels Roller Rink also in Yonkers. After playing at many smaller
clubs, he landed a job in New Rochelle NY at a club called "Streets" This was
significant because Streets had 4 competitors in the immediate area, clubs that
were a little bigger and a little more well known. Vinnie, already a DJ for 4
years, wanted to learn more not only about playing music, but creating it. so he
learned about editing on the Reel-to-Reel, digital drum machines, and samplers.
It was 1987. He brought this new style, and equipment to "Streets" and within a
few months Streets became the most popular club in the area. This was directly
related to Vin's new style of DJing. Using a all this equipment, Vin was able to
create new songs live at the club, play his own special remixes of songs, or
make vocal medleys using accapellas and beats on the 3 1200's.
At the age of seventeen he credited his first two mixes for WBLS radio in
NYC. He continued performing at many clubs in Manhattan and the New York area,
and in 1989 started working at “The Loft” Recording Studios as a Remixer /
Producer / Engineer. In the same year he made a Remix Medley Record called “Bits
and Pieces 89” – which got air-time on NY radio. In 1990 his remixes of “Feel
the nasty Groove / Take you Higher” by Fojo reached #5 on the Underground Chart
in Billboard Magazine.
It was at “The Loft” that producers Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers contacted
him to do a remix of their new song “I Wanna Make Love to You” for the group
“Rythem Syndicate.” He took this song, which was a Ballad to a huge Techno hit
in Europe. Also in that year Vinnie composed, mixed, and engineered his own
track called “Techno Confusions” under the name of "Planet V". This record
reached #1 domestically and #7 on the world charts as reported by the then
national “U.S. Rave Magazine”
1995 brought on a change in his music career. He created the alias “DJ
Vincent Vanguard” and under this alias he continued his work with Techno and
Progressive House in the NYC Club Scene performing at some of NY’s biggest clubs
including Tunnel, Roxy
and Limelight. While Vincent Vanguard was gaining huge popularity in the club
scene, DJ Vinnie Campisi was getting back to his roots of Classic Disco, Funk,
Early 80’s Dance Music, and Freestyle – pioneering the widely popular “Play
Everything” format, in NYC Lounges.
2005 was the official end of the name Vincent Vanguard, It was time to bring
Vinnie Campisi back. Blending his hard-hitting technique as NYC's Vincent
Vanguard and the musical knowledge and experience as Vinnie Campisi, he
became an unstoppable force in the NYC club scene. Always on the edge of Dj
technology, he found that by using a computer and a few different
State-of-the-Art programs, he was able to perform much better for his audience
then he could using just two or three turntables, In-fact he was Contracted by
PCDJ - one of the industries premiere DJ Software companies - to be one of their
DEMO DJ's.
In January of 2007, DJ Vinnie Campisi was signed to XM Radio as a resident DJ of
Channel 83 – Chrome. This is a Classic Funk/Dance Channel. He was chosen not only for
his mixing ability, but it was his technique as a NYC Techno DJ that really
grabbed “XM’s” attention. He brings to XM Radio's Chrome is his knowledge of
Classic Dance Music backed by a career which spans 27 years - all mixed by a
Techno DJ. His mixing style is classic of dj’s in the late 70’s while his
technique is all NYC nightclub.
In Nov of 2008, Vinnie's newest production "The Wicked Drummer" Tech House
Remix, by Dennis Cialella, was "pressed" and he has 2 more tracks awaiting their
pressing date.
Always evolving both in technique and music selections has kept Vinnie as one of
NYC's most versatile DJ's. You can find him at some of NYC's coolest Clubs and
Lounges 3 to 4 nights a week, and coming soon you will find him on Sirius XM Radio.
You'll even find him in the summer in Central Park DJing for 2000 people while
they Dance and Rollerskate.
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