I basically just try to enjoy myself whatever I'm doing or wherever I am - because life really is too short...so LETS AV IT !! OI !! OI !!
Below is a taster of my DJ Profile - I Hope you enjoy my page and if it is useful to you then even better!! Thanks again for dropping by, hope to hear from you soon - All the best...
BIOGRAPHY...
Rossi is a 25 year old DJ, Producer/Remixer & Promoter. He started mixing at the tender age of 15!! Since this time he has already moved & travelled around the world from his home in the North-West of England, (A small village called Burscough), to pursue his DJ-ing career.
Rossi is definitely a DJ that needs to be seen to be believed. No CD or online mix can show even half of whom he is when DJ-ing live. He has a huge persona on & off the stage & is a pure entertainer behind the decks, incorporating his own unique turntablism skills (including his trademark backwards scratching), into an epic set of perfect beat matching & excellent tune selection no matter what genre of music he is playing at the time or where he is performing at. He is also very confident on the mic and can use it wherever necessary.
So far in his career he has held residencies for Cream, Miss Moneypenny's & Godskitchen, Hed Kandi & Pukka Up - (to name just a few). With all of the residencies Rossi has held over the years abroad and in the UK, he pulls in the crowds & he has always had a great following of loyal clubbers that come back time after time to see his flamboyant mixing styles & extreme, explosive DJ sets .
He has also appeared as the headlining guest DJ at many of the most prestigious events, parties & venues worldwide, thus proving he is a very capable, very talented & most definitely a DJ to keep a very close eye on in the not so distant future.
Ever since he became a professional DJ he has never disappointed the 1000's of people who have heard him play, instead he blows the roof off with his magical sets that are guaranteed to leave the crowd sweaty and literally begging for more! He is a very versatile DJ who can turn his hand to many styles of music & strongly believes in being flexible, describing 'His' style to be anything over 130 BPM, not restricting himself to one specific genre of music, instead keeping his options open & enjoying all the different sets that he plays.
The music he does play is a diverse variety with sets consisting of:-
*(Funky, Electro & Dirty House)
*(Hard House / Dance)
*(all forms of Trance)
&
*(The odd Retro set here and there)
Depending on where he's booked to play.
His technical ability is outstanding & having the ability to get two tunes seamlessly in time in under 20 seconds gives him the time he needs to scratch, setup & perform tricks, use his fast individual cutting rhythms, use the effects, and as if that wasn't enough, he will even bring a third & forth deck into the mix just to spice things up!!
The vast experience Rossi has is the key to reading the crowd & and keeping them interested and entertained right through each set.
Rossi's showmanship is showcased every time he plays & he enjoys nothing more than interacting with the crowd and getting them involved by hyping them up with his unbelievable amount of energy and enthusiasm. All Rossi's sets are 99% improvised with only certain big tricks being pre-planned or trained, making him one of THE most exciting DJ's to be seen live on the circuit.
Since Rossi started listening to music at a very early age, he has always been heavily into dance, but he has eaten, breathed and lived on DJ-ing, producing & promoting in the dance scene since 15 and you can physically see the love and passion he has for it while mixing live.
To him it's not just a hobby or a job it's a way of life!!!!!
HERE ARE JUST SOME CLUBS, EVENTS & PLACES ROSSI HAS HELD RESIDENCIES & APPEARED AS A GUEST, ON SOME OCCASIONS - MORE THAN ONCE ...
Cream (world tour), Godskitchen (world tour), Miss Moneypenny's (world tour), Pukka Up (world tour), Hed Kandi (world tour), Pleasure Rooms (Faliraki), Q-Club (Faliraki), Rise Club (Ayia Napa), Glasshouse (London), Charlie Chans (London) Dive Inn (Ayia Napa), Abyss (Ayia Napa), The Astoria (Southport), Bar Non (Southport), The Beach Bar (Southport), The Gas Club (Ayia Napa), The Warehouse (London), Sinners (Faliraki), Club UK (Crete), Maloneys (Oldham), The Kingsway (Southport), Arriba (Ormskirk), Clockwork Orange (Ayia Napa), Twenty's Reunion (Skegness), River Reggae (Ayia Napa), Breeze Bar (Faliraki), Bunny's (Faliraki), Liquid (Faliraki), Bassline (Cape Town), Another Wild Night @ J2 (Bolton), Mezzanine Lounge (Krakov - Poland) Bagley's (Ayia Napa), Plus nightclub - Laganas (Zante), Rescue Club - Laganas (Zante), Oi !! Oi !! Tour (Cyprus & UK), Sail in Club (Corfu), Revolution (Parsonage Gardens - Manchester), StudioOne11 @ Club V (Manchester), Overload Dance Events (UK), Napa Dreams Bar (Ayia Napa), Titanic Club (Ayia Napa), Nissi Bay Beach Bar (Ayia Napa), Creation (Leeds) Castle Club (Ayia Napa), Another Wild Night @ Castle Club (Ayia Napa), Baby Cream (Leeds), Funky4Love @ Castle Club (Ayia Napa), Dance Unite - (Zambia), Cryogenic @ Castle Club (Ayia Napa), Decadence (Leeds) Hollywood Boulevard (Ayia Napa), New Yorks (Southport), Kosmopol (Ayia Napa), Venue Club (Faliraki), PR1 (Preston), Time (Derby), Pyzazz (Ayia Napa), Hush (Ibiza), Corner Bar (Ibiza), laura Bar (Ibiza), Opium (Ibiza), Retiro Bar (Ibiza), Viva (Ibiza), Venus (Manchester), Ibiza Mar Hotel (Ibiza), Liquid (Blackburn), Liquid (Wigan), Houseductive @ Paparazzi (Manchester), Twisted Rhythm @ Bedlam (Manchester), Visage (Huddersfield).... (TO NAME JUST A FEW!!)
COMPETITIONS ENTERED...
BabyCream Leeds 2006, Search for a DJ - 3rd place out of 600 Entrants (Did not win the competition but recalled by management to be Main Resident some months later).
MEDIA... ,p>
Regularly featured in What's On Magazine - Ayia Napa (He was quoted by the Magazine as 'Our Local Celebrity'.)
Featured on ITV's Club Reps – Faliraki
Featured on E4 - Ayia Napa
Featured several times in Mixmag
Featured on Napa FM -regular guest mixes & interviews
Featured in Nuts Magazine
Featured on Rock FM (The Hotmix)
Featured weekly as a reporter from Ibiza for Rock FM
Featured on Africa's National Radio 1 - Interview & Live set broadcast from open air event in Zambia
INTERNATIONAL...
So far Rossi has graced the Decks in... Zambia-(North Africa), Cape town-(South Africa), Krakow-(Poland), Benidorm-(Spain), Rhodes Town-(Rhodes-Greece), Faliraki-(Rhodes-Greece), Malia-(Crete-Greece), Roda/Sidari-(Corfu-Greece), Laganas-(Zante-Greece), Ayia Napa-(Cyprus), Paphos-(Cyprus), Limassol-(Cyprus), Ibiza-(Spain)
Also in the coming months gigs are set to take Rossi to Dubai, Greece, Cyprus, Holland & other places yet to be confirmed. Thus allowing him to share the stage & spotlight with some of the biggest and best names of the industry.
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007 SO FAR…
Apart from all the gigs he played before summer in and around the UK (which do deserve mentioning & were all fantastic for different reasons)…
Rossi has been trying his talent out in Ibiza for the summer; DJ-ing & hosting many of the best clubs, bars & pool parties there was on offer. Not just happy with that he also continued with successfully promoting his events & reporting about the goings on in and around Ibiza concentrating on clubs, bars, DJ's, events, his top tunes of the week & other relating topics, broadcasting a link up from Ibiza to Rock FM in Preston (UK), every Saturday night on the Floorfillers show to fellow colleague and ex Eden resident - Mark Freejack and to his 300,000+ listeners that follow the show week after week.
PRESENT...
Rossi continues to be fun loving, sociable & hard working. He loves DJ-ing, Remixing & Producing music, promoting his own nights & generally anything to do with the Dance Music Scene, it's all good as far as he is concerned. Rossi really enjoys meeting new people all the time, making new friends & listening to other DJ's, plus lots of other hobbies and interests amongst his own hectic, yet fun filled DJ-ing career.
He works really hard at remixing & producing music, promoting the events he's involved in and is always trying to better himself as a DJ, as there are so many DJ's nowadays, he is always pushing the boundaries of his own skills to make his sets as explosive as possible, ensuring that they stand out from the rest by playing exceptional music, using his own creative flair, adding his own unique special turntable trickery & turntablism to each set & interacting and really entertaining the crowd at all times.
He is a firm believer nowadays that its not about being a big name DJ or having a big name promotion - its about entertaining the crowd, giving them value for money and that is what Rossi is all about, not just a DJ or Promoter but most importantly - an entertainer too.
FUTURE?
The future looks very bright & promising indeed for this young man, as he has been taken in under the watchful eye of 22Media Management from the UK, strengthening the fact that 2007 brings many opportunities for Rossi’s remixing & producing, events & DJ-ing to branch out and hit the UK & worldwide clubbing scene.
Currently he is officially ranked just outside the top 100 DJ’s in the UK on ‘The DJ List’ & in the worldwide rankings on the same list he is around the 1500 mark out of 130,000 DJ’s!!! Putting him above some of the biggest players in the scene and rightly so.
His ranking continues to rise month by month, showcasing the fact he is a rising talent and a star in the making.
Wherever Rossi plays his loyal followers from back home are sure to venture over and experience every party big or small he plays at & that big break he has strived for over the years is just around the corner now.
It seems exciting times are ahead, so as they say...
WATCH THIS SPACE !!!
HISTORY...
I first knew I wanted to be a DJ when I was watching 'Top Of The Pops' on T.V when I was 12 years old and it looked so cool to me when the guy in the background was making all these noises by playing with a record (which I now know was scratching) haha.
After watching the program I told my Dad that I wanted to do this on one of his records on his record player and he told me if I did I'd be in trouble, so being the rebellious child that I was I decided to do it while he was out on his favourite Rod Stewart 'Atlantic Crossing' special collectors edition, bright orange, acetate vinyl.
To be honest when I tried to repeat what I'd seen on the tv I just remember it making a weird noise and nothing at all like it should have so I left it alone and didn't bother with it again admitting defeat. It was only a few days later that I realised that I had ruined my Dads best piece of vinyl when he played it one night and it hopped, skipped and jumped over all the tracks on the side I had experimented with that day. (Oops), my dad was not happy to say the least, I was in a lot of trouble and my dreams of becoming a DJ were over : (
That was until I was 14 years old and being well into motocross I used to practise all the time on the local track near my house which meant having to drive the bike down roads etc with no license to get there. I was on my way home driving on the road when I was chased and caught by the police in an unmarked car who said if I didn't sell my bike I would be disqualified from driving before I even had a license, so I sold my beloved bike and got my first set of DJ-ing equipment - Citronic belt drive turntables, a Tandy Realistic 4 channel mixer, a Realistic amplifier, a Phillips CD player, a Pioneer tape deck, 2 large Realistic speakers and a shed load of hardcore records. Looking back I was totally ripped off but I was happy that I had all that equipment and therefore started to pursue my dream of becoming a superstar DJ.
I tried to teach myself how to mix but I didn't have a clue at all haha, I literally spent hours upon hours just trying to beat match and I made mix tapes for friends at school who laughed at my rubbish mixing as they were all listening to happy hardcore tapes mixed by big name DJ's who could scratch, & I couldn't even scratch my arse at the time!! LOL!!
This sparred me on and I finally cracked it with a little help from my good friend Carl Parker who was several years older than me and playing at some big venues back then and I really looked up to him as he had already established himself as a top DJ in our area. That first correct mix I did was like all my Birthdays and Christmas's rolled in one, I was so happy, Carl then taught me about scratching and the whole structure of music, because being a Producer as well as a DJ he really influenced and inspired me ( cheers mate !!)I then got the confidence to play regularly at our local youth club, house parties and landed myself a residency at a local bar (Arriba, Ormskirk - Lancashire).
I then saved enough money for a set of Technics 1210's and a decent mixer, then that was me hooked on the whole thing and I started promoting and DJ-ing some big nights with Carl in Southport, gaining respect from a lot of people, gaining valuable experience and most of all proving all my previous critics and dis-believers wrong by actually getting somewhere with my DJ-ing dream.
I then wanted MORE and decided to try my hand abroad for a summer season in Corfu (Greece) still at the young age of 16. After that summer I got a real taste of the DJ-ing lifestyle & I have never looked back since.
