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Victor Simonelli is New York house royalty. Born and musically-schooled in Brooklyn, Simonelli grew up in an era where disco was giving way to the new sound of house, and that dramatic intersection is where his heart and many of his great productions lie. A New York radio fanatic from an early age, he discovered dance music via his boombox dial before ever setting foot in a club. He became an intern at Arthur Baker’s Shakedown Studios, and first made his name as a producer in the dying days of Nu Groove with Groove Committee’s I Want You To Know in 1991. But it was the release of Feel So Right by Solution, an international smash, that guaranteed an excess of airmiles DJing in Japan, Europe and beyond. Although it was as a house producer that Simonelli forged a reputation, his influences came more from the New Jersey sound detonated by Tony Humphries at Zanzibar whose bullets were supplied by Blaze, Smack and Paul Simpson. Victor was intimately involved in the formation of Northcott’s Sub-Urban Records, for whom he recorded countless classics (usually in collaboration with Tommy Musto) before starting his own stable of imprints, including Bassline and Big Big Trax. More recently, he...
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