DIRTY CHANNELS / DON CARLOS - ADRIATICO

Dirty Channels are Italian DJs and music producers duo Simone and Leme. Playing together since 2007, they regularly tour the world with their unique style of old school house and afro-disco grooves, performing at some of the most reputed clubs and events: Hï Ibiza, Defected Croatia, Polifonic festival and many more. You can also catch a Dirty Channels set at their residency Take it Easy in Milan, party and record label run alongside longtime friends Bugsy and DJLMP. After being discovered and mentored by Pastaboys, they landed tracks on infamous labels as Glitterbox / Defected, Classic Music Company, Dan Shake’s label Shake and Ovum Recordings by Josh Wink. Dirty Channels established sound was marked by the release of “Watchin’ Out” on Athens Of The North, a disco-house killer with more than 3 million streams on Spotify, included into the Mixmag’s Tunes Of The Year chart and supported by artists as Gilles Peterson, Kerri Chandler and Jeremy Underground to name a few. Their latest smash is the recent release of “Let Love In”, featuring the voice of legendary disco diva Debbie Jacobs, and “Adriatico EP”, alongside the italo-house master Don Carlos. During their career, Dirty Channels remixed tracks from artists such as Mike Dunn, Terrence Parker, Robert Owens, Telepopmusik and Roland Clark. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

There are at least two artists using the name Don Carlos: 1) Italian deep house producer and DJ Carlo Troja 2) Jamaican reggae singer and composer 1) Carlo Troja aka Don Carlos hails from Varese, in the North of Italy, and is active as a DJ from the late 70's. He debuted as a producer towards the end of the 80's with the single 'Alone' on Calypso Records (Irma), which became one of the cult tracks of the international Deep House scene. His productions have always mixed House rhythms with afro-american jazz sounds, verging sometime towards disco, sometime towards progressive house or electronic soul. In 1992 IRMA USA released his first album 'Mediterraneo', followed in 1993 by the Montego Bay project, produced together with Stefano Tirone (S-Tone Inc.), also on IRMA. He then released some singles on the Chicago based label Guidance under the Aquanauts moniker. He also reached the UK charts with the hit 'You Make Me Feel', sung by Byron Stingley, cover of the cult song by Sylvester. In 2000 he released a single on Erik Morillo's Subliminal Soul label and played highly acclaimed gigs at Ministry of Sound and Turnmills in London. In 2002 he released his third album 'Music in My Mind' featuring top guest vocalists like Kim Mazelle, Michelle Weeks, Taka Boom and Kevin Bryant. Following two mixed compilations ('Cafe De Paris Saint Tropez' and 'DJ Set') in 2004 IRMA released a collection of his 90's productions titled 'Mediterraneo', like his debut US album. After that a serious car accident kept him away from clubs and recording studio for several months. Finally back in shape he released his fourth album 'The Cool Deep', 8 years since the previous one, which includes all the unreleased material produced during this time. 2) Don Carlos (born Euvin Spencer) was born and raised in one of the most deprived regions of Western Kingston, Jamaica, in a district known as Waterhouse. It was also a musical spawning ground for many of Reggae's greatest talents, such as King Tubby, The Jays, Junior Reid and King Jammy. Don Carlos started his singing career in 1973, as one of the original members of the roots vocal group Black Uhuru. Alongside other founding members, Don played a prominent role in the recordings of the highly acclaimed Love Crisis album for producer Prince Jammy in 1977. The album was later re-released and re-titled as Black Sounds of Freedom. A year after the trio's ground breaking debut, Don Carlos surprisingly decided to part company in pursuit of a solo career. Having needed at least three years to get the grips of being a soloist, plus developing a knack for song writing and grooming that distinctive, vocal styling it wasn't until May 1981 that Carlos really took the fraternity by storm, courtesy of a heavy, roots and culture flavored show case album Suffering for Negus Roots. Since then, working alongside Goldie, his side kick, co-writer and back-up vocalist, having built and consolidated a staunch following through touring the live circuit--plus 12 solo albums--there has been no turning back. Artist website: http://www.doncarlosreggae.com/ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.