Biography
From Zakynthos to the booth.
A selector of soul, jazz, funk, house and electronic disco — shaped by radio, residencies and the long way home.
The start
Sweet seventeen, then the island.
Love for the music came at his early sweet seventeen. The starting point of his career was Radio TV EPZ on the island of Zakynthos, Greece. He produced and presented the radio show NO NAME on EPZ 88.5 FM.
Those two years led to a first residency at Playboy Night Club, then Cameo Club, then Athens — Studio Bay Queen and Dhites Club. Something told him to check the scene in his native Albania. Downtown Tirana in the early 2000s was the right room: house music was blooming, and he played most of the bars and clubs the city had, especially the southern beach clubs.
Connections in neighbouring Kosovo opened clubs, festivals, local radio and television. From a beach party to high snow, the music fits the room. It is a real treat to see this man behind the booth.
He has worked with Radio TV EPZ (GR), Radio Travel (AL), Radio Urban FM (KS), Klan Kosova TV, RTK1, Hamam Jazz Bar, Dam Festival, PriFilm Festival, SkenaUp, Kosovo 2.0, Prishtina Music Festival, Sunny Hill Festival, Street Party Prishtina, PRite n’Shesh, Record Store Day Tirana, Turtle Fest, Spray Club, Tabu Club, Summer Bamboo May Fest, Dolcinium Kite Surf Club, Kasheme (Zürich), Zone Club and MHz Bar Klub.
Records that taught him
The names in the crate.
The sound sits between Little Louie Vega, Moodymann, Kruder & Dorfmeister and the electronic disco floor — never one genre for its own sake.
Path
Rooms, in order.
Greece
Radio TV EPZ & the first residencies
NO NAME on 88.5 FM, then Playboy Night Club and Cameo on Zakynthos, then Athens at Studio Bay Queen and Dhites Club.
Albania
Tirana in the early 2000s
House was blooming downtown. Bars, clubs, and the southern beach rooms — plus Radio Travel’s Travel Desire show with Saimir Mevlani.
Kosovo
Clubs, radio, television
Hamam Jazz Bar, MHz Bar Klub, Radio Urban FM, RTK1 with Berat Miftari, Klan Kosova, Sunny Hill and the Prishtina festival circuit.
Elsewhere
Zürich, the coast, the mountain
Kasheme living-room sessions, Dolcinium on the beach, and the rooms where soul, jazz and house still hold a floor.