Record Label run by Franco Corica & Andrea Normanno.

Nestled on the eastern coast of Sicily, at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, a small group of local artists is blending heritage with innovation, reimagining musical languages into a new, forward-thinking sonic form. Jonica Records sets sail toward uncharted horizons in a journey across the globe, in the quest to capture the essence of the local within the universal.

jonicarecords@gmail.com

Producer, Dj, Rapper, Song Writer and Finisher....Born and raised in Detroit and been all around the world Japan, Toronto, Sweden,NC,ATL,Cleveland, Chi Town........I Just Love Music!!!! LISTENING TO IT! MAKING IT! PROMOTING IT!

DJ / Label manager / Promotor / Radio Host 

for bookings & promos: guusvbentum@gmail.com 

<3 Label & events: Blauwdruk @blauwdruk024
<3 Shared Joy w/ Sander Emil @sanderemil
<3 Open Source Radio Resident since 2021
<3 Resident DJ at Paak 
<3 Sellin' Records at @marini_records

*2025 
x. Morning Mesh | Nijmegen 1-1-2025
x. Music Take Me Up w/ San Soda @ Kiosk Radio | Brussel (BE) 16-1-2025 
x. Back to Wax 4h vinyl only set (Gent) | 17-1-2025
x. Paak w/ Sam Don | Nijmegen 24-1-2025
x. Salon Des Amateurs w/ Teorema | Dusseldorf 25-1-2025
x. Multipla w/ Leroy Rey | Amsterdam 1-2-2025
x. Unkompress w/ Moe | Berlin 15-2-2025
x. Love Transmission w/ Ays & Kuriosa | Rotterdam 4-4-2025
x. Kingsday Outdoor | Rotterdam 26-4-2025
x. Paak b2b Moe | Nijmegen 10-5-2025
x. Maquillage Pride Special (b2b Kim Josefine), NAR | Utrecht 7-6-2025
x. Blauwdruk w/ Rob Manga, Mesh | 12-07-2025
x. Paak (All Night) | 15-8-2025
x. Cue (Listening Session) | 19-9-2025
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*2024*
* Paak NYE w/ Marini & Lysah | Nijmegen 1-1-2024
* Skatecafe b2b Ajuma (all night) | Amsterdam 12-1-2024 
* Notturno @ DOKA w/ Wendel Sield & Simon Paw | Amsterdam 10-3-2024 
* Paak w/ Fleur du Bonheur | Nijmegen 30-3-2024
* Danskamer w/ DJ Tracksuit (Amsterdam) | 26-4-2024
* Paak (all night) | 15-6-2024
* Cosmic Echoes w/ Edo (Stockholm) | 28-6-2024
* Down The Rabbit Hole (Shared Joy) | 5-7-2024
* Blauwdruk x Drift op de Boot w/ Antal | 13-7-2024
* Shared Joy All Night @ NAR (Utrecht) | 13-7-2024
* Blauwdruk w/ Colleen Murphy, Mesh (Nijmegen) | 16-7-2024
* Park Kronenburg b2b Bonnefooi (Nijmegen) | 19-7-2024
* Morning Mesh (After Hours) - Techno set w/ Sander Emil | 20-7-2024
* Club Ekko (Utrecht) | 26-7-2024
* Danskamer b2b Mario Marini (Amsterdam) | 25-10-2024 
* Paak (all night) | 21-12-2024
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*2023* 
* Sissi's allnight w/ Mario Marini | 20-1-2023
* Paak allnight w Wes | 27-1-2023
* Bloemerbar Opening Weekend w/ Red D | 28-1-2023
* Arcade @ Azijnfabriek (All Night Shared Joy) | 10-2-2023
* Shared Joy all day (8hrs), Cafe Matinee @ Franco James | 25-2-2022
* Sub Rosa Amersfoort | Fluor 31-3-2023
* Paak b2b San Soda all night | 8-4-2023
* Push It Groningen | Vera 15-4-2023
* Discotuin Leiden | Wibar 6-5-2023
* Diskodip 10 years w/ Kamma & Masalo, Red D Doornroosje Nijmegen | 3-6-2023
* Shared Joy (All Night) | Mesh, Nijmegen 15-7-2023
* Paak (b2b Bonnefooi)  17-7-2023
* Paradise Festival w/ Ajuma 9-9-2023
* Down the Rabbit Hole x Kunstnacht Afterparty w/ Hellie & Lysah | Vasim 16-9-2023
* Blauwdruk 23-9-2023 w/ Kennedy | Mesh 
* Weerd w/ Kleo , Utrecht 7-10-2023 | Ekko 
* Herfstdrift (Shared Joy) | Nijmegen 25-11-2023 
* Anook @ NAR (Shared Joy) | Utrecht 22-12-2023

*2022*
Discotuin w/ San Soda, Wibar Leiden | 19-02-2022
PAAK w/ Loud E, Nijmegen | 26-2-2022
Tivoli w/ Sander Emil, Utrecht | 3-3-2022
Lovelee w/ Sekan, Amsterdam | 18-3-2022
Paradise Now, Dusseldorf | 8-4-2022
Blauwdruk w/ Mark Grusane | 13-5-2022
Raveplan w/ Mahabe & Bastienne, Amersfoort | 6-6-2022
Down the Rabbit Hole OSR w/ Sander Emil | 30-6-2022
Lovelee w/ Garnett , Amsterdam  | 15-7-2022
Drift op de Boot w/ CC:Disco & Sander Emil, Nijmegen | 17-7-2022
Park Kronenburg festival | 17-7-2022 
Bloemerbar w/ Red D | 17-7-2022
Paak w/ Kennedy | 20-7-2022
Via Electronica | 21-7-2022
Frequence, Paris | 7-10-2022
SID ADE, Sissi's Amsterdam | 22-10-2022
ADE Hangover festival | 23-10-2022
Paak (all night) | 4-11-2022
Herfstdrift b2b Wes | 25-11-2022
Listening session w San Soda | 27-11-2022
Blauwdruk w KC the Funkaholic | 9-12-2022
Brebl | 26-12-2022

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“There are at least a few people in this thing determined to keep House Music weird. Chicago’s Alinka is one of them.” – Terry Matthew, 5Magazine

Alinka is the kind of DJ other DJ’s will tell you about. She has a unique power on the decks that comes from lifelong passion and time served, with a focused devotion to her first love – house music. Raised on Chicago’s vibrant house sound with toes dipped into Detroit techno, Europe’s more robust approaches to bass music and the myriad of genre’s coming from cities like Berlin, London and Paris.

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, her early childhood included reluctantly learning the piano, her mother is a pianist, while trying to convince her parents to let her play guitar. Her exposure to Western music was limited, living in a communist country where censorship was common practice. Her family eventually immigrated to Chicago as Jewish refugees in the late ‘80s as the USSR crumbled. This was her first experience of pop music and she fell head over heels for the chart sounds of Madonna and Janet Jackson. Then came house music from local radio shows where you could frequently hear tracks by Chicago legends like Cajmere and DJ Funk, and shows like Sonic Boom helped expose underground music to the masses.

By the late ‘90s, music had taken over her life. Teenage Alinka immersed herself in the dance music scene spending her summer pulling double shifts at a local pool and moonlighting for rave promoters to build up enough cash to buy decks. After a year of skipping class to relentlessly practice her mixing skills, she began her full-time musical pursuit. Working for various club promoters, doing odd jobs passing out flyers and helping with party logistics - anything just to get into clubs underage to see her favourite DJs - all while spending hours digging for tracks at Chicago’s legendary record shop Gramaphone. In 2001 Justin Long recruited her to be the opening resident for his .Dotbleep party at Smartbar where she honed her skills for the best part of a decade.

In 2012, an impromptu meeting with former Hercules and Love Affair vocalist, Shaun J. Wright, changed her life forever. Their evolving friendship resulted in what would be the first of many musical collaborations. The pair launched their Twirl parties and label, continually strived to inspire each other both musically and spiritually, the result has been an impressive catalogue of material for both of them collaboratively and individually on the likes of The Classic Music Company, Jackathon Jams, Crosstown Rebels, Leftroom, and of course Twirl, where as well as their own material the duo have welcomed renowned artists like Spencer Parker, Virginia, LA-4A, Kim Ann Foxman, and Jason Kendig onto the label.

Recent years have seen Alinka really hit her stride as a producer with successful releases on world renown labels like Rekids, Crosstown Rebels, Need Want, Permanent Vacation, and Peggy Gou’s Gudu Records. She also turned out a standout collection of remixes for labels Me Me Me, Live At Robert Johnson, Correspondant, and Get Physical.

Now living in Berlin, Alinka has well and truly found her feet and inspiration. Alinka has used this base to throw down at parties across Europe from Berghain/Panorama Bar to Circoloco, with regular visits back to the US to play standout clubs like Smart Bar and Ukraine's famous ∄ club in Kyiv, where she stands as club’s first international resident, playing a minimum of six shows per year including a curated show.

Her evolution continues with the recent re-launch of her Twirl imprint, highlighted by the ‘Day Dreamer’, ‘Sorry For Not Trending’ and ‘Edgewater’ EPs that finely balance Alinka’s future-focused ethos, with a unmistakable, proud passion for her Chicago heritage.

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