Hailing from provincial Italy, world class DJ & producer Benny Benassi is a name needing little introduction but always deserving of wide admiration and acclaim.  Indulging in a career spanning fifteen plus years, Benassi is renown as a humble, authentic and charming character who has grown from club DJ to festival king to multi-million selling record producer taking success in his stride. Trademarking his unique infusion of house and electro with his global smash “Satisfaction” Benny has continued to create music which is a clear evolution of this signature sound but never deviating too far. 

There is no better place to start delving into the rich history of the Benassi career than with his international blockbuster, “Satisfaction” and its game-changing music video became his launch pad into stardom. Created with his cousin and producer, Alle Benassi, and inspired by the car horns outside an open street facing window, this single catapulted into the charts with a #1 in France, #2 in the UK and Germany. Followed by his debut album Hypnotica, which reached top 20 across nearly all parts of Europe within the first month of release. 

The next few years for Benny were a culmination of successes, whether it be the major festivals he went on the play (Coachella, EDC, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland to name a few) or his next artist album, Rock N Rave in 2008. The same year he won a Grammy Award for his ground breaking remix of Public Enemy “Bring The Noise” further catapulting the Benassi name into stardom. 

In 2011, Benny teamed up with a star-studded album cast for his album Electroman which featured T-Pain, Kelis, Jean-Baptsiste and Apl.de.ap amongst others and most famously Gary Go with his chart-topping single “Cinema”.  The Skrillex remix of “Cinema” not only went Gold in the US and platinum in Australia and Canada but won the Benassi’s another Grammy whilst holding firm in the iTunes top 10 dance chart for over 6 months. 

Still on this exceptional career high, Benny Benassi combined talents with Chris Brown to create one of the biggest cross-over dance records of its time with “Beautiful People”. The following years have been a measure of incredible world tours and releases, most notably his record “Dance The Pain Away” with John Legend, which premiered live on stage at Coachella with John himself. 

2016 saw Benny released his first album in five years Danceaholic, an unexpected, stunning cocktail of already released tracks, two unreleased reworks of older singles and brand new songs, led by the hit summer anthem “Paradise”, once again with Chris Brown. “Paradise” stayed in the Top 50 UK charts for 10 weeks and boasts more than 65 million video views and close to 47 million Spotify streams. 

In recent years, Benny's main releases include “Everybody Needs A Kiss” featured US duo Sofi Tukker racking up over 10 millions streams online and was featured as the sound of gay pride for Musica.ly, "Lonely Nights" featuring Lil Yachty, interspersed with two great house-oriented tracks, "Inside" with Chris Nasty, performing well in clubs and on streaming platforms and "Everybody Hates Monday Mornings" with his own production outfit, BB Team, and featuring the eccentric and charismatic YouTuber, Canguro English.

Beyond his own productions he brought his sound to a wider musical audience with a flurry of high-profile remixes with the likes of Bob Marley & The Wailers, Giorgio Moroder, Madonna, Sean Paul and the Rolling Stones, to name but a few; whilst maintaining a weekly radio show on the US heavy-weight iHeart Radio broadcasting to a staggering quarter of a billion listeners monthly.

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Dead Romeo aka Nick DeFazio now has an ever growing catalog of releases in his arsenal as well as steady national/international attention from some of the scenes "big dawgs". Hailing from Central New York, from the very beginning of Nick's start in 2011 he was aiming for perfection, having now 6 eps and a stack of singles working with labels like Grimey Groove Records, Bass Grime Records, Morbit Records, Rellik audio recordings, and now joining the ranks of DUBSTEP SF, his precise and original musical style has gotten him some major attention on the Beatport and Juno charts. He is also co-owner of event production company Bass Art. Playing shows and festivals nationally from the start and grabbing listeners was the special ingredient to what he likes to call the rage dance. Sharing the stage with the likes of Gramatik, Griz, Datsik, Bear Grillz, Hulk, Dank, B-real, Kottonmouth Kings, Consider The Course, Bizzy Bone and many more serious players in the Bass Scene. You will often find Nick going out on his own headline run of shows and headlining some grass root festivals along the way. Where ever he goes, the crowd is sure to be pleased. In 2014 he released a very fine tuned electro house Ep called Methods that had charted on Beatport for a few weeks and peaking at #56, with house not being his main squeeze of production it was a fresh of breath air for the bass producer, along the way he has had charting eps and singles as well as a few tracks on an indie horror film in 2013, now being on his 5th year in the electronic dance music world be on the lookout for some floor bangers and check his links and social pages for where you can catch his next live show.

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