Record collector / DJ / Broadcaster / Producer / Brownswood Recordings boss / occasional remixer

Flavio Diaz, Italian DJ from Naples, boasts releases on some of the world’s top techno labels. To this day his release and featuring background includes some of the leading techno record labels like Adam Beyer’s Drumcode Records, Rino Cerrone’s Rilis, Unrilis and Loose Records, Sven Väth’s Cocoon Recordings and Marco Bailey’s MB Elektronics. Flavio Diaz has remixed some of the top techno stars including the man Carl Cox himself, Rino Cerrone and Jon Rundell to mention some. 

His personal climb toward the highest peaks of the techno underground scene, begins away back in 2005. During those years Flavio was critically inspired by artists such as Adam Beyer, Rino Cerrone, Marco Bailey and Sven Väth. After no long he moves to London to study Sound Engineering at the City Of Westminster College and Music Production at the London School Of Sound, inside the legendary Pink Floyd’s recording studio in the neighborhood of Angel, where many of their hits were recorded, including the masterpiece “Another Brick In The Wall”. 

On his way back to Italy, Diaz started an intense collaboration with his mentor Rino Cerrone. This will be a crucial step in launching Flavio’s career into the techno cosmos. The synergy and genuine connection shared by Flavio and Rino will have a great impact on their studio sessions during which they will make several hits acclaimed by the international scene. Since the very beginning of his career Flavio shared the decks with DJs like Joseph Capriati, Dave Clarke, Ben Sims and Technasia, reaching greater milestones gig after gig. 

Flavio’s sound is characterized by intense breaks, overwhelming basslines and crispy grooves with an extreme attention to details and emotional content, blatancy of a sensitive and strongly talented artist.

OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

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The Strypes are 4-piece rhythm and blues band hailing from Cavan, Ireland, formed in 2011 by Ross Farrelly (lead vocals/harmonica), Josh McClorey (lead guitar/vocals), Pete O'Hanlon (bass guitar/harmonica) and Evan Walsh (drums).

The group has spent the past 18 months launching their explosive R&B assault on the clubs and festivals of Ireland, the UK and Europe, viciously hammering out a no-nonsense blues repertoire drawing from the songbooks of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Slim Harpo and more with the passion and venom of British blues groups such as Dr. Feelgood, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones and The Animals. 

Having already been met with critical acclaim from greats such as Jeff Beck and Paul Weller and been tipped by NME as the No. 1 new band to watch, it seems things can only get better for The Strypes.

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