Biography
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Born
25 July 1987 (age 36)
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Born In
Caserta, Caserta, Campania, Italy
Joseph Capriati first began to approach the world of DJing in 1998 at just the age of 11, with the passion for house and hip hop. From 1999 to 2004, he performs in some clubs in south Italy and plays with various international DJ's growing musically and converted to the music that will totally transform himself: techno!
In 2005, Capriati begins his interest in the music production with the desire to create his own music and play it. He began learning the use of music-programs in a recording studio of his friend. Then he bough his first sound card and midi keybord and began to work on his own.
In 2006, he becomes a resident DJ of the new "underground" club from his city, "Disco Seven" where he performs with some best DJ's of techno scene and knows the owner of the Globox, who decides to release his tracks on vinyl named "Formaldehyde" with side B entitled "Microbiotik" that will take a great success and will be played by DJ's like Richie Hawtin, Magda, and Paco Osuna. In the end of 2007, Joseph has his debut on Analytic Trail with “C'est la Vie”; with this track Joseph Capriati is strongly one of the most top charts producers of the year.
In 2008 his releases on Alex Under’s CMYK with the EP “Giallo Canarino” and run to the “Neapolitan techno school”; with Rino Cerrone the “Orange” EP on Loose Rec. and “Unrilis 002”; with Markantonio “Round Zero” on MKT; with Uto Karem “Agile 02” etc. Also, Joseph together with Markantonio created “Codice Morse” for Alchemy Rec. the label of Mauro Picotto, that was played by the most important artists and included in many collections.
Later on, in Analytic Trail the techno hit “Molotov” choiced by Richie Hawtin for first track in his tour set from summer to winter and played like first track too at Love Parade!
In February 2009, he releases an EP for the famous label CLR of Chris Liebing with tracks “Login” and “Passworld” that confirms Joseph in the world techno scene. This year has his debut on one of the best and storic label in the world: Drumcode, of the techno pioneer Adam Beyer, with 2 EP’s "DC53" and "53.5".
From here starts a new era and new sound influence for Joseph! Are known in his performance in festivals like Awakenings (Holland), Wire (Japan), Nature One (Germany) etc. and in some of the best clubs in the world.
Some of his ispiration's artists are Adam Beyer, Speedy J, Richie Hawtin, Marco Carola etc… Currently Capriati is preparing new releases for Drumcode and his first album on Analytic Trail that will be released in the beginning of 2010.
http://josephcapriati.com
Caserta, Italy
2007
Joseph Capriati
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