Jimmy started mixing in early 1992. He
started off by doing guest spots at The Beacham Theater for
Kimball Collins and Dave Cannalte. After The Beacham closed,
he took a 1- year residency with Kimball at Barbarella's Lift
night. The Beacham reopened for the Reunion Parties, he began
doing guest spots there with DJ's like Sasha, John Digweed,
and Dave Seaman. In mid 1994, The Beacham Theater had closed
for good. Jimmy then started taking guest spots up and down
the East Coast.
After doing 2 years of road gigs, Jimmy wanted to branch
out in the music industry. He started Eros Euphony-a company
designed to handle numerous events like DJ-band tour promotions
and his personal studio ventures. Jimmy hooked up with now
studio partner, Sean Cusick to start writing music. Under
the names Eros Euphony, Freelance Icebreakers and The Escape
Artists, they quickly put together two Eps of tracks that
got the attention of some of the best DJs around including
Dave Seaman from Stress Recordings. Stress snapped the duo
to a 1-year contract.
During the same year, Jimmy expanded the other part of Eros
Euphony by setting up Northern Exposure, the first North American
DJ tour for Sasha and John Digweed, with local promoter Bevin
O'neil. This highly successful tour has been instrumental
in putting progressive dance music in the minds and ears of
many people across America. One such club that this tour connected
with the legendary Twilo in New York. Setting up this big
gig took big risk on the part of Jimmy, Twilo and Sasha and
Digweed. This risk has now paid off with a monthly residency
for all three DJs that has become the biggest night in New
York City with a constant flow of 4,000 dedicated fans. Jimmy
continued to build on the success of the Northern Exposure
Tour by expanding his Djing across America, Canada and a guest
spot at PACHA in Ibiza for Renaissance. The end of 1996 saw
Eros Euphony expanding once again. Together with Chris Fortier
(Fade Records), they started the import promotional company
in the United States. This part of Eros Euphony was set up
to promote widely UK and European Dance music. Labels like
Polydor, Jackpot, Sony, Whoop, Limbo, Platipus, Sperm, Positive,
Sim, Loaded, and many more have all given the full support.
For 1997, all aspects of Eros Euphony took off through the
roof, which led to the creation of Balance Promote Group,
the promotion end of Eros Euphony. With the success of Northern
Exposure, Cream (Liverpool) contacted Jimmy to put together
a Cream USA tour. This tour spanned across America and Canada
again using such DJ talent as Carl Cox, Dave Seaman, Doc Martin
and Nick Warren. This tour has solidified Jimmy and Balance
as thee Promotions Company in the USA. Balance now hold exclusive
booking rights to many of the UK's top DJs including Sasha,
John Digweed, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman, Parks & Wilson,
Quivver, to name a few.
Jimmy's DJing continued to rise in 1997. He traveled with
partner Chris Fortier to do a mini tour of the country set
by close friend John Digweed playing clubs like Sugar Snack
and Cream. In 1998, he returned playing at the best clubs
in London, Leeds, Manchester, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and
Ibiza. This year, when not traveling, Jimmy was in the studio
producing More under the name Van M-Leeds, soon to be released
on Digweed's Bedrock label. In late summer 1999, Jimmy headed
overseas again to play Heaven, Empire, Renaissance, and Home.
Jimmy, now permanently relocated from Florida to NYC, continues
his climb to the top and can be found Djing all over the world.
