With an unparalleled legacy in the annals of analog and digital
electronic music John Acquaviva can boast and list pages of
accomplishments in just about every aspect of the music world.
But let’s not talk about the past right now. Surging
to the very top of the production and DJ world in the past
handful of years with a steady stream of club anthems and
chart topping tunes, his productions have won over and set
the mood for an entire generation of clubbers and clubbing
worldwide. Not satisfied with just his own work, Acquaviva
has also relaunched the seminal Definitive Recordings imprint,
taking it to its highest levels ever, fostering new artists,
DJs and producers such as Olivier Gaicomotto, Kid Dub, Robot
Needs Oil/Greg Kobe, to mention but a few.
The tireless Acquaviva is perpetually on worldwide tour,
trying to keep up with all the requests. Due to incredible
demand the past year he has been featured at some of the key
Spring and Summer festivals, including BENICASSIM, Global
Gathering, Kaballah in Brasilas well as key summer dates such
as the Privilige 2008 season opening party in Ibiza, Space
with Danny Tenaglia, Nikki Beach in Marbella, Cocoricco in
Riccione, Tito’s & Abraxas in Palma and closer to
home at Toronto, Canada’s new mega-club CiRCA with a
host of others in between and all over.
As a quick refresher course, John began his international
career in 1989 with Richie Hawtin by founding one of the world's
best known and influential techno labels, Plus 8 Records.
In 1993, Acquaviva and Hawtin also founded Definitive Recordings
and the label is now celebrating 15 years of legendary club
and underground anthems. An acknowledged pioneer of new music
and ideas, John was one of the first people to take notice
and embrace electronic music’s digital future at the
dawn of 2000 by championing Final Scratch. And following that
success, John took another enormous step to help launch Beatport.com,
the biggest dance-music download site in the world.
His international career has spanned 2 decades now, having
DJ’d professionally for almost another decade before
that. Throughout thousands of parties millions of people have
heard him play and continue to keep him in demand. Get in
line or get on the guest-list if you can, and get into the
sound and vision of a new generation.
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