DJ Pippi - Plattenaufleger, Produzent, Trendsetter

DJ Pippis History:

DJ PIPPI was born in the South of Italy and arrvied on Ibiza, the island where he made his name as a dj, from Germany. PIPPI chose the North of Europe to start to develop his passion for music because as he himself points out, he didn't see any chance of progressing in Italy. After a brief spell in Switzerland, PIPPI arrived in Germany, where he ran a record shop, and in 1976 he stood behind the turntables of a disco for the first time in that country.

It was at that time that some friends of him discovered Ibiza. They recommended that he visit this Mediter-ranean island and the dj as a tourist landed on Ibiza in 1979. "I arrived as a tourist and immediately began to get known. It was a form of madness. I was on Ibiza almost every weekend", he remembers. PIPPI started to go to the fashionable discos and distributed tapes of his sessions as a dj. "When I arrived on the island, I dreamt of working in a place like 'Pacha'. That was my wish and my goal". A dream that came true in 1984.

PIPPI started to become known in musical circles on Ibiza, and one of his tapes was heard by the management of "Pacha" who realised that this young Italian was the right person to make "Pacha" an unmissable venue in the disco circuit of the world. The disco's owners flew to Germany without hesitation to offer him the contract that would change DJ PIPPI's life.

PIPPI has worked two different stints in "Pacha". The first time was from 1984 to 1987 and the second one started in 1991 - and he is still there. Between these two stints, DJ PIPPI signed a contract to work in the disco "Ku".

So this dj has been playing records for more than 20 years by now. It is a job that takes up most of the year as in summer he is one of the unmissable institutions of Ibiza and during the winter he travels around the world playing his music in all the five continents, thanks to contracts he received through an agency.

Although it may not seem so the way to the top of the dj's world is a long and hard one. "A dj's job must be taken very seriously by anyone who wants to become one of the best - you have to live it every day. Everything I've got is due to hard work", he states categorically. And he knows exactly what he is talking about. He's been living with vinyl for many years, a career which received international recognition when he appeared on the cover of the Englisch magazines "DJ Magazine" (the dj's bible), in August 1998. Appearing on the cover of this magazine is the most a dj can hope for, in terms of specialised magazines. The headline of the article asked if PIPPI was the luckiest dj alive, and another headline was even more explicit: "On top of the world?". Even though he is at the top he doesn't object to sharing sessions with other djs. "You can always learn new things in this job". So, on various occasions it has been possible to see DJ PIPPI spinning records with djs such as Franky Knuckles, Tony Humphries, Danny Rampling, Erick Morillo, David Morales, Claudio Coccolutio, Cesar Melero and José Padilla to mention just few.

"A good dj is one who plays the right sound at the right time in the right atmosphere; a dj who has a feeling for it", is PIPPI's definition of the key to success as a dj, which is not easy to succeed here. "There are many people who come here, play some music one day and call themselves "djs of Ibiza". It isn't that easy". He recognises that Ibiza has allowed him to work with many different musical styles, something that is only possible on Ibiza "because the people who go to discos appreciate it. "I've been able to play and listen to everything which has given me the advantage of being open to all types of music". But it is exactly this which has made it easier for him to define the musical style he prefers. "Basically, 'House' is what I like". It was his knowledge and domination of this style which got him nominated in the "House/Garage" section of the first "DJ Awards", held in "Pacha" in 1998.

DJ Pippis Workplaces:
DJ TOUR 91 in RONNIE JORDAN CONCERTS
MINISTRY OF SOUNDS 95 (UK)
MANOR BORN (UK)
SOUTHPORT DANCE MUSIC WEEKENDER 96 (UK)
SUGAR SHAKE (UK)
NITRO DANCE TOUR (GREECE)
NAPOLI+PERUGIA RED ZONE (ITALY)
PACHA RICCIONE (ITALY)
RESIDENT PACHA MOON DANCE 96 (IBIZA)
MUSIC FACTORY HELSINKY (FINLAND)
SLEEPNESS NIGHT ZURICH (SWITZERLAND)
KAUFLEUTEN+SENSOR (SWITZERLAND)
PRINCE (SWITZERLAND)
PALCE&QUEEN (PARIS)
KREMLIN & PACHA (PORTUGAL)
FUSE & MIRANO IN BRUXELLS (BELGIUM)
DORIAN GRAY FRANKFURT (GERMANY)
KRAFTWERK (GERMANY)
MACH 1, NUREMBERG (GERMANY)
KRISTIANA + BAROCK OSLO (SWEEDEN)
TEMPLE OF LOVE OSLO (SWEEDEN)
ROKSY + IT (HOLLAND)
FELLINI + PIU (BARCELONA)
BASH + LE BAIN; MIAMI (USA)
WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE 97 & 98 MIAMI (USA)
ZOUK CLUB (SINGAPORE)
BYBLOS & PASCHA (RICCIONE - ITALY)
IL CICLOPE (PALINURO - NAPLES - ITALY)