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Disc Jockeys/Associates:
- Al Colossi (DJ/Remixer - Kiss 108)
Al remixed many songs in the mid 80s to the early 90s while working at Kiss. Some of the songs he remixed (using a reel to reel) included Alisha, Dead Or Alive & Prince.
Fortunately, I had the opportunity to meet Al while working at Kiss as an intern in the mid 80s. I was able to watch and learn first handedly from one of the best remixers around at the time.
It's beyond me why his studio quality, incredibly professional remixes never made it to a compilation/major label. I was lucky enough, however, to grab about 15 of these remixes right from the masters.
- Armando Rivera (102.7 WBMX/107.5 WGCI/102.7 WVAZ)
- Bad Boy Bill (102.7 WBMX)
- Benson Wayne (102.7 WBMX)
- Carlos Valderrama (107.5 WGCI)
- Cosmo Wyatt
- Darren T/Hi-Fi Rick/Wayne C (95.3 WHRB)
All the great dance music that never made the commercial radio stations in the mid to late 80s could be found here. On the weekends, Harvard University's radio station was the one to listen to. Not only did Darren T, Hi-Fi Rick & Wayne C play the underground dance music that you could only hear at the clubs, but they mixed it incredibly as well. One of the best dance music mix shows at the time.
- Dave Iseman (Kiss 108)
- Dennis Scott (102.7 WBMX)
- Disco Mike Brooks (Power 99)
- DJ Adilson
Progressive/Vocal House DJ.
-Roxy (Boston)
-Tantra (Saugus)
-Matrix (Boston)
-Tabu (Saugus)
-Avalon (Boston)
- DJ Ari Antonio
"Arty" as we called him. He could mix as good as anyone else around. He eventually became an airline pilot.
- DJ Big Easy
- DJ Biggie
House/Hip Hop DJ.
-Club 313 (Manchester, NH)
- DJ Bobby Gallagher
House/Hip Hop DJ.
-Vetro/SkyBar (Manchester, NH)
-WB's (Manchester, NH)
- DJ Bruno
Biscuithead Records
- DJ Captain Wendell
Hip Hop DJ.
-Palace (Saugus)
- DJ Charles Mercer
- DJ Chris Paul
Progressive/Vocal House DJ.
-Element Lounge (Manchester, NH)
-Dover Soul (Dover, NH)
-The Red Door (Portsmouth, NH)
- DJ Chris Profenna
House/Hip Hop DJ.
-Vertigo (Boston)
-Vision (Saugus)
-Europa (Boston)
-Metropolis (Providence, RI)
-Club Q (Boston)
- DJ Chris Willis
Mobile/Club DJ. Once the resident DJ at Town Line for years, he currently spins at Sammy's Patio on Revere Beach in Revere and Desmond O'Malley's in Framingham.
- DJ Chuck Chillout (98.7 Kiss FM)
- DJ Cliff West
- DJ Criss P
Progressive/Vocal House DJ.
- DJ Damian Paul
- DJ Danae Jacovidis
- DJ Danny D (Dan Dellatto)
- DJ Dave Connelly
Mobile/Club DJ.
-Roadhouse (Peabody)
- DJ Dave Natola
Mobile/Club DJ.
- DJ David Guetta
- DJ Deja
- DJ Dez
Freestyle DJ.
- DJ Eddie K
- DJ Eddie Reevz
- DJ Felix Cutillo
Started Boston Beat record store in East Boston in the early 90s. Spun at Rachel's at the Marriott in Boston.
- DJ Gary Cannavo
Working at Narcissus in the Kenmore Club in the 80s, Gary was considered by many as the "Freestyle DJ". If you went to Narcissus at the time, you probably remember the DJ booth with its little ladder and "on the air" sign located high up above the dancefloor. At the time, this was the best nightclub in the city.
He then started Masspool DJ Association in 1989. Originally located on Meridian Street in East Boston (downstairs from the old Dance Music Plus record store), it then moved upstairs to the second floor.
Today, Masspool makes its home on Revere Beach Parkway in Revere.
Gary has also done numerous mix shows over the years for such stations as Kix 106, 94.5 WZOU & Kiss 108.
- DJ Graeme Ritchie
- DJ Gregg Beckett
- DJ Jason Tivey
House/Hip Hop/R&B/Reggae DJ.
-Vision (Saugus)
- DJ Jeremy Rossi
Mobile/Club DJ.
- DJ Jim Thomas
Jim came to Boston from Chicago and spun at Shakers in Salem and Stars in Peabody while living here. He started his own Mobile DJ business and moved back to Chicago.
- DJ Joe Toto
Considered by many as one of the "best in the business", Joe is a pioneer of the Mobile DJ circuit.
- DJ Joey Testa
- DJ John Lopriore
- DJ Johnny C
- DJ Jojo Cookin' Kincaid
Kiss 108 DJ in the 80s.
- DJ Josh Spitaleri
- DJ Julio C Sanabia
- DJ Justin Testa
- DJ Kevin Jones (88.1 WMBR)
- DJ Kevin Quinn
- DJ KGB
Jive 106/Diamond 2 Crew.
- DJ Lenny C (Lenny Cordisco)
- DJ Lou Pereira
- DJ Luigi DeMarco
- DJ Macguyver
- DJ Manny Manolo
Progressive/Vocal House DJ.
-Europa (Boston)
-Avalon (Boston)
- DJ Math
Hip Hop/R&B DJ.
- DJ Matty O (Matty Olsen)
Freestyle DJ at Narcissus in the late 80s/early 90s. Currently a Progressive House/Trance DJ.
- DJ Mike D'Amico
Top 40/Disco/Dance DJ.
-Polly Esta's (South Boston)
- DJ Mike Janedy
Top 40/Disco/Dance DJ.
-Charlie Horse/Shenanigans
- DJ Ninja B (95.3 WHRB)
Mix show DJ.
- DJ Obsession
- DJ Paul Dailey
- DJ Peter Accolla
Top 40/Disco/Dance DJ.
-Deco's (Somerville)
- DJ Peter Chille D (Peter DiPaolo)
Top 40/Disco/Dance DJ.
-The Club (Boston)
-Tabu (Saugus)
- DJ Peter Diozzi
Mobile DJ.
- DJ Peter Schaeublin
- DJ Peter Souhleris
Mobile/Club DJ.
-Avalon (Boston)
-Vertigo (Boston)
-Vision/XLR8 (Saugus)
- DJ Phatty Shadow
- DJ Phil Cohen
- DJ Rich Montgomery
- DJ Rick Naples
Progressive/Vocal House DJ.
- DJ Rip Hernandez
- DJ Roberto
- DJ Ronnie DeAlmeida
- DJ Rosco (Ross Cigna)
- DJ Salvatore (Sal Pintone)
- DJ Smitty (Jon Smith)
Mobile/Club DJ.
-Brothers 4 (Nashua, NH)
-Fasads (Revere)
-Pazzaluna (Saugus)
-Matrix (Taunton)
- DJ Steve Anderson
Top 40/Disco/Dance DJ.
-Tabu (Saugus)
- DJ Steve Sossong
Director of Groove Promotions in Cambridge.
- DJ Steve Spinelli
Mobile/Club DJ.
-Brahmins/Night Games (Somerville)
-Brothers 4 (Nashua, NH)
-Caravan (Revere)
-Charlie Horse/Shenanigans (Lynn)
-Cheeks (Waltham)
-City Lights (Providence, RI)
-Club Q (Boston)
-Deco's (Somerville)
-Diamonds (Lynn)
-Emerald Rose Pub (Lynn)
-Finn McCool's (Boston)
-Guido's (Cambridge)
-Jukebox/Matrix (Boston/Taunton)
-Juliet's (Woburn)
-Kenmore Club (Narcissus, Celebration, Lipstick) (Boston)
-Maxwell Jumps (Boston)
-Michael's Seaside Beach Club (Revere)
-Milly's Tavern (Manchester, NH)
-Mill Hill Club (West Yarmouth)
-Misty's/Apogee (Revere)
-Palace (Rascals/Uptown/China Club) (Saugus)
-Pazzaluna/Vision/Tabu (Saugus)
-Roadhouse (Peabody)
-Shakers (Salem)
-Skybox Dance Club (Marlborough)
-The 3rd Floor At The Gas Light Co. (Portsmouth, NH)
-WB's (Manchester, NH)
- DJ Timmy D
House/Hip Hop/R&B/Reggae DJ.
-Sugar Shack (Boston)
- DJ Todd Griffin (Pharoah)
Todd has been a professional DJ for over 20 years. He started spinning hip hop in 1983 at the now defunct Bermuda Triangle in Boston
at the age of 13 (the youngest resident DJ in Boston at that time).
In 1991, he experienced his first rave party in Montreal and decided to add techno to his repertoire.
Within 2 years his name was synonymous with New England's rave scene. He toured with Juneau Reactor and Moby and played with everyone from Sasha to Deep Dish.
Never giving up his hip hop roots, Todd became the #1 battle DJ in New Hampshire through a series of competitions sponsored by Gemini and Daddy's Junky Music. He has also
been responsible for opening more than 10 highly successful clubs in the Boston area - Zoom, Flow, Tantra, Rezoom & Sphere - to name a few. Todd also was the resident DJ
for such clubs as Axis and Boom (the longest running all night venue in New England history).
After the rave scene died out, he was looking for something new when he received a call from one of the members of This Side Up in the summer of 2003. Through the collective
imagination of everyone in the band, Todd has become (and still is) an integral part of This Side Up's sound and style.
- DJ Tony D (Tony Davis)
Mobile/Club DJ.
-Bleachers (Salem)
-Old Timers Tavern (Gloucester)
- DJ Tony Signorino
- DJ Vinnie Brand
Disco/Freestyle DJ. Spun at Street Lights, Triple O's Lounge, The Edge (inside The Channel nightclub) & Harbour Club - all in South Boston, Nicely Nicely's in Faneuil Hall, Boston, Rachel's at the Marriott in Boston, Narcissus/Celebrations in Boston during the late 80s/early 90s and currently at Pat Flanagan's in Quincy.
- Evan Luck (107.5 WGCI)
- Farley "Jackmaster" Funk
- Frankie "Hollywood" Rodriguez
- Hosh Gureli (88.9 WERS)
One of the best DJs ever in the early 80s here in Boston. Known as the "Mastermix" on 88.9 WERS, he was far ahead of his time with mixing/remixing/editing and everything else in between.
His style of mixing wasn't just mixing "one song into another" like most would do. He would have 3 or 4 songs going at once, then throw some edits in and then go into another 3 or 4 songs (keep in mind, this is back in 1983).
Fortunately, I have many, many tapes of his mix shows that I recorded back then.
Years later, in the mid 80s, I was in a "Battle Of The DJs" with Hosh at Faces nightclub in Cambridge and couldn't believe I was going up against him.
Of course, he won... which was expected.
There are countless amounts of people in the Boston area that can thank Hosh for being an such an inspiration to them - including myself.
- Jerry Warren (Sound Factory/Dance Music Plus - East Boston)
Not a DJ, but worth mentioning here. Jerry was probably known to every DJ within a 100 mile radius of Boston. Not that Everett Music in Everett or Ted Cole's in Salem weren't popular, but Dance Music Plus catered to mostly club DJs and music lovers alike.
From the mid 80s until around 1993, this was the place to go for Imports, Remixes, Bootlegs, White labels and Dance/House/Freestyle Music. When the store closed its doors, other Boston area records stores such as Boston Beat in East Boston and Vinyl Connection in Boston became much more popular.
Jerry did re-open Dance Music Plus once again in the mid 90s in two different locations in Revere, but a short time later closed it down for good.
- Jerry Young (98.7 Kiss FM)
- Jide Max (104.9 WRBB)
Mix show DJ/Remixer.
- Julian "Jumpin" Perez
- Kenny "Jammin" Jason
- Lady B (Power 99)
- Lawrence Levan (Larry Levan)
- Maurice Brown (105.3 WDAS)
- Mickey "Mixin" Oliver
- Mike "Hitman" Wilson
- Mixin' Marc (B96)
- Neil Petricone
Mix show DJ. Neil started up X-Mix (remix service).
- Philip David March (88.9 WERS)
- Ralphi "The Razz" Rosario
- Raul Rocdahouse
- Scott "Smokin" Silz
- Steve "Silk" Hurley
- Steve Gousby (88.9 WERS)
- Steve Picardi (DJ/Remixer - Razormix)
Specializes in remixing, editing & scratching.
- Troy Anthony (104.9 WRBB)
Mix show DJ/Remixer.
- Wallace T (Wallace Terry - 104.9 WRBB)
Mobile/Radio DJ. Wallace also worked at Looney Tunes in Boston.
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