DJ Romain (US)

Artist

In high school Romain started going to a lot of out door parties to listen to the DJ’s play. Romain knew from that moment on he wanted to play music as well as creating it. Romain then started going to clubs like Paradise Garage & Club Zanzibar where he was influenced by the sounds of Larry Levan & Tony Humphries.

He then started playing at local clubs and private parties. Romain got his big break through. Opening up for dj Smash at new york’s famous after hours underground club called “Save The Robots” and in six months became the resident DJ. After a few years there, he got hired by other NY clubs as resident DJ such as Palladium, Limelight Tunnel, Club Exit, Centro Fly, Sound Factor Bar, and played many times as guest DJ along side dj’s Francois K. Joe Clausell & Danny Krivit at Body & Soul from “97 to 2000”. In the late 90’s he started getting noticed more and started to get dj bookings around the world. Romain decided to start producing his own records and releasing them. His first release was on Strictly Rhythm records in 1991 called “Get Your Thang Together” under the alias EMENAR 1. Romain then went on to release his work on many ther labels in the US and Europe. In 2000 Romain started a label with superstar dj & producer Jon Cutler called “Metro Trax ”where he released his world wide smash hit “Philly’s Groove” which got

major air play on UK’s Radio1 by Danny Rampling and was produced by Danny Krivit and himself Recently Romain has been touring europe, bringing his unique style & brand of house music which has elements of deep tech, afro beat, and classic house from early 90's,he also has been playing his own produced trax with colaborations with (Robert Owens, Darryl D Bonneau, Jon Cutler) and others, he has teamed up with an up and comming dj(Vincenzo Siracusa) and 2gether they go as(THE PLAYERZ) with releases comming out on (underground collective) 2012 currently Romain has remixes on labels like waking monster,Muted Trax, Open bar music, Ospina Digital, Soul Heaven, and many more.

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