NickV (FR)

His reputation has grown with the success of the clubs he helped to establish in 2003, when Nick’s genre-flavoured DJ sets led him to hold down major residencies at Guys & Dolls, Otra Otra, Club Disco and Ballroom. These were some of Paris’s best underground nights where he played monthly to the more discerning ears of open-minded and mixed people – gay, straight or both – alongside the likes of Laurent Garnier, Dimitri from Paris, Needs, The Unabombers, At Jazz, Ivan Smagghe, i:cube, Dj Deep, Âme, Greg Wilson, Gilb’r, Erik Rug, Grand Wizard Theodore, Maurice Fulton, Metro Area, Chris Goss (Hospital), ?uestLove …

Nick’s Mancunian origins combined with a Paris-based b-boy and funk background have provided him with a rare blend of music tastes, on which he draws to build his unique sets. His DJ sets rip up any dancefloor and combine music from all genres and periods of music: digging deep into the old school from hip-hop to disco and electro funk, through to the sounds of the future drum & bass, deep house, broken beats, techno soul and far beyond. His dynamic yet smooth mixing skills honed over the years have established Nick as one of the hottest DJs in the French capital.

Today you can catch him every second Saturday of the month at MONA where he spins underground house and disco. He also co-runs EDIT, a midweek residency at LE REX CLUB in Paris, uniting the sounds of today’s beats&soul scene: dubstep, nu disco, garage, deep house. Nick is city chief of 22TRACKS Paris and in charge of the DEEP HOUSE & BEATS playlists with the Edit crew. He is administrator of TECHNOPOL, a non-profit organisation that supports the French Electronic music scene and organises Paris’s Technoparade. Nick is also a part-time ACOUSTICS CONSULTANT in the fields of architecture and engineering.