Maurizio Schmitz

Ciao my friends,

as my name tells you I’m half Italian / half German guy with my Mama being from the beautiful island of ‘Sicily’. I grew up in a small village near Bonn and have lived in various cities: After some time in Munich working in my father’s company I moved back to my hometown Bonn to studi ‘economy’ . Then lived for seven years in Hamburg where i worked as DJ- & Clubpromoter for promotionagency ‘Public Propaganda’ and for 2 years as artistbooker & consultant for ‘ID&T Germany’ to invent ‘Sensation White’ at the ‘Veltins Arena Gelsenkirchne’. By end of 2006 i moved back to Bonn and then moved to Offenbach in september 2008 working as eventmanager for ‘cocoon’ …

I always had a special interest in music and discovered my passion for electronic dancemusic in the early nineties while listening to radioshows like ‘hr3-clubnight’ or ‘bfbs-experience’. After visiting various techno-clubs & -raves I was overwhelmed by this very intensive but always peaceful & tolerant energy. Then I focussed my thoughts on the ritual of dancing & self-expression and some years and hundreds of mixtapes later I felt that I have to take an active part in this movement by choosing, arranging & playing my own style of music…

While living in Munich in 1996 I got my first official weekly dj-residency at the legendary & infamous ‘Labor’-Afterhourclub. Restless clubbers as well as the whole nightlife-scene of Munich came to the very underground ‘Labor’ to celebrate the ‘Sunday-morning-madness’…often until Monday morning…

(via http://www.last.fm/music/Maurizio+Schmitz)