FRANCO DE MULERO

Born in the Balearic island of Mallorca in 1975 and raised on the island of Ibiza, FRANCO DE MULERO also known has Ibitaly or Kings Of Groove has been a DJ and music producer for more than three decades.

House Music is at the heart of everything he does, but it comes in many different shapes, styles and sizes and Franco is not afraid to showcase it all at the same time, is arguably one of the most influential figures in club music in Spain: past, present and future. He has become one of the definitive figures of the Balearic sound where he performs at all of the most popular and iconic Clubs & venues on the island Space, Privilege, Pacha, Amnesia, Es Paradise… and he has a long standing residency at El Divino Ibiza for 6 years.
There are very few artists who can be said to have remixed and collaborated with numerous legendary artists such as David Morales, Roger Sanchez, Ultra Naté, Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley, Full Intention, Bob Sinclar, Inner City Band, Gregor Salto, Ann Nesby, Roisin Murphy, Blank & Jones, Supernova, Joeski, Lenny Fontana, Alton Miller, Hector Romero, Jay J, Marlon D, Boddhi Satva, Harley & Muscle, Pablo Fierro to name a few and established producers and Franco has been one of them.
He has released records on the best house labels around the world such as Def Mix Productions / Strictly Rhythm / Nervous Records / King Street / Salted Music / Nite groove / D-Tension / Underground Collective / Floorplay Music / Stealth Records / Pacha Recordings / Ultra Records / Maya Records / Lapsus Music / KMS Records US / Nocturnal Groove / Milk & Sugar Recording / Universal Music / PornoStar / Stereo Productions / Skint / BMG / Purple Music / Soulfuric / Hed Kandi / For The Love Of House and far too many others to name a few.

Franco has also released an album ‘Auténtico Baleárica’ in collaboration with the german duo and legendaries Blank & Jones which in only a few hours reached the #4 German iTunes electronic Chart. He has also mixed/created various other compilations including ‘El Divino Ibiza 2007’ & ‘2008’, and ‘Savannah Ibiza Beach Club vol.1’

As well as running his own label Kings Of Groove Records releasing tracks with artists such as David Morales, Mr V, Rocco Rodamaal, Hector Romero, Harley & Muscle, Alton Miller, Roberty Ownes, Michelle Weeks, Steve Edwards, Andrea Love and many more..

Franco also hosting one successful weekly radio show For The Love Of House on La Mega FM in South America, Radio 105 FM in Italy and Ibiza Radio One in Ibiza with special guest Dj´s such as Danny Rampling, Michael Gray, David Penn and more.
He has been nominated several times for several electronic music awards at the Ron Barcelo / Deejay mags and DJONERS, such as ´Best DJ Club House’, ‘Best production of the year’, ‘Best Dj House’ and ‘Best Dj of the year’. In 2008, Ron Barcelo/DeejayMags he was awarded the ‘Best production of the year by Kings Of Groove’ and in 2009 he was again awarded by Ron Barcelo/DeejayMags as ‘Best resident DJ of Ibiza’.
Franco has played in the best clubs and festivals around the globe with his brand, For The Love Of House, from Ibiza to Moscow and from London to Singapore.
He is a Balearic House master who never fails to bring the party wherever he plays.

DJ ELIAS

Elias started his career in 1990 in Palma de Mallorca, and in 1994, after having played in the best Mallorca clubs, he decided to take his chance in Ibiza where, just arrived, he signed up as resident DJ at “Space” on a very special date for him: the 6th of August, the day of his birthday.

From then on, his career spread out at international level, opening him the doors to Paris where just after the Ibiza season, he became resident DJ at the “Queen”, the most popular club in the city.

Once there, he got influenced by the French Touch, Balearic Beat and the 90’s New York Sound, a particular sound played at Kit-Kat that took place in the VIP room of Le Palace, the most elegant afterparty that he had ever seen where people danced the night away until midday on a deep sound, and that changed his concept of what was an after hours, since until then he believed that in an after you had to put mandatory harder styles like techno… But of course; the Parisians were very refined with music and that was part of the “French Touch”

In his career he has been invited to clubs of international reputation like Space, Ku, Privilege, Pachá, Ushuaïa, Amnesia and DC10 in Ibiza… Queen, Le Mix , Djoon , Le Palace and Les Bains Douches in Paris, and many other clubs in Europe, America, Asia and Middle East. And for big fashion events like “Bread & Butter Barcelona”.

He currently lives in Balearic Islands and he’s resident DJ at “La Démence” at FUSE Club in Brussels since 22 years. Which makes him the resident DJ with more years of seniority in this party.

He has produced for record labels as Bedrock Records, Stereo/Iberican Recordings and Stomp Recordings, this latter he set up with his associate José de Divina.

He also worked for Wagram Music, the French label with which he recorded the compilation “WADKlubmix by Elias/Paris/Ibz” and issued by the prestigious WAD Magazine.

Almost 30 years of experience and personality are reflected in his sets, where he always creates newly fresh and elegant playlists in any of his favourite styles: deep house, afro house, nu disco, house or tech house.

On the production side, he realised different works with the Stomp Productions group, where titles like Tijuana “Groove is in the air” stand out among others: this latter was remixed by Simon and Moonface and recorder in a double vinyl by Bedrock Records. The disc sold over 30.000 copies – an outstanding success for an underground production – and later recorded also in different compilations of Global Underground – like the ones by Danny Howells, Jon Digweed and Hernan Cataneo.

It should also be mentioned “Burning Drums of Fire”, remixed at that time by Marcello Castelli, released by Iberican Recordings (a sub-label of Stereo Productions) and many other compilations as well, like the one from DJ Chus.

His last productions “El Sol” is a resounding deep house theme published by the French “Nu Deep Music” and distributed by the famous Italian label “Gotta Keep Faith”. And “Reencuentro” in co-production with Jose de Divina and released by the Swiss label Gimmik Records.

JAY-J

Spanning a career with over 200 releases, he won in 2003 a Grammy® for his re-mix of Jill Scott’s “He Loves Me”, had his own Coke® bottle for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, DJ’d the 2006 MTV® AVMAs and launched two comp series for Defected.

He has also re-mixed the music of other notable artists including Joss Stone, Airpushers featuring Motown’s legendary Lamont Dozier, Alicia Keys, David Gray, Lil’ Kim, Koffee Brown and gospel great, Donnie McClurkin and has collaborated with producers from Kaskade to Miguel Migs. In 2006, JAY-J performed live at the 2006 MTV Australia Video Music Awards, hosted by Ashlee Simpson, also he produced and released over 20 re-mixes. JAY-J then released his latest compilation CD, ‘Re:Souled | The Shifted Music Remix Collection’ and the Latrice album, ‘Illuminate’ (Ultra), which he co-produced with Kaskade to wrap up the year. 2007 kicked off with the release of ‘JAY-J & Friends Volumes 1-3’, the complete collection of re-mastered tracks from his Moulton Studio Recordings and Multitracked catalogues as well as select classic productions spanning the past years.

As both a DJ and Producer, JAY-J has consistently generated quality like very few can. With over 200 productions released to date, you’ll see his name on the biggest releases from Ultra, Moulton Studios, Om records, Naked music and Defected, his peers consider him one of the most influential, respected and prolific individuals in the industry.

Fans can expect more innovative and unique productions from his new label, Shifted Music, and hear them “live”, as JAY-J continually tours the globe, sharing the music he’s been so passionate about for the last 20 years, and that has made him a House music icon.

“Undoubtedly a legend in House Music…”