Marlon D

 

Marlon D is originally from West New York, NJ  Raised and worked in New York City his entire life, coming from a home of latin decent Colombia S.A.

He grew up listening to the sounds of Latin Jazz, Disco, and Motown classics. This is where his passion for music cultivated. Marlon Started his involvement in the music industry at the young age of  13 where he started helping mobile DJ’s with their events. During this time Marlon Developed a found love for music.   Marlon went from promoting events in NYC’s biggest clubs to DJ’ing and Studio engineering. He grew up listening to DJ’s such as Little Louie Vega, Junior Vasquez, Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries, Scott Blackwell, Timmy Regisford and David Morales.

 

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Jellybean Benitez

 

One of the finest remixers and producers during the post-disco days of the 1980s, Jellybean worked with many pop stars during the decade. Born in the South Bronx in 1959, John Benitez was collecting records from an early age; after he attended a nearby disco club called the Sanctuary in the mid-'70s, he became immersed in the growing disco scene and soon became one its best DJs as well as an early producer with his own reel-to-reel machine. After appearances at the clubs Experiment 4 and Xenon, Benitez moved on to such prestigious showplaces as Studio 54 and the Electric Circus. With the dawn of the '80s (and the death of disco), he continued DJing with a residency at Manhattan's Fun House (beginning in 1981), and also hosted a dance show on New York's WKTU.

 

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Tony Humphries

 

Tony Humphries has entertained dance music fans across the globe with his “Hump in the Homefries” brand of uptempo soul music. This Brooklyn, New York native landed his first “professional” DJ gig at Manhattan’s posh Club El Morocco in 1975. From there Tony’s trek to Boystown a.k.a. Club Tribeca NY, NY would prove successful, where he was then recognized as a talented DJ.

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Master Kev

 

 

Master Kev’s victory in a mix-off contest in the 1990’s proved that the years of obsessing over the mixes of Timmy Regisford, Tony Humphries and others on radio and in clubs, studying underground dance and beat syncopation and accumulating a killer collection of records finally paid off . And as the number of shows soared, so did Kev’s talent. Soon after, hero Tony Humphries called Kev to ask him to join forces with him on his Yellorange Label. His answer? A triumphant ‘Hell Yeah’.
After spinning in his first WMC in the year 2000 and embarking on several trips to Europe , Asia and beyond, with Tony Humphries and even solo, his DJ career was officially on the rise.  Also, in 2000 Kev along with founder Marlon D and others helped form the Underground Collective - a collection of DJ’s, performers, musicians..etc created to draw exposure in the dance music industry to major labels and beyond.