Pacha NYC presents the start of something great with Benny Benassi on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010. Hot off appearing on the infamous DJ Hero game from Activision, Benny is ready to kick off his Pacha Residency with a post-NYE bang!
Benny Benassi was born in Milan in 1967 and then grew up in the provincial town of Reggio Emilia, Italy. He started dj-ing when he was still at school and has been producing with his cousin Alle Benassi for about ten years at Off Limits studios. His first as a producer was with the track "I feel so fine" by KMC featuring Dhany which went to #1 in the UK club charts in 2001. The following year, working under the BENNY BENASSI presents THE BIZ trademark, Benny and Alle came up with "Satisfaction" and in one fell swoop ravaged the dance floors and dominated sales charts round the world. The album Hypnotica followed. In the meantime Benny and Alle produced more melodic dance music under the Benassi Bros. alias. The Benassis have also remixed artists such as Outkast, David Guetta, Moby, Goldfrapp, Paul Oakenfold, Faithless and Public Enemy, to name but a few. Benny has won tons of prizes and awards around the world and continues to tour the five continents with his unique style, once described as "electro, sort of house-tec, dirty and cool, sweaty and smooth."
In 2008 Benny and Alle won a Grammy Award for his remix of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise". His own productions are released through Energy Productions in Italy and Ultra in U.S.A. At the same time, Benny talent scouts for his own brand new label, Pump-kin, designed to create space for young DJs and producers of electronic club music.
Currently hot off a huge feature in Activision's new game, DJ Hero and a new release "Electro Sixteen" featuring the legendary
Iggy Pop, Benny shows no signs of slowing down in 2010. Benny was also recently voted #26 in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJ's Poll, up 13 slots from last year.
Listen to Benny Benassi Radio here> www.bennybenassi.com/radio.
