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Découvrez Annie Mac Bright est une Parisienne. Amoureuse de la musique depuis toujours, Annie mixe sur Radio New York Floor. Paris, capitale de la France, est une grande ville européenne et un centre mondial de l'art, de la mode, de la gastronomie et de la culture. Son paysage urbain du XIXe siècle est traversé par de larges boulevards et la Seine. Outre les monuments comme la tour Eiffel et la cathédrale gothique Notre-Dame du XIIe siècle, la ville est réputée pour ses cafés et ses boutiques de luxe bordant la rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré.
Kenny Carpenter is a DJ who has gone through from every part of nightlife from doing the lights with Walter Gibbons to DJing at Studio 54, where has been the resident DJ for more than 20 years. He’s an old-fashioned entertainer who knows to have a good time, is as dapper come as they and can really rock a party!! In the 80′s his early club experiences lead to his employment as a light technician at the then famous “Galaxy 21” on West 23rd Street, and “The Inferno” on West 19th Street in NYC.
Still hungry for the turn-tables he moved on to spinning records first in small venues, and then inevitably to a Saturday Night Residency in the forever famous, infamous, and world renowed “STUDIO 54” on West 54th Street. After the closing of Studio 54, Kenny was hired as the Saturday Night Resident DJ in a venue the size of an airplane hanger, the 5,000 person capacity Bond’s International Casino. His resulting popularity and increasing fame led to international opportunities in worldwide. Some of his then biggest contemporaries, and still friends to this day, include Francois Kevorkian, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Little Louie Vega, and Tedd Patterson.
He has been long time friends and enjoyed many collaborations with recording artists the likes of Anthony Malloy, Kenny Bobien, and Strafe. He continues to produce and , where possible, forge creative relationships with artists such as Wendy Lewis, Madonna, Jennifer Holiday, Michael Jackson, Robin S., and Majestic K. Funk. On his new website the Living DJ Legend Kenny Carpenter, describes his professional & global function today as a dj/producer, that has become a necessity to help complement and enhance his talent, experience, and professionalism.
It’s time for him to take advantage of the ability he’s acquired to make people, young and older, move, think, and feel, by making his concepts available to all who are interested in the evolution of club music”!!! Kenny Carpenter has had many years of experience working on New York’s number one radio station called WBLS and he’s done many guest sets on KISS FM in London but Producing and Remixing Music has become his latest acquired passion and you can expect some big surprises in the future which include new productions for Madonna, Kenny Bobien, Kathy Brown, Shaun Escoffery and Wendy Lewis. Kenny continues to travel extensively and perform in some of the most fashionable venues worldwide. Kenny Carpenter inside the radio New York Floor, Djaimin Family.
When thinking about Tony Humphries, you might be minded of his epic stint at KISS FM-NYC as one of its greatest Mastermixers; or of his residency at one of the greatest US clubs, The Zanzibar; or, even, the walls that are lined with gold discs, from Indeep to Janet Jackson; or his legendary eclecticism for throwing whatever works into the mix, from The B-52’s or Rhythim Is Rhythim to Blaze. Heck, Tony Humphries is, of course, all of those things and more. But then, there’s the Tony of today, restless, questing, searching for new challenges. Which, when you think about it, is pretty much how Tony has always been.
Few people realize just how deeply steeped in performing Tony Humphries’ family is. His father, Rene “El Grande Combo” Humphries, an émigré from Colombia in the 1950s, was a prominent bandleader in New York, heading his New York Combo for many years alongside peers like Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri. His uncle was the radical dance choreographer Eleo Pomare, while among his cousins are Keiann Collins, a Hollywood producer. The gifted guitarist (and Tony collaborator) André Lasalle, the actor/producer Kenneth Dixon and the dancer/choreographer Jian Piere-Louis who, says Tony, “wants to learn Djing from me, friggin’ crazy!” Tony and family are pretty much the Jackson 5 of Brooklyn.
Tony Humphries has now been DJing nearly 35 years, an incredible achievement that in any other industry would have been rewarded with a carriage clock, service medal and a free bus pass. His big break came through a chance meeting with Mastermixer Shep Pettibone at the offices of Prelude Records. A shy Humphries handed over his 120-minute mixtape to Shep and then forgot all about it.
A few days later, he received the following message from Shep. “Hey Tony! This is Shep Pettibone. I was the chillin’ on the beach listening to your cassette tape, and it was fierce! I work for a radio station in NYC called WBLS and there’s this new radio station starting called Kiss FM and I got a new job there where I’m responsible for 16 hours of music programming.
Do you think you could put together four hours of music and have it delivered by tomorrow afternoon?” Kiss FM became the hottest station in the five boroughs and Humphries’ star rose and his show went on to last for many years both at KISS and, later, HOT 97. His lengthy stints at both stations were not simply an exercise in career furtherment, but a way of introducing new music and acts to the city of New York and further afield.
“The whole purpose of my two hours on KISS is to break new people,” Tony told Muzik. “If you can’t break them they you shouldn’t have the job. Anybody can play to a crowd and play last week’s hits and have people screaming. What does that accomplish? They pay you a couple of hundred dollars and you go home.
People won’t remember you; they’ll remember the records. You have to make them think, ‘that’s the record I heard Tony play at Zanzibar’. If they don’t do that, who are you?” Tony’s shows were widely followed by industry and fans alike – with the same sort of impact and reach to Pete Tong in the UK. Techno don Kevin Saunderson recalled a pivotal moment in his early career. “I told my brother that I was making music now. He’s like, ‘Sure you are!’ So I go back to visit my family in New York.
Tony Humphries is on and ‘Triangle of Love’ comes on in the mix. ‘That’s my record! That’s my record!’ That was so inspirational. It’s one thing to make a record but it’s a different level of excitement to hear it played on the radio.” Although Humphries was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, he has long been associated with New Jersey and the reason for that is his long-held residency at Club Zanzibar in Newark, where he began spinning in 1982. Zanzibar became synonymous with a new soulful electronic sound, labelled the Jersey sound, but with Tony’s hands at the tiller it was a vastly more varied menu than that suggests, since he was there at the birth of house music and helped nurture its development in both Jersey and New York. “It wasn’t like going to a house club or a techno club or a classics club, everything was intertwined,” explains Tony.
“The hours were long, so obviously you didn’t want to hear ten hours of straight house music. If you’re going to pay $15-20 to hear this guy, you want to hear the whole damn spectrum and whatever it is, it better be quality. And, believe me, you had to come with everything possible. Talking Heads and The B-52s don’t sound like Zanzibar/Garage records, but they were. They were just funky records. I think that’s what the Zanzibar’s appeal was.” Tony Humpries & Djaimin family inside the radio New York Floor.
With a career spanning more than 30 years, DJ Djaimin has been from The 80’s The pioneer in the evolution of dance music in Switzerland. From his legendary parties at the Casino of Montreux. Being the first person to introduce the American house sound to Switzerland by inviting NYC radio DJ Tony Humphries. Performing The radio shows on national station Couleur 3 with collaborator Mr.Mike, well know under the name
"Black and White Brothers".In the same Time he made history by producing the first song From a Swiss artist released to Strictly Rhythm Records Nyc "Give You" in 1991 who became N°1 in UK and now a Classic of House Music ... Well known also for compose this international dance hits classics “Pump It Up” and "Put your Hand Up" with Mr.Mike aka the "Black and White Bros".
Djaimin (born : Dario Djaimin Mancini) is one of the top DJs/producers in Europe. Inspired by New York-based DJ, Kult Tony Humphries, the originator of house music, he became one of the first DJs to present live house music on Swiss radio. As the resident DJ at such popular Swiss clubs as the Plantinum Club in Montreux, during the 1980s, 90, 2000 he helped to introduce Switzerland to the irresistible grooves of House Music.
Add to that, he got a tremendous productions and remixes list for various international artists, and himself with top labels collaboration : Tony Records , SlipnSlide , Purple Music , Universal , Warner Bros, etc ... who became Top singles in many countries.see the entire discography of Dj Djaimin : or digitals platform such as Traxsource, Beatport, etc... Djaimin inside the radio New York Floor.