DJ RICO
Soultrain Weekender


Rico’s extensive DJing career began as a weekend hobby with a local sound system aptly named ‘Ballistic. Aptly named because his natural charm and flair for entertainment shot him to fame with his very first residency, club DJ and promoter at the infamous Bojangles nightspot.

This first foray into the club scene in the north of England ran so successfully for over 2 years that popular demand and reputation meant the inevitable relocation to London.

During this time Rico favoured the DJing as a more expressive release but became more and more involved and responsible for promoting an endless succession of incredibly successful events to the extent that there were sometimes as many as three separate events on one night.

Rico amassed a lot of experience and made many contacts whilst perfecting his talents, not least his talent for creativity, which eventually took him to Prague. But it doesn’t end there, Rico’s high profile cooperation with ‘Elite Look’ and the MTV Network Europe, led to the creation of the ‘MTV’, ‘Elle’ and ‘Radost Fx club’ party extravaganza, In addition to the creative input for countless parties and events, Rico settled into an incredibly successful residency at the ‘Radost Fx club’ club and built his proprietary ‘Soul Train’ into the number 1 R’n’B party in the Czech Republic.

With such an illustrious career behind him, Rico is still leading from the front with his vinyl in one hand and a microphone in the other. www.mvpmusic.co.uk .

Rico has Mc’ed for Judge Jules, Paul Van Dyke, Angelo Mike and dj’ed along side the likes of karl brown, MJ Cole and Elisabeth Troy, lisa Unique, Zena, Formally of Miss Teeq, Daz-I-Que Bugz in the atic, T-Money café de Paris, Femi Fem, lonyo (Bon garson) Dj Mace (del la Soul) Africa Islam, Manny Norte, Matt White, Dj Mase (De le soul), Dj LBR and Big Ali, and Trevor Nelson, Dj krush, Fun lovink Criminials, Shortee blitz but to name a few.

www.myspace.com/ricosoultrain
www.skoop.cz
djmcrico@gmail.com


DJ BIG J
Soultrain Weekender


He was born in St Louis Mo., U.S.A. and spent the second half of his ‘young life’ in the city of Chicago during the 80’s and 90’s. In Chicago, He witnessed the birth of House music and became a regular partier at legendary house clubs like the Music Box and the original Wharehouse during the early 80’s. Soon after, Hip Hop and Rap music began to dominate the urban music seen in the U.S.A. and the focus for my love of music changed to the raw beats and slick ryhmes of early hip hop stars like Run D Mc, Grandmaster Flash, Kutis Blow, The Sugarhill Gang and others. He was and always will be one of the biggest fans of Hip Hop culture and Rap music.

However he find that Rap music (Black moon, Krs one , Wu tang etc,) is a little hard for Europeans to dance to. And, in Europe the dance floor is very important. If you as a dj can’t make the girls dance and scream then your parties will be full of young b-boys drinkin, smokin and nodding their heads. But we know that is not a party!

So, the style of music that he choose to play is R&B/HipHop like Amerie, Destiny’s Child, J-Lo, Usher and R. Kelly with a little Rap for that street flavor. Nowadays, He is playing a lot of Rap because Rap artist like Snoop, Dre, Lil John, 50 Cent and Nelly are making Rap songs for the dance floor .He is however, no stranger to house music. He is a lover of all styles of music from Breakbeat to Ghetto tech, House to Disco. So, it is quite common for him to swing the dance floor from R&B to House and back again. I am not a Turtabalist ,although I do cut and scratch a bit, I am a DJ and I play music to make the young girls scream! And that’s a party Kid!

He also sings and in the year 2000 he hit it big on the Czech Republic’s club scene with a deep house song he wrote and sang with a local dj called ‘Goodbye Illusions’. The song was popular on the Czech club charts and was remixed by the legendary deep house producer Charles Webster and others. He has perfomed this song often over the years in clubs and at parties. In addition, he has written songs for and peformed on the albums of well-known Czech pop stars.

He has played all over western Europe and in places such as Sweden, Egypt, the Ukraine, Belerus, Algeria, Romania and the Slovak republic and have been djing in Prague for 15 years where I have had many monthly and weekly residencies at clubs and bars around the city. The most successful of all of my residencies has been the Soultrain R&B Parties at club Radost FX, which we have been doing , without fail, for more than 15 years now. This is the best R&B party in The Czech Republic and our dj’s are the best R&B dj’s from Prague, France, London and as far as the U.S.A.

He has had the pleasure of djing with people like of Afrika Islam, Mj Cole, Darryl Pandy, Femi Fem of the Young Diciples, Artful Dodgers, Dj Maceo of De La Soul, Guest Love of the Roots, Wesley Snipes and many others well-known names and faces. Every week on Saturday night we blend R&B, Rap, HipHop,Bhangra and Ragga to create an atmosphere that is hard to forget! I play all styles of music. My specialties are R&B, Breakbeat & Funky House.


DJ 12PLAY
Soultrain Weekender


DJ 12PLAY Born in Mali (West Africa) there is a big probability for you to became a musician, in the worst case, you will be a big lover of music. That is why Dj12Play could stand the power of music. Everything started at the student hostel, during celebration, it wasnt easy to find somebody to play for 20 different nationalities, but Dj12Play had always the courage to propose himself and stand it well..

That became a big impuls for him to start a Dj career, which started in Klub 11 at Strahov (student hostel in Prag), truth BarClub (legendary reggae club in Prag at the beginning of the 90's), Tam Tam, Roxy, Radost,etc... Dj12Play styl is a combination of R'n'B, Hip Hop, reggae, Raggamuffin, Dancehall and African beat, to make you move.

That is a reason, he is one of the pioneer of the styl call in Prag as "black music", playing on Soultrain from the very beginning and he is one of the best R'n'B dj avaible in Prag.


DJ KWÉ
FX Bounce


Kwe is a well established party DJ on the czech club scene across the country and beyond. He is now based in Prague even though he comes from the northern Bohemia. He is the originator of the popular FX Bounce party in the one of Prague’s most legendary hotspots, Radost FX (www.fxbounce.com). During his DJ Career he had opened for Methodman show or played at the famous Heads & High party for 2500 people near Brussels. For several years he was involved with the Bbarak Hip Hop Magazine as an online editor and chief of promotions for the Depo Crew resposible for the large festivals such as Hip Hop Kemp, Urban Rapublic, Semtex Culture and others. Since 2005 he is focusing on his own projects which include the serious party Djing, development of web portals and retail servers and other business activities. In 2007 Kwe founded 360 Production and in August of 2007 organised the t-music Hip Hop Jam festival in Mimon Airport along with his partners. Currently he is preparing the second annual festival and sharpenning his DJ skills.
Myspace profile: www.myspace.com/kwero
Contact: ales@hip-hop.cz, phone: +420 737 778869


DJ GEN DILINI
Lollypop


Gen Dilini relationship with dance music began back in the early 80‘s, he was particulary influenced by artists such as Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, C&C Music Factory, Michael Jackson or Jean Michael Jarre. He emurged on the club scene during his studies in Mexico City in 1994 where he hit the decks for the first time as a perfomance DJ in club Fizz.

His dream to play in Radost came true in 1998 when he was guest dj on the party DISCO 2000 – TOP CZECH DJs. One year later he became one of the first czech DJs to attend the Red Bull Music Academy in Berlin and the same year he releases his first track on the label DJ World Plus. Gen then started the booking agency PhatHouseFactory, which was responsible for the bookings of prestigious names appearing in Czech Republic such as Mark Wilkinson (Ministry Of Sound), Ian Carey (Defected Records), Kats Imai (Twisted Records America) to name a few.

In 2000 he won the remix competition for the track Lucky Boy from legendary movie SAMOTÁŘI and the track is released with another 12 tracks on the official movie soundtrack by Warner Music ČR. Then there are releases of his remixes for Tata Bojs, Pavel Vítek and his own track „My Sweet Baby“. In 2001 Gen became resident of PHAT FX night in Radost FX club and he regulary presents new house albums on the JET SET show on KISS FM radio. With such success behind him there was no stopping Gen, in 2004 he teams up with the group ‚Laura a její tygři‘ reproduce 2 remixes for them ‚Toulám se městem‘ and ‚Sedum dní‘ released on the album ‚Vyškrábu ti oči‘. In the same year Gen makes an official compilation for London label AfroArt Records, of which 20000copies were distributed In Czech republic as an attachment of Ultramix magazine.

In 2007 Gen returned to Radost FX not only as guest DJ but mainly as a graphic designer. His designes of flyers are valued in best flyer contests across the Czech Republic. During 2007-2009 Gen djed in Radost on Subliminal Night, Remember House, Family FX, Dance 2 Dance a Lollypop. 2009 see Gen-D as a resident DJ of Lollypop party together with its founder, legendary DJ Vilém.

MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/gendilini