BAS IBELLINI

A picture paints a thousand words, {either - music paints a thousand pictures - or - music takes that picture and mind rapes you with it}. Ibellini started out young in the game, a couple of Memorex cassette tapes. Music was always his first love.

A fixture at house parties all over London by 14, mixing hip-hop and the like for his peers, success came as a side note of minimal concern to him, a year later he found himself spinning at some of the biggest clubs in London, always faithful to his vinyl. He began experimenting with funk, rock and disco, diverting away from the mainstream scene that so epitomizes the mundane. The ibellini journey continued in a similar vein, a couple years later he was throwing his own university parties, F**K we're famous! a jest of a popular commercial night, with an underground basement twist.

A trial set in 2006 at London's Cuckoo Club turned into an atavistic 10 hour party, which evolved directly into a long-running residency which continues to this day, the likes of which have turned Friday nights at Cuckoo into one of the best known parties in town. Ibellini's musical direction at Cuckoo helped influence booking some of the biggest names in electronic music.. Damian Lazarus, Jamie Jones, as well as playing back to back sets with Seth Troxler and Guy Gerber.

The journey into the sordid underbelly of the music scene took Ibellini into more established institutions, gracing the decks at The Cross and The End before they were shut down. Internationally moving around New York, Beirut, Zurich, Ibiza, and is no stranger to the decks at the Ministry of Sound, Electric Pickle, BO18, Ushuaia whilst committing his DJ residency at London parties Unleash and Zombie Soundsystem. More recently Ibellini has picked up a residency at Blue Marlin UAE and New York warehouse party BlkMrkt.

Unsatisfied, Ibellini set out to put his stamp on the scene, creating the 'Peculiar' parties, which are held at warehouses across the east and west of London, cultivating a cultishly 500+ loyal following inspired by the interactivity that 'Peculiar' is all about. Most recent bookings have been Seth Troxler, Guy Gerber, Martinez Brothers, Maya Jane Cole, Dyed Soundorom, Deniz Kurtel, Martin Buttrich and Dan Ghenacia.