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Hailing from Montreal with Lebanese/Persian roots, BiG AL aka BiGz is surely one of the longest serving, globally renowned and respected Middle Eastern DJ around, starting his DJ career back in 1989.

Having fallen in love with music at a very young age, his journey evolved naturally, leading him to the New York underground house sound. BiG AL was among the first to import western club music and culture back to his native Lebanon where he hosted the primary radio show spoken in the English language; playing underground House Music and Disco Vinyl imported from the USA and Europe. But in a civil war-torn country, it was time to spread his wings and search for the source.

Arriving to the USA in the early 90’s, BiG AL became a regular club kid at the Sound Factory, Red Zone, Limelight, Shelter, Tunnel, Twilo, Palladium/Arena, Arc/Vinyl and other seminal venues, soaking up sounds laid down by Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Masters At Work, Roger Sanchez, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Tony Humphries, Francois K., Todd Terry et al.

A true World citizen, over the years BiG AL has lived in the UK, Cyprus, Switzerland, France, Germany, Morocco, the UAE as well as Boston, NYC, L.A and Montreal, Canada. BiG AL has worked and assisted legends such as Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Angel Moraes, Danny "Buddha" Morales, Satoshi Tomiie, Chus & Ceballos, The SBS Slammer “Shorty”, John Creamer, Omid 16B, Nick Warren, Hector Romero, Jay Tripwire and many more in different musical, professional and private projects.

Following a Marketing degree from North Eastern University in 1996 and a computer assisted sound design & engineering degree in 1999, BiG AL started his creative production journey and has since built up an impressive discography of over 700 releases under his own name as well as a multitude of aliases such as BiGz, Beat Factory, Harlem Knights, Audio Lab, Soul Collective and The Suppliers. Over the years BiG AL has produced, remixed and released his music on more than 200 labels, among them Global Underground, King Street, Ministry of Sound, Armada, Toolroom, iRecords, Anjunadeep and Oh! Records Stockholm. His smooth production style is both highly distinctive and deeply rooted in the culture, so much so that he can count on Sasha, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Behrouz, Dave Seaman, Hernan Cattaneo and Nick Warren among his fans.

As well as maintaining a hectic touring and studio schedule, BiG AL owns and manages a group of 6 record labels: Ready Mix Records & Haute Musique (run alongside his wife Zee), Stereo Trip (with Chriss Ronson), Itom Records (with Moti Brothers), Tiny Lamp (with Ellroy) and Diggers’ Delight (with Ribal Rayess & George Chlouk). His original and best-known imprint Ready Mix Records is home to over 400 of the finest house music producers and holds events in Ibiza, Miami, Beirut, Montreal, Amman, Casablanca and Dubai. Ready Mix was also highly praised and reviewed by the media including The Mirror Mag (CA), Mixmag (USA), The Hour (CA), Vice (CA), DJMag (UK), Voir (CA), Daily Star (LB), Our House Mag (UK), Infusion Mag (UAE), DJ Times (USA), XLR8R (USA), Big Shot Mag (USA), Mixer (USA), Time Out (Abu Dhabi & Beirut) and was nominated “the best Montreal Record Label” as well as “the Canadian label to watch” by Toronto’s ‘Klublife’ Magazine.

During a long and fruitful career in the music business, BiG AL has become a real ‘go to guy’ for those in the know, working as a beta tester for Native Instruments and another music download site, director of bookings & artist relations at Montreal’s “Stereo” nightclub (2000-2006), director of bookings & artist relations at Beirut’s club “B018” (2007-2012), talent buyer at club “Projekt” Beirut (2016-Present), International talent buyer at club “Fubar” Amman (2019-Present) as well as the International talent buyer at Abu Dhabi’s club “Cubes” (2008-2010), MENA & GCC exclusive representative for The SBS Slammer (NYC) custom built analog sound system products.
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