Dekky

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DEKKY – (Urban Dance Institution,Le Freak), Ljubljana-Slovenia
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Based in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, Dekky is known as one of the biggest promoters of soulful house and one of most influential DJs of the soulful house sound from south-eastern Europe, founder of UDI Recordings and founder of the Urban Dance Institution production group, Radio promoter and Head of Music at Laguna. These are just a few openers about Dekky who has devoted his life to DJing and to the world’s weirdest invention ;- the vinyl record.
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Dekky started to perform as a DJ in 1988 in a club in Otocec, where he played soul, funk and disco music and prepared a weekly Top 20 show on a local radio station 'Studio D'. It was then that he also came across house music for the first time and shortly after visiting Ministry of Sound in London, decided to devote his career 100% to music. ;
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In 1995 he scored his first residency as DJ and promoter of Saturday house nights at the 'Central’ in Ljubljana. In the meantime he began promoting house music on air with a programme called »Dance Culture« broadcast on Radio Gama MM and later for another Ljubljana radio station RGL. During this time he also organised a notable club tour »Clubbing In Your House« in cooperation with known clubs and DJ's in Slovenia.
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In the year 2000 he visited the Red Bull Music Academy for DJs, producers and remixers in Dublin where he attended workshops lectured by well known international DJs and artists. There he acquired his insatiable inspiration for house music production.
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A year later he started his own house music production imprint 'Urban Dance Institution'. Together with Aleš Bartelj, Mario Marolt and injected with the vocal talents of London singer Lucy May, UDI had their biggest hit 'Like Music' on single, which charted on DJ Mags Hype Charts and was played on stations like BBC Radio 1, Galaxy FM, House FM and Ministry Of Sound Radio. Single also went on double compilation Habitat Collection (Kinky Sweet Recordings) alongside Kings of Tommorow, Barbara Tucker; Kenny Bobien, Michelle Weeks & many more.
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In 2006 he become resident house and disco night DJ in a leading Ljubljana club 'Cvetlicarna' (Flower Shop) where known guests including MN2S, Garage City, Lamerica, Kinky Malinki and DJ's such as ;CJ Macintosh, Bobby & Steve, Neil Pierce, The Jinks and many others performed.
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Dekky has been spinning for known event promotions as Garage City, Lamerica and Kinky Malinki in clubs such as Pacha-London, Matter-London, Bar Rumba-London, Turnmills-London, Liquid-Cardiff, Sirens-Dublin, Fabriq-Austria, Blue & Tantra-Miami... In 2007 he visited WMC in Miami and performed famous event Soul On The Beach with jocks such as Terry Hunter, Jamie Lewis, JellyBean Benitez…. and vocalists as Barbara Tucker, Keith Thompson, CeCe Peniston…. ;Zoo Groove Stereo and Kinky Malinki as well as at the eastern European festival “See Me” where he set turntables grooving at the Chervilo club.
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He also performed at the legendary Slovene club Ambasada Gavioli, spinning alongside the Godfathers of house music Frankie Knuckles and David Morales and other famous jocks as Bob Sinclair, David Guetta, Martin Solveig
From October 2007 he was weekly resident at the prestige Paprika club in Portoroz (Slovenia), where he enraptured his sophisticated audience with a colourful five hours of soulful, deep, jazzy and funky house.
Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Brothers Johnson, Chic, Quincy Jones and many more

Ljubljana Slovenia

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