Tony Z

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I picked up my first 12" when I was 12-years old and have been in the mix ever since. Over 28-years on the decks with 18-years in nightclubs, radio mix show and the last 11-years online.

My club DJ career was launched in Boston in the late 1980's, at the popular roller rink and dance club, Spinoff/Dance Factory. At the time, I was a member of the Boston Record Pool, which was run by the late Arne Ward and former Kiss-108 FM jock, Tadd Bonvey.

In 1988, I was a founding employee of the Mega-Mixx DJ Remix Service, which quickly became one of the top DJ remix services in the U.S.A., competing with Ultimix, Hot Trax and Mixx-It. As the money rolled in, one of the three individual founders began embezzling funds and forced the company into bankruptcy. What was a promising operation turned into a criminal investigation.

As Mega-Mixx dissolved, I was climbing the ladder as one of Boston's most promising club DJs.

In 1990, I joined on as a founding member of X-Mix Productions , a record label, DJ remix service and artist management company. Still in operation today, X-Mix is home of legendary house music DJ/producers, Armand Van Helden, Todd Terry, DJ Sneak, Junior Sanchez and Lenny Bertoldo among others.
While at X-Mix, I ran the underground hip hop labels, AV8 Records and secured much of Armand's original remix work, including the Lighting Seed's "Jackie Lucky," Capella's "You Got To Know," Jimmy Sommerville's "Heartbeat" and many more.

In 1991, I and was recognized by Billboard Magazine as one of the top DJs in the country and appointed to the panel reporting to to the Billboard Club Play Chart.

In 1994, I parted ways with X-Mix. About a year and a half later, I launched the pioneering DJ culture web site, Netmix.com , the first web site to broadcast the world's most sought after DJs in the mix. From mix sets by Armand Van Helden and Little Louie Vega to DJ DB and Paul Oakenfold, Netmix was and still is recognized as one of the most influential DJ culture web sites in the world. Today, I operate Netmix solely as an outlet for my DJ and house music programming skills using the Live365.com network, which allows me to stream the best house music tracks 24-hours a day over the Internet.

As far as my DJ career goes, I've held residencies and guested at top NYC venues including Twilo, Tunnel, Limelight, Cheetah, Abaya, the Soho Grand, Bar Code, and Culture Club.

In Boston, throughout the late eighties and early nineties, I'd become one of Boston's top club DJ's, spinning house music, euro-dance, trance, disco, soul, and funk classics at venues including Roxy, Europa, Axis, Avalon, Venus DeMilo, Karma, M80 and The Loft.

In addition to my DJ experiences, I've done a bit of A&R, artist management, promotion, marketing, and interactive multimedia product development in the online music space. On the recording side, I signed DJ Phenix to UK's Defected and managed Prince Quick Mix (PQM), securing a number of remix projects on Perfecto, Atlantic, Epic an Logic Records, including the deep house mix of the Doors classic, "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You."

My extensive dance music and dj culture experience led to speaking opportunities on Internet music panels at the Winter Music Conference, Amsterdam Dance Event and Billboard Dance Music Summit. Most recently, I represented Netmix on the Media and Marketing panels at WMC 2006 and guested at New York University's MBA Music Forum for StarStyle.com, where I am Vice President of Music.

StarStyle gives fans the opportunity purchase the styles used in music videos, tv programs and films. We work with television shows including American Idol and high profile recording artists including Mary J. Blige, The Game, Joan Jett, Nickelback and others.

In 2001, I received the cable industries top honor, a Communicator Award, for my work developing the New York Music Rundown, which was New York City's first local video on-demand music magazine. I have also appeared in a number of magazines, including the UK's DJ Magazine, MixMag, New York Times, Time Out New York, URB, and BPM.

In addition to the online radio componenet, I write a blog at Netmix.com/Wordpress. and run an affiliate DJ Shop through Amazon.com

In 2006, I spent much of the year reconnecting with friends, colleagues, aquaintances through a varity on online media outlets in preparation for getting back out there, on the one's and two's. Although I currently use TraktorDJ for all my mix-sets, I'll soon be investing in Serato Skratch to incorporate into my arsenal of DJ tools.