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________________________________________________ Stefano de MattiaBorn in 1966 in Rome / Italy. First he got interested in classical-music, when he was 13 years old. Then, with about 15 years old, he got his first decks & mixer and he started to buy funky-dance-music, soul ..and ..jazz. From then he went over the years from ambient & new age over trip-hop & underground trance to energy, uplifting & psychedelic-trance. At this point (in 1997) he went to Thailand and started to play at the Santa-Fe on the island Koh Samui. After a short time he went to koh Phangan, looking for the right place to play his kind of music.First he played at the Bongo-pub, an all month opened beach-club on Haad-rin beach. There he played deep-ambient, trip-hop and virtual-music ( like The Orb, FSOL, Shpongle, Saafi brothers) during the month... and on the full-moon-night he played full-on-psy-trance. Then, in august ..98, he also started to play at the Backyard, where the work with dj A (the resident dj of the Backyard), changed his musical mind from full on psychedelic into the more progressive way... Has been a long way through many different styles, for example in ..99 he was into techno-trance, uplifting-trance and nrg-trance in the english way. Then the millenium-season in the year 2000... on the millenium-party on Haadrin-beach he pleased the crowd with a well selected collection of high energetic techno-trance and uplifting trance. In this season also David Archer also known as "Backyard-Dave" and dj Christian (in our link section is also a link to his bio) from Hongkong, next to dj A shared the decks with Stefano. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- "On sunday tuesday and thursday nights, dj A and Stefano mix quality hypnotic sounds with pumping trance and techno. The Backyard is a Koh Phangan legend..." as they say in in a report about the Thailand underground-dance scene in "7" (one of uk..s leading dance-magazines) .... ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- 2001 stefano brought more progressive tunes to the island, ..cause in this music he found the multidimensional way.Over the years Stefano came back many times to play at the Backyard and also to play for Paradise-bungalows on the full-moon-party and by now he became one of the most important members of the Backyard dj-crew, as he is for Synergy aswell. The way he feels and listens to music is a gift. His qualities are the combination of love and deepness and he showed to the international mixed up crowds in thailand more than one time, how special a dj-set can be.In Rome, where he..s living, he..s been playing regularly once a month at the "Metaverso-club" till 2007. He played at the "ex-Magazzini", one of the most important clubs for progressive music in town, ..at ..the "Goa-club", where also dj..s like Timo Maas, Ricardo Villalobos or Kruder and Dorfmeister played already, and also at "La palma club" for a charity party... but he also still loves to play on private-underground-parties in and around Rome. For Synergy he..s one of the start-up-members and he came to Germany to play on nearly every Synergy-party we had till now, and he always gave something special to the people. __________________________________________________________