A very open mind , always thinking of what can happen tomorrow.
I'm creative, and like to laugh a lot. I love my friends with all my heart and love to make new ones where ever I go.
I believe kindness, growth and friendships are important elements to a happy life.
THE STORY SO FAR........
Davide Maffei was born in Brindisi, Puglia in 1978.He approched the ‘House Music’ world in 1994 when he was 16 years old, after being grown up with the influence of acid jazz of talkin’ loud and of Gilles Peterson, the funky and soul classics of 70’s and 80’s … from Steve Wonder to Chaka Khan (his favourite singer).
He learnt to listen to the music and also to play it, getting the hang of two fundamental instruments as the bass and the guitar and playing with a funky group in small pubs in the suburbs of his city. The final turning point happens when, rambling in clubs he was attracted by turntables and mixer and inevitablely his instinct has been rapted by the vinyl sound! So, being inspired from the mixer handling and with a very good knowledge of music, he started to perform in his first nights with a musical program that vary from acid jazz (to which he will always be devoted) to the soul & funky classics of 70’s, starting to learn and study in depth his knowledge of djs like Timmy Regisford, Larry Levan, Francois K, Frankie Knuckles, Louie Vega and Tony Humphries in who he recognize his style and passion devoting himself totally to the house music and to clubbing..
Strong of his great discovery and gifted of an unquenchable musical curiosity he starts to work in small clubs and to introduce his sound… In 1998, moving to Milan Davide started to play in some club of the city. At the end of 2000 he started the HouseConnection project that caters to Italy's soulful house scene providing DJ Mixes, Party Pics, Music reviews and promotion for independent records label. Through his incredible dedication to the music and the colossal popularity of the site, Davide began to play in a number of Milano & European clubs, taking his talent to the live audience. In the past few years that Davide has been playing clubs, he holds over 30 venues to his name:
milano hotspots such as Q Club, My Bali, G Lounge, Cafè Solaire , La casa 139 , not to mention the international guest appareance in various european venues like Saulenhalle(Zurich , Swiss) , The Lounge (Hamburg, Germany), Club Vinyl, W and Capitulo V (Lisbona, Portugal), Club & Club Privee (Tallin, Estonia Entrenous (London).
In the year 2002, the join venture with one of the biggest italian wholesaler and retailer music distribution company DeeJayMix, based in Cesena (30 km from Rimini). As head of the Dance Music Department and now and supplying about 30 shops all over Italy, aswell a chain of six DeeJayMix shops (Rome, Bologna , Firenze , Ancona , Riccione) we are not that far if we say that Davide is actually responsible for most of the new and exclusive music you will find over the next weeks and months in some of the best music shops all over the country.
In the year 2004, he begun to collaborate with Italian’s well respected deep house producer Harley & Muscle, promoting compilation like ‘HI JAZZ’, ‘SAVANNAH IBIZA’, and other cds for various fashion shops & clubs as “CAFE’ SOLAIRE” and “G LOUNGE” in Milan with their own label called SOULSTAR RECORDS distribuited all over the world. Furthermore, Davide has just compiled for H&M Production a double cd compilation called '5 BEATS’. Inspirated to five clubs on the italian east coast and in Formentera (Spain), a fine selection of Nu Jazz, Nu Soul and Deep House exclusively distribuited in the 5 clubs involved in this project.
In 2005 he joined the On premise Red Bull team and he's actually responsible for driving the image, volume, visibility and consumption of Red Bull brand within the Region of 'Romagna' territory. Main activities are organization and management of Indoor and Outdoor Events, fair and special projects, ocal support to Red Bull International Project.Red Bull Activation in some of the most important Italian Fair (Pianeta Birra Beverage & Co, NightWave/SIB, MotorShow) International Marketing Events Support (Venice Film Festival) International Sport Events Local Support (F1, MotoGP , SuperBike, Motocross MX 1/2, FIS World Cup) Air Extreme (with Italian Aereonautic Acrobatic Team)