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Vito Benito first emerged on to the dance scene in 1993 whilst working for the legendary Belgian label Antler Subway (inventors of New Beat). Whilst working for Antler he remixed and produced tracks for Jade 4 U – singer and extraordinary front woman for Praga Khan and Lords of Acid. During his stay in Belgium he also remixed Transformer 2’s glorious ‘Pacific Symphony’ and produced the Album ‘Surfing on a Cosmic Wave’ by the Cosmic Surfers.In 1994 Vito journeyed to London and teamed up with Producer/engineer Rich Johnstone also known as John Paul III. The pair formed Nuff Productions and over the next few years produced some of house music’s most original tunes – Bluntfunkers ‘God’s an Astronaut’ and Nuff Sisters ‘Serious situation’ being two examples. These tunes brought them to the attention of many of the hot labels of the time including Multiply and Pukka for whom they remixed many Artists including, Ginny, Circuit (Shelter me) – they even made PJ and Duncan sound credible.Bluntfunkers ‘God’s an Astronaut’ made No 2 in the Billboard dance chart and the follow ‘Move Around’ was signed to Strictly Rhythm in New York. Both these records had groundbreaking mixes by Vito’s friend StoneBridge and helped to establish progressive house.Vito Benito and John Paul III remixed many top Artists, Letitia McNeal, Duke, Wayne Marshall
Sam Ellis, Rhythm Factor, Blue Bamboo, Sexus and many more.By the end of the 90’s Vito and John Paul III went their separate ways, but Vito continued with Nuff Productions – teaming up with StoneBridge to write and produce 1998’s huge Club hit ‘The Hook’ by Radical Playaz – this was signed to Tall Pauls label in the UK.Vito was also having club success with his own tunes notably ‘Disc Jockeys’ which made it on to Fantasia’s compilation having been requested by both Allister Whitehead and Jeremy Healey. Never really able to take himself that seriously ‘Disc Jockeys’ contained a vocal sample from Howard Stern’s film ‘Private Parts’ and ended with the immortal line ‘I don’t wanna be one of those Disc jockeys running around the country looking for work all the time – I don’t wanna end up like that – it’s so sad’1999 saw Vito take a break from the daily rigours of producing and mixing to start an internet business – however – during his period away from the business he took up DJ’ing which he had been desperate to do for some time. Mainly so that he could truthfully answer the ‘what do you do?’ question truthfully by saying ‘I am a Producer and DJ’. Previously when he said this his mates would say ‘You never DJ’d in your life’ to which he would reply ‘Doesn’t stop Dj’s saying the same thing………………….’Returning to Producing and Remixing in 2003, Vito also started DJing in venues such as Stockholm’s “Le’ at Berns where he had a residency playing party breaks of which he is a big fan. Since then he has played in Paris, USA (Miami and Fort Lauderdale) Italy (Naples) Germany and of course London.Recently Vito’s journey has gone full circle and he is very much in demand again as a producer and remixer – 2007 saw his remixes for Mutya Buena, The Sugarbabes and Britney Spears reach No’s 4. 2 and 1 respectively in the UK commercial Club Chart.
