About Me

Basic Information

Gender

Male

Musical Preferance

2-step
Acid house
Alternative
Ambient
Breakbeat
Broken beat
Chicago house
Chill out
Dark electro
Dark psytrance
Deep house
Dirty electro
EBM
Electro
Freestyle
French house
Funky house
Goa trance
Hip Hop
House
Industrial
Kwaito
Latin house
Minimal
New Age
Progressive house
Progressive psytrance
Psychedelic trance
Reggae
Rock
Speed garage
Tech house
Turntablism
UK garage

Birthday

28/02/1981

Hometown

011 Jozi

About me

Playto was born into a family of drummers. Rhythm was something that came to him effortlessly. He played rhythm guitar in his high school garage band (The Strait Jackets) with his musical peers at the time. He later moved on to DJ'ing as his love for house music eclipsed almost every facet of his youth.

His professional DJ career began in 2001 @ Jozi's infamous & legendary (after-hours & somewhat left-off-centre) nite club ... Hideout (Plot 187)....
He was only 20 years old @ the time & was churning out rhythms & grooves onto the undulated Hideout dance-floor & garden (which was strictly for over 25's only) weekend after weekend.

He innately grasped the Point Blank Club DJ role from 'The Hideout Family'. He remained a resident there for almost 3 years which led, inevitably, to the more studio orientated projects & gigs on SA's trendsetting dance-floors while never straying from his purist approach to dance culture.

Finishing 3rd on the Mr. Spencer Underground DJ voting polls confirmed that he would be a pillar in the future cutting edge brand of the South African dance Republic.

He went on to sign his 1st single, "Soul Oasis", to the local 'Mafioso' progressive label, Glotech Africa, which made the top 20 in the Euro dance mp3 download charts in the first two(2) weeks of sales, while working with SA's pioneering house artists on other experimental projects.

Two singles from his debut album 'The Royal Hearts Club' have been released by Italian label, Celatum Project - EP release - with no beatport release to avoid it's initial mass consumption .... Debut album to be launched independently on 01/01/11 via his label Sygnal Muzix with a pre-launch to the members of SA's dance industry portal MrSpencer.com ... more coming soon (GW)

Contact Information

State/Provence

Gauteng

City / Town

Johannesburg

Country

South Africa

Website

www.residentadvisor.net/dj/yahyaamplayto

Education

College / University

Hideout Dj University ;->

Graduation Year

2004

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