Check out this exclusive footage of the ultimate tag team Junior Jack & Kid Creme doing their thing for the Defected Party@ Pacha (Ibiza)
My first time in I biza was when I heard the incredible production from the two. The record was called E Samba”. This record is a mix of Brazilian rhythm and funky house. This infectious groove was being played in every venue on the island , Simply AMAZING!. Still to this day the record gets tremendous response from club goers all around! Junior Jack’s album Trust It is a cross between Armand van Helden and Daft Punk. Groovy,Funky,Housey with Punk attitude! One of my favorite complete albums in the past years. A must have for house music enthusiast!
This is a taste of what the House Heavy Weights can do on any given night!
Junior Jack & Kid Crème @ Defected, Pacha (Ibiza) from DanceTrippin on Vimeo.
Biography (Junior Jack)
Junior Jack (real name Vito Lucente, born August 31, 1971, Rutigliano, Bari, Italy) is an Italian-Belgian house music producer and DJ.
In the early years Vito Lucente produced several acid house and eurodance projects, mostly in collaboration with Eric Imhauser. However, his more famous project was as producer of the synth pop/eurorap band Benny B, with vocalist Amid Gharbaoui, DJ Daddy K and dancer Serge “Perfect” Nuet. Lucente left the band after the second album, and he did not produce their last single.
Vito Lucente resided in Belgium in his teen years. In 1995, he abandoned Eurodance and adopted the name Mr. Jack (which would later morph into Junior Jack), dabbling in house music. He entered the UK Top 40 with the singles “My Feeling”, “Thrill Me (Such A Thrill)”, “E Samba”, “Dare Me (Stupidisco)” and “Da Hype”, the latter featuring vocals by Robert Smith from The Cure and uses samples from “I’m So Hot For You” by Bobby Orlando. His album Trust It was released to critical acclaim[citation needed]. “My Feeling” and “Stupidisco” were built around vocal samples from, respectively, “Saturday Love” by Alexander O’Neal and Cherrelle, and “Dare Me” by The Pointer Sisters. His latest single was a remake of “Dare Me (Stupidisco)”, with vocals from Shena, which reached #20 in the UK Singles Chart on 25 February 2007
Lucente has also worked with disco artist Oliver Cheatham under the name Room 5, reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart with the 2003 single “Make Luv”[1] (which used samples from Cheatham’s song “Get Down Saturday Night”).
As a remixer, he has reworked tracks for artists such as Whitney Houston, Moby, Bob Sinclar and Utada. He has worked extensively in this area with partner Kid Creme.
Biography (KId Creme)
Kid Creme (born Nicolas Scaravilli) is a house music producer and DJ, born to an Italian family in Brussels in 1974
Nico’s formative years were spent learning to spin hip-hop and studying music theory & classic piano. After he was expelled from music college in 1991, he decided to set up his own home studio inspired mainly by the London breakbeat scene. At 19 he met Francis Shabard (DJ Murvin Jay) who introduced him to house music and together they secured DJ residencies at Club XXX, the first house club night in Brussels at the legendary Theatre of Vaudeville.
Nico spent four years as assistant engineer at Let’s Go Studios, where he met his DJ partner and close friend Vito ‘Junior Jack’ Lucente. In 1994, Nico set up his own label DTM Recordz and was promptly offered a label deal by R&S Records. At the same time Nico was releasing house records through UK label Drop Dead Discs. It was Nico’s house remix of Boom on Drop Dead that caught Boy George’s eye, and remixes for Junior Vasquez and Topazz followed.
PIAS were not long in offering Nico a label deal for his techno productions. He accepted the offer and now records for his label Deluxe Recordings under the moniker Sharpside. Their second release Critical Freaks quickly gained support on the scene with the likes of Dave Angel, Claude Young, Pete Tong, Carl Cox and Judge Jules caning the record. With Danny Tenaglia supporting track Belgian Resistance, Luke Slater using the track Telsco Drop on his album and Space Cruising getting signed to Dave Angel’s label, Nico’s techno productions were going from strength to strength.
On the house tip, remix requests from labels such as Wonderboy, Pepper, Gut, and Mission Lynx came flooding in. In 2001, Nico’s first production under the name KID CREME entitled Austin’s Groove was signed to Jalapeño Records, who licensed it to Ink in the UK and Subliminal in the US. Eric Morillo added a Shawnee Taylor vocal on the record and it blew up in the club scene. Two following releases for Distinctive, Niquid EP and Down & Under, did equally well with critics and sales.
Kid Creme came back with a strong bootleg of Raw Silk’s Do It To the Music and renamed it Hypnotising. The single was signed to Positiva and reached number 31 in the UK singles chart, despite being a relatively underground record.
Nico’s remix of Shakedown At Night was Seven magazine’s Single Of The Week and, when Fatboy Slim dropped it at Big Beach Boutique, he was watched by 250 000 people. Upon hearing it whilst visiting her label, Kylie Minogue asked Kid to remix her single Love At First Sight.
