Kid Creme (born Nicolas Scaravilli, 1974)Hey Mr DJ: What's the name?
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producer and DJ. He is of Italian descent.

Biography

Kid Creme's formative years were spent learning to spin hip-hop and studying music theory and classic piano. After he was expelled from music college in 1991, he decided to set up his own home studio inspired mainly by the

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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

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at the Theatre of Vaudeville. Kid Creme spent four years as assistant engineer at Let's Go Studios, where he met his DJ partner and close friend Vito '

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' Lucente. In 1994, Kid Creme set up his own label DTM Recordz and was offered a

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deal by R&S Records. At the same time Kid Creme was releasing house records through UK label Drop Dead Discs. It was Kid Creme's house remix of "Boom on Drop Dead" that caught

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's eye, and remixes for

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and Topazz followed. PIAS offered Kid Creme a recording contract 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", gained support with Dave Angel,

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and

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. 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, Kid Creme's techno productions were going from strength to strength. In 2001, Kid Creme's first production under that name 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. Two following releases for Distinctive, "Niquid EP" and "Down & Under", did equally well with critics and sales. Kid Creme came back with a bootleg of Raw Silk's "Do It To the Music" and renamed it "Hypnotising". The single was released by Positiva and reached number 31 in the

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. Kid Creme's remix of "At Night", a song by Shakedown, was ''Seven'' magazine's 'Single Of The Week'. When

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played it at the Big Beach Boutique, he was watched by 250,000 people. Upon hearing it whilst visiting her label,

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asked Kid Creme to remix her single "

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Discography

Singles

*2000 "Austin's Groove" *2001 "Private Tools" *2003 "Down and Under" *2003 "Hypnotising" *2004 "Everybody"

Remixes

*2002

Shakedown Shakedown may refer to: * Shakedown (continuum mechanics), a type of plastic deformation * Shakedown (testing) or a shakedown cruise, a period of testing undergone by a ship, airplane or other craft before being declared operational * Extortion, ...

- At Night *2002

- "

" *2003 Pique & Nique - "You Will (Miss Me)" *2004

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- Inside All The People

Mix compilations

*2003 Junior Jack and Kid Creme In The House (

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)

References

External links

Kid Creme at Discogs Kid Creme at Myspace
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