Diego cK Family

Diego is working in the club scene since 1989! He´s owning cK Family records and he is in partnership with Pressology Distribution and Malatoid records. Head promoter at parties like DeesFactory, RePlay and ReWind at Factory club, Fire club, The Den&Centro and LightBox. He is actually a DC7 resident dj in London at EGG club and he is living between Tenerife and London where he is playing resident for different clubs and promotions! DIEGO FAVA - aka Diego cK - was born in Naples in 1974! Grew up with his own turntable and buying records as much as possible since he was 5 years old. At the age of 15 he organised his first party on 1989 NYE, his first gig as a dj mixing with "emergency" equipment made of a turntable and a tape recorder. From then on his major target became to guarantee his friends and public were having fun, no matter what! He started in the underground scene as a promoter organising parties at Le Dune complex in Naples between 1994 and 1997. During that time a whole array of big djs such as Rino Cerrone, MarcoCarola, Mario Piu, Ricky le Roy, Stefano Noferini, Alessandro de Cilia, Eros Baldinotti, Roby J, Damon Wild, Christian Hornboster, Zen Paradox aka Steve Lawer, David Holmes and Sonic (X-Press) played there. In 1998 Diego cK became a professional dj and started to play in various clubs in Naples alongside djs like Dave Camacho and Marshall Jefferson. He also had a few gigs in south Italy and Jaiss in Empoli, where he played alongside Joy Kiticonti and the Metempsicosi’staff. What can we say about his music? At the time it was a mix between progressive house and techhouse. It is only after organizing and playing at two editions of the Free Energy Party in Caserta (Old River Club) that he started to consider moving to London. Inspired by the 20 djs from London like Chris Liberator, Geezer, that played at the party, he met with the promoter of the festival-Marcolino- and thanks to him managed to play for the first time at the George Four in Brixton-London-. In the summer of 2003 he finally moved to London where he started to play in small bars and clubs while in the summer of 2004 cK FAMILY was born in Camden Town starting from a friend house party every last Thursday of the month in Diego's own flat!!! A big step forward took place in March 2005 when he became resident at Club Aquarium thanks to promoter Fabio Sberla. Diego rediscovered slower BPM and started to become interested in electro and deep music. The duo partnership took them on the river Thames where they started the famous and long talked about boat party... The breakthrough came when Diego met Dj MV Porter, who introduced him to Nick and Kelly, the managers of Factory Club. From April 2006 Factory became the cK Family’s official empire, residence & home! Together with his carismatic girlfriend Naty, Diego started Deesfactory. Deesfactory continued to develope itself to become a must for many clubbers and djs alike. In the meantime the music changed as well as cK’s elecktro is full of modern minimal and melodic sounds with a deep base that makes it sound warm, sexy and hypnotic, almost like poetry. From August 2009 cK FAMILY moved DeeSfactory to Club Union -a better and more intimate Venue for its sound pumped every week by Diego and his right hand - and amazing solo artist - Dj MB (recently released on Malatoid Records together with Diego cK and Joseph Petrin). DeeSfactory has moved again...and what a move people! For 2010 move Diego picked up just one of the most famous and beloved venues in Europe...Club FIRE! What about the music NOW?? Well of course it has changed from Diego's early ages and it's now full of techhouse contamination. Nonetheless Diego is also one of Antiworld's resident djs (Antiworld has been one of the major names in the London and UK's goa/psy-trance scene). Just to mention some clubs and events where cK Family hosted a room or where Diego cK played:... Brixton Academy, The Coronet, Indigo (o2 Arena), Fridge, The Lightbox, Fire, Twist @ Union club, Pacha, Wild music/Retox@Sosho, Breakfast@Egg, Vertigo, Click, Insomnia, The Dream Temple (Camden Town), MixMag party @ TheEgg, Trade, D-Late, Smartie Partie, Tape @ Platinum, AKA @ The End, Turnmills, Pacha, The Cross, Canvas, The Key, Aquarium, Ministry Of Sound, Scala, Jacks club Crucifix Lane, The Den, 1001, 54, Unit 7, Studio 10, Wipping House, Public Life..... recently for WetYourSelf! at fabric and more , more and more in Italy - UK - Ibiza - Tenerife - Riga - Latvia. Diego cK played alongside many famous djs which they have also been special guests for cK Family's parties: Stefano Noferini, Monika Kruse, Mauro Picotto, Joseph Petrin, Kaiserdisco, Pezzner, Giles Smith, James Priestley, Rino Cerrone, Danilo Vigorito, Joseph Capriati, Markantonio, Gianni Scotto, Dosem, Technasia, Massimino Lippoli, Glimpse, Hoxton Whores, Arnaud Le Texier, James What & Dan Berkson...... and many many more........ In the Psy/goa scene he got involved and played with djs like Infected Mushroom, Astrix, Talamasca and many more! In the 2011 he moved to Tenerife where he is spreading the cK concept and sound in the island. In February 2012 he organized teCKarnival, a successful 3 days festival in the South of the island. In the same year he was a resident dj at WOW! by DC7 & Angels Of Love in London at EGG club! This is Diego's cK story (or history :p) so far! www.soundcloud.com/ckfamily www.pressology.net www.residentadvisor.net/dj/diegockfamily www.beatport.com/artist/diego-ck/137155 ckfamilyrecords.com