June 26, 2010 – LSR – 10:30PM – DOM SERVINI

DOM SERVINI

Dom started DJing in the early ‘90s in Brighton with the legendary Snowboy and, on moving back to London in 1993, started a Sunday afternoon session at the Jazz Cafe, a weekly residency at the Blue Note, and then started his own club venture, Mouseorgan. This residency ran for 8 years and saw Dom Djing with the likes of Jazzanova, Gilles Peterson, Alex Attias and Bonobo. Dom then went on to become part of London’s infamous Wah Wah DJ crew at The Jazz Café, and joined them in their Wah Wah 45s record label project in 2001.

Since joining, Dom has spear-headed the label and steered it into a forward thinking direction with releases from the likes of Alison Crockett, Aaron Jerome, the Part-Time Heroes, Colman Brothers, Hardkandy, Ashley Thomas, Talc and Jamie Finlay, amongst many others.

Dom was recruited by Straight No Chaser magazine in 2003, He went from writing the occasional review to becoming Single Reviews Editor, and more recently writing major articles for the mag. Since the physical magazine’s demise in 2007 Dom has continued to write for them on-line, as well as contributing heavily to spin-off magazine Shook and writing reviews page for 3barfire.com.

Dom currently records monthly radio shows (and a podcast) for www.milkaudio.com and www.samurai.fm, and has just been hired by founder of Kiss FM Gordon Mac to host a live weekly radio show on new station Colourful FM (available on DAB radio, Sky and the internet). He’s also been interviewed, provided mixes for, and sat in on shows with Bob Jones (BBC London), Nick Luscombe (XFM) and GP(Radio1).

Over the past decade Dom’s workload as a dj has increased enormously. Since 1998, as well as his many gigs in the UK, Dom has played in Bari, Italy (with Nicola Conte,Rainer Trueby & Gilles Peterson), France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Finland, Poland, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia, Belarus, Bulgaria and Estonia. Most notably, in 2005, he toured both the USA and Canada, and also Japan, where he had the honour of playing with UFO, GP and the Jazzy Sport crew, and will return in early 2009. In 2007 Dom debuted in Ibiza, both on the radio and at super-club, Heaven.

Dom holds down two specialist jazz residencies in London (the ‘Favourite Things’ and Jazzin’ sessions) as well as his recent Cargo residency and regular club nights at The Jazz Cafe and various other London venues where he can be found spinning Fela to Dilla!!

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http://www.trustthedj.com/DomServini/bio.php?djid=2199