dj / producer / radio presenter / journalist / vinyl junkie...

Ennio Styles got involved in production, record collecting and then DJing in Melbourne from his early teens, after realising that he had no future in breaking, graffiti and MCing. His love of the funkiness of Native Tongues-era hip hop and the electronics of early house soon led him to discover and pursue an ever-expanding range of soulful sounds from old funk, jazz, brazilian and latin on the one hand, to detroit techno, drum & bass and broken beats on the other.

His radio show Stylin represents this spectrum, and has brought the likes of Cut Chemist, Herbert, London Elektricity, Mad Mats, Seiji, Oneness of Juju, DJ Food, Metro Area and Badmarsh & Shri to the airwaves through interviews and guest DJ mixes, as well as becoming a focal point for emerging local producers. The Stylin newsletter and playlist is published online and received weekly by hundreds of music lovers worldwide.

Ennio Styles’ DJ sets have been heard alongside Melbourne’s finest jazz musicians as well as visitors like Jazzanova, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Daniel Magg, Justin Chapman (Kemetic Just), Kaidi Tatham, Recloose, Soul Jazz Sound System, Mark Grant, Chris Duckenfield, Charles Webster, BNX and Minus 8. He runs the weekly Open Sesame party with Kano at Honkytonks, regularly DJs at Revolver and other venues and one-off events like Livid and Summadayze. He has been involved in many of Melbourne’s classic nights based in the soulful side of dance music, including Cocoa Butter, Goin Places, Cookin With Gas and Egg.

He is a regular contributor to Australian dance music press including interviews in Zebra, weekly charts in Play and the Trainspotters’ Corner column in TRM, focussing on connections between new releases and the music of the past.

His compilation album Other-Worldly Fusions with regular DJ-partner Kano has been released through Hardware/Shock to glowing praise like “timeless” and “one of the best for 2002”.

Ennio Styles is one of the founders of the Local People record label and collective. His tune Psybossa (with Lanu) features on Local People EP 001, having received overwhelming reactions from global scene leaders like Rainer Truby, Patrick Forge and Straight No Chaser magazine.

Psybossa has been licensed by Spanish label So Dens for the Passport compilation which also features tracks by Blaze and the Strike Boys. It will also appear on Moonlight Recordings Vol 3 alongside Rae & Christian, Llorca, RJD2 and Gotan Project.

Ennio has recently completed a remix of a 1960s Czech jazz tune for London’s Cosmic Sounds record label, to be released in early 2003 alongside remixes from Eddy & Dus, Les Gammas and Nicola Conte. His next remix will be for the highly-respected Compost label.