Idriss D

Idriss D grew up in a musical family in Algeria: his grandfather Zerouala El Aarbi was a well-known musician there. Radio shows he taped every evening and his friend Nadir, a DJ from Constantine, pulled him toward funk and disco. In the early 1990s the Algiers DJ Chafik invited him to play for the first time, after Chafik's own set at the Rai Hamidou club.

In Italy he worked at the insurer INA for three years, then opened a record shop and began throwing small parties in Mantova. His label Memento has released Carl Craig, Luciano, Ten Walls and The Analogue Cops alongside producers such as Lino Pugliese and Acirne, and runs a weekly party at Macarena in Barcelona. He also founded the agency dbArtists, which partnered with Minus, Clonk and Freak N Chic and went on to represent Cadenza and Luciano. He has played Tresor, Watergate and Rex.