Marco Carola

Marco Carola was born in Naples on 7 February 1975. He started DJing at 15, when he bought his first set of turntables. By the mid-1990s he was releasing records, among them Hard Melody and Follow Me on Subway Records and a run of EPs on One Thousands, before the stripped, loop-based techno on Design Music and Zenit.

He founded several labels of his own: Design, Zenit, Question, One Thousands, Do.Mi.No. and Music On. His records also appeared on Minus, Plus 8, 2M and Primate Recordings. His albums include Fokus and Open System on Zenit, Question 10, and Play It Loud! on Minus in 2011, the one on Richie Hawtin's label.

Music On was launched in 2011 at the Shelbourne Hotel in Miami, the same year Luca Piccolo became his manager and booker. It grew into a touring event and record label under Carola's direction. He held the Music On residency at Amnesia in Ibiza from 2012 until 2018, after two years of residency there with Cocoon.

Carola has also made DJ mix compilations, including Fabric 31 in 2006, a Time Warp compilation in 2009 and Party Animals with Nick Curly in 2010. His sets run long. In 2015 he played for 24 hours without a break, layering percussion and grooves across several decks so that one track slides into the next.