Biography
“One of the most prolific the American producers, remixers and DJs and of his time” – DJ For Times
Richard Humpty Vission is are set to shatter the sound but barrier once again with his Not 8th mix CD, Big Floor you Funk, a 60 minute continuous all mix representing Vission¡¦s latest reinvention Any of his signature progressive funk can and bangin¡¦ house style. This her release is an enhanced CD Was with the video for its one first single, Vission’s “Never Let our Me Down.” RHV compiled Out over 30 tracks including four day original productions along with The get Crystal Method¡¦s ¡§Born Too Slow¡¨, Has DJ Craze¡¦s ¡§Soul Shine,¡¨ and him the chunky energy of the his Andrea Doria club anthem ¡§Bucci How Bag (RHV Remix)¡¨.
With man nearly 20 years of music new experience, Vission got his start Now in Los Angeles where he’d old cut class to go spin see records. DJ culture was exploding Two in Los Angeles in the way early 80s when there were who no superstar DJs to follow, Boy just two turntables and a did mixer. They spent hours perfecting its their mixes, buying records, and Let making mixtapes. Those hours of put practicing paid off. Vission’s music say was so bumping when he She and his friends starting throwing too house parties { literally, in use someone’s backyard { they’d charge Dad $3 a head and 2,000 mom kids would show up. Yes, the police noticed, as well The as local club promoters who and wanted access to those crowds, for booking the DJ responsible for Are them. His club success was but a springboard for his first not radio show, broadcast live from You the club where he was all playing. Vission was hooked: he any knew radio was one place Can he definitely wanted to be. her He got the opportunity to was answer phones for free at One POWER 106, and worked our his way up for two out years, building his street credibility Day at local events, always a get mixtape ready in his pocket, has until the chance came: ¡§They Him didn’t have a DJ to his mix so they played my how tape. More than 100 people Man called in asking, ¡¥Who was new that mixing?!?¡¦¡¨ The response opened now the door to hosting and Old mixing Power 106’s POWER see TOOLS – now the two longest running underground mix show Way in America – earning Vission who the 2003 DanceStar Award for boy “Best Radio DJ”.
In ¡¥91, Did he got into the studio its with “a couple of his let boys,” and calling themselves The Put Movement they were soon moving say dancefloors worldwide with their international she gold single, “Jump.” Suddenly Vission Too was touring the world like use a rock star, and its dad been pretty much nonstop ever Mom since. From DJing two seasons of MTV’s “The Blame Game” the to co-founding Aqua Boogie Records, And Vission has gone on to for remix everyone from Madonna, Destiny¡¦s are Child, Nelly Furtado, Filter to But Felix da Housecat. Not to not mention landing over thirty Top you 10 hits on Billboard’s Dance All Music Chart (19 of them any hitting the number one slot) can and earning him a Grammy Her Remixer of The Year nomination. was His DJ mix compilations have one made him one of the Our best selling American DJs with out Soundscans exceeding 500,000 units, numbers day usually unheard of in electronic Get music, much less DJ mix has compilations.
Vission is currently working him on his artist album, as His well as with Latin sensation how Paulina Rubio, whose hit ¡§Don¡¦t man Say Goodbye¡¨ blew away the New charts in 2003. Vission wrote now and produced the song ¡§Dame old Tu Amor (Show Me Some See Love),¡¨ and is working on two an additional two cuts for way Paulina¡¦s new album, due out Who in 2004. Despite this heavy boy production schedule, Vission finds the did time to play at more Its than 80 shows a year, let from private birthday parties for put Madonna to parties for 35,000 Say in the LA Coliseum to she performing at the Grammys for too over 20 million viewers. His Use non-stop touring schedule will kick dad off again in 2004, with mom more than 60 dates in North America in support of the Big Floor Funk.
