From Mykonos / Halkidiki, Greece
Labels Lump Records, Wunderlust Musica, Fasten Musique, BodyParts Records
DJ, Live Performance
DEST
From Mykonos / Thessaloniki, Greece
Labels Lump Records, Wunderlust Musica, Fasten Musique, BodyParts Records
DJ, Live Performance
CONNECT
Dest, the resident DJ and the music director of Alemagou Mykonos
Dj Dest is known for his passion for spinning selective deep-tech house tunes and also mixing trip-hop, reggae, dub, funk, afro and world music, from downtempo to uptempo.
Dest also has a live project named “ MARSYAS”. In which he performs together with musicians playing ancient world instruments. With Dest on the decks, live sampling and sequencing together they deliver an epic experimental ambient electronic musical journey
Dest, the resident DJ and the music director of Alemagou Mykonos
Dj Dest is known for his passion for spinning selective deep-tech house tunes and also mixing trip-hop, reggae, dub, funk, afro and world music, from downtempo to uptempo.
Dest also has a live project named “ MARSYAS”. In which he performs together with musicians playing ancient world instruments. With Dest on the decks, live sampling and sequencing together they deliver an epic experimental ambient electronic musical journey
LIVE SETS
TOUR DATES
no event
APPEREANCES WITH OTHER DJ'S
Dest’s performances with some of the well-known International Dj’s
Acid Pauli, Adriatique, Armin Van Buuren, BeeGee, Bedouin, Crussen, Dandara, Carlita, Damian Lazarus, Davi, DJ Saint, Edu Impernon, Estray, Extrawelt, Filsonic, Francesca Lombardo, Gerd Janson, Guy Gerber, Holder, Jota Karloza, Kaskade, Kevin Yost, Khaikhan, Lemurian, Love Over Entropy, Maga, Majnoon, Matthias Heilbronn, Nicola Cruz, Nico Stojan, PanPot, Rafaele Castiglione, SAAB, Sidney Charles, Sven Vath, Tale of Us, Timboleti, The Mechanism, Thomaz (Soul Brothers), Thommie G, Valeron
Dest’s performances with some of the local DJ’s
Kreon, Mr Static, Nikos Diamantopoulos, DJ Booker, Cayetano, Kostas Georgoudis, Duke
THE MUSIC
Dive deep into a new musical horizon; Marsyas is the visualization of Dest’s interpretation of electronic live music, mixing electronic beats with organic percussion sounds, adding synth textures on top and overdubbing them with the melodies of ancient world instruments. When both worlds combined the performance takes the audience to a mysterious musical journey, The spiritual ritualistic therapeutic sounds eventually evolves into upbeat electronic music that moves the crowd to higher spirits
The project aims to share a carefully curated musical experience in order to explore and reach diversified states of consciousness and create a collective connection with the collaboration of the audience.
THE STORY
The project is named after the Greek God: Marsyas, who was both a god and a human in the Greek Myth, he was a daytime Satyr as well. Marsyas’s passion for music was beyond everything which even costed his own life.
Dest’s Marsyas project is all about this passion for music, its impact, its magnificent power and its reflection to our daily life. Marsyas is a unique collaboration of Dj Dest and the dexterous musicians of Reggetiko Project.
DEST'S BIOGRAPHY
He was always interested in many aspects of music such as learning musical instruments (guitar, keyboards, drums) and getting influenced by different styles of music in general.
In 2000 he started to play as a dj at the main beach bars and clubs of his homeland and from 2004-2006 he study Music technology and Sound engineering in Thessaloniki. The following years he spun in many club/bars of that city as Daily bar, Stoa bar, Mylos club, Decadence club, Rocknrolla bar, Block 33, Zenith club.
After finishing his studies, in the summer of 2006, he moved to Mykonos island where he became a resident dj at Bolero bar, Paradise lounge beach bar, Ikaros bar and appeared as guest dj in Aroma bar, 13teen bar, Space club, Radio Paraga beach bar, Queen bar, Pierro’s bar/club, Cavo Paradiso club, etc. For two years (2011-2012), with the idea of keeping alive the underground electronic music scene in Mykonos town, he opened and managed Jazmin bar. In summer of 2012, he was resident at Alemagou beach bar, Paradise Lounge, among many others.
From 2011-2019 (ongoing) he has been resident DJ at Alemagou Mykonos, Cavo Paradiso Club and Cooh Club Mykonos, also seasonal resident DJ at Circus Club, Vineyard Bar and Aviary Rooftop Bar (Melbourne AU), during Australian summer. Along, all those years of DJ’ing he also had many appearances in London, Casablanca, Bulgaria, Tokyo, etc. In addition, he has played around different parts of Greece.
By 2011 Dest opened his own bar “Jazmin” in Mykonos with the idea of keeping alive the underground electronic music scene in town and by 2012 he joined forces together with Alemagou and since then became the resident Dj and the music director of the venue.
As a music director, leading and contributing for the music at Alemagou has been one of his remarkable career successes. As Alemagou became one of the islands top venues it also contributed a lot in shaping todays music influence on the island. Alemagou means more than a venue, it resembles a beautiful culture, a life-style. In Mykonos scene, Dest is highly acclaimed and respected for his artistic works at Alemagou.
