Marco Peruzzi
Marco Peruzzi
Nearly four decades behind the decks, from a rock club in the South of France to music director of LA's best house room. And, crucially, the man who knows where to find the city's best cappuccino.
Marco, thank you for helping me find the best cappuccino spots in L.A. I would never have stayed in L.A. that long had it not been for you.
Some friendships are built on dance floors, ours was built on espresso machines. Hunting down the best cappuccino in Los Angeles with Marco is its own kind of education: the same ear that can read a room at four in the morning turns out to be ruthless about milk texture at ten in the morning. Taste is taste. It does not clock out.
Marco has been playing records since 1987, longer than some of the DJs he now shares lineups with have been alive. Marseille rave, jazz cellars, the golden New York bottle-service years, and now Los Angeles, where he runs the music at Members. This is one of our early conversations, revisited, with his story brought up to the present. He is still doing exactly what he told me he planned to do back then: traveling the world and sharing great music with great people.
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Marco Peruzzi began his career in music back in 1987 at Duck Café, a legendary rock club in the South of France. He became a resident at Marseille's Factory Club, mixing Detroit techno, house, and rock, and started a rave collaboration with DJ Jack de Marseille and DJ Sonic that helped wire the city into France's emerging electronic scene.
Then came the residency that changed his ears. In 1992 he began four years as resident and music director at Le Perroquet Bleu in Marseille, where jazz, soul, disco, and funk got deep into his blood. You can still hear that room in everything he plays: house music with vocals, warmth, and swing, made for people who club to dance.
From 1997 to 2000 he took residencies across England, Italy, and Switzerland, then crossed the pond to New York in 2004, straight into the hottest rooms the city had: Pink Elephant, where he was also music director, Kiss & Fly, Cain, Crobar, Cielo, Provocateur, Hakkasan.
In 2017 he moved to Los Angeles, holding weekly residencies at Raspoutine and Soho House before taking up his current post as resident DJ and music director of Members, the best house music venue in LA. These days you will also find him in clubs across Mexico, Brazil, France, Turkey, Greece, the UK, and the Dominican Republic, sharing bills with the likes of Lee Burridge, Sebastien Leger, Sabo, Roy Rosenfeld, MoBlack, Amine K, Musumeci, Safar, Marques Wyatt, Laurent Garnier, Blondish, Roger Sanchez, Tiesto, David Morales, Pete Tong, David Guetta, and Bob Sinclar. When he is not behind the decks, he curates music for restaurants and stores.
"Continue traveling all over the world and share great music with great people."Marco Peruzzi · his plans, then and now
Other DJs you admire?
Some of your favorite tracks?
A tough question...
- Esther Phillips · Home Is Where the Hatred Is
- DJ Rasoul · Let Me Love You
- Choice · Acid Eiffel
- Marco Di Marco & Chris Woods · Genevra Theme
- James Brown · The Payback
- Massive Attack · Be Thankful for What You've Got
- Piero Umiliani · To Seek
- Solu Music ft. KimBlee · Fade (Original Mix)
- Terry Callier · Love Theme from Spartacus (Zero 7 Remix)
...and a hundred thousand more.
Favorite venues?
Pink Elephant, for the natural energy of the room. And:
Plans for the year ahead?
Continue traveling all over the world and share great music with great people.
Listen: live at Members, Los Angeles
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