BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1962, Italian origins, mastering French, German and Italian. In the 80’s Maurocat has been among the firsts local Swiss radio presenters and musical programmers as well as house DJ in a number of Swiss clubs.
Maurocat’s main 3 lines of activities are: music production, video production and clubbing events promotion in the French part of Switzerland.
Music Art Director between 1999 and 2001 for the chill out zone of the MAD club in Lausanne. Maurocat’s music style encompasses downtempo, bossa, d ‘n’ b jazzy and minimalist electronic; highly skilled in the deep house Maurocat forged his experience back in the 90’s.
Maurocat is well known as DJ in several European lounge bars among which: Danzatoria (Barcelona), Mezzanine de l’Alcazar (Paris), Alhambar, TM-Cafés , Imagine (Switzerland)
The leading underground clubs of Zurich, the Labyrinth and the AERA, hire Maurocat as ambient DJ, at the time of their activities.
His production “End of Summer” is the first track of the album “Mezzanine de l’Alcazar Vol. III”. Maurocat has been the resident DJ of “Mezzanine de l’Alcazar” in Paris between 2000 and 2004.
On the broadcast side Maurocat was the chill out programmer of Radio Fribourg (Switzerland) till June 2008.
He has been also a regular guest of “ Radio FG - Paris ” for the program “Radiomentale” (presenter: Yves Leloup) and “Kwality Broadcast”
Regular guest of Michael Marquet in “Metissages” on “ Couleur 3 ” (Switzerland), Maurocat reveals us, by the sensitivity of its mix, all its musical eclecticism.
Maurocat was the promoter and Art Director of the events “VIRAGE” at “Halle Weetamix” the arts centre of the electronic music of Geneva. Until 2009 Maurocat also was the promoter and Art Director of the gay & gay friendly events of the MOA Club: “The Seasons Parties ”.
On February 2010 Maurocat reloads at the New Halle Weetamix with “ REUNION ” - undergroound parties for gay & their friends.