FORWARD DISCO | Filsonik

Filsonik has a history deeply rooted in the iconic world of New York club music and evolved as a DJ / producer out of a rich NYC house community. Born and raised in the Lower East Side, he grew up on hip hop, latin disco, and reggae music.

He was schooled from age seven as a classical pianist and as such his influences are both street and formal. His childhood neighbors were John Mateo and Eddie Matos, producers on one of the UK's foremost deep house labels Glasgow Underground and Joe Claussell's Spiritual Life Music. His first experience of house music was with them in the early 90's when they asked him to play sessions keys on one of their early tracks.

His career as a producer and DJ took off in 2006 under the umbrella of New York's veteran house DJ, Timmy Regisford of Club Shelter, a legendary weekly soulful / deep house event that ran for fifteen years. Filsonik's signature drum programming sound which is quintessentially Latin, rhythmic but yet low-fi appears on many Regisford tracks of that period. Co- productions on Shelter's label Unrestricted Tracks and Restricted Tracks with Regisford including "Can U" (Unrestricted Access Records), "Basic Track" (Restricted Access Records) and "Movement" (Restricted Tracks Records) set the bar for gritty, underground New York deep house of the mid 2000's.

His remix of Alicia Key's "POW" (Restricted Access Records) crystalized the sound of New York vocal house circa the mid noughties. He also saw the fruits of his labor appear on Osunlade's Yoruba Records with Nadirah Shakoor "Love Song Part One" (Bahsonik Remix) (Yoruba Records) which was a collaborative effort with the English jazzy house producer Bah Samba.

In 2009 Argy signed the track "Diva Jaguar" for his Berlin based label These Days label and re-released the by now NYC deep house classic "Can U" as a special Argy edit. Shortly thereafter, Argy picked up a second release from Filsonik which landed on his "These Beats" compilation featuring original productions by the likes of Radio Slave and Jerome Sydenham.

2014 has been a big year for Filsonik with releases on Jamie Jones' Hot Creations Label with "Dogfish" as well as the summer Ibiza anthem Larosa "Something Strange" (Filsonik Remix) (Not Bad). He has tracks slated for release on both Tuskegee and Cuttin' Headz.

Filsonik continues to build the catalogue of his own label Gran Manzana with his close friend Patrick Grooves. He plays frequently alone and with The Martinez Brothers at venues and events such as BPM Festival (Mexico), Space, Miami (USA), Output, New York (USA), ReSolute, New York (USA), Spy Bar (Chicago), Stereo, Montreal (Canada), Showcase (Paris), The Arches (Glasgow), Circo Loco (Ibiza).