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FRED JORIO BIOGRAPHY
JORIO is Fred Jorio (aka Lectroluv), one of the most dynamic Dance-Music creators of the new millennium. Based in New York, Fred Jorio's Remixes featuring his Progressive sound have helped present artists including Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Sheryl Crow, KD Lang, David Bowie, Deborah Cox, Elton John, Madonna and Bjork to the Dance-Music community. As a DJ, Jorio has brought his trademark grooves to club audiences across the US, Europe and Asia.
Jorio is also well-known as the creator of the Club classic "Dream Drums" by Lectroluv (Eightball), and as a frequent collaborator of Junior Vasquez.
Over the recent years, Fred has collaborated with singers including Billy Rae Martin, Joi Cardwell, Jocelyn Enriques, Suzanne Palmer,Kumi Koda, Alvaugn Jackson, Stephanie McKay, Don Phillips, Kevin Aviance, Thea Austin, Sandy B and New York Metropolitan Opera diva Danielle DeNiese. While continuing to create standout remixes under his own name including Club Smash "Steve McQueen" by Sheryl Crow (interscope) and the song 'Now We Are Free' by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard for the Gladiator orginal soundtrack album. and collaborating with global
superstar Junior Vasquez on a series of remixes every year, Jorio has also been hard at work on hid own songwiting and productions. This follows the successin 2001 of JORIO's major-label release the Opera meets Dance epic, "CyberDiva" which includedc US and UK top 10 Club smash "Remenber Me."
Fred Jorio started his music careeer, playing in seminal New York bands - moving onto forming the Pop group Blu Max, following which, Jorio built the lengendary Lectroluv Studios and began his
ascentas a recognized and influential dance-Music innovator.
It was in 1991 that Jorio built the Lectrouv studio in his East Village NYC apartments and began cutting tracks. As Sextravaganza, Jorio helped perfect the heavily percussive tribal house sound that gave Tribal Records its name.Sextravaganza's Tribal Sextrax sold over 50,000 copies. Jorio moved into the acid-jazz genre on releases for the nascent Eight Ball label. For Eightball Records He created the moniker Lectroluv putting out several house ep's and singles. These are just some of the aliases (others included Jungoluv, Eternity) each of whch developed its own consituency of fans.
"It was great," Jorio says of working under different identities for respected underground, labels. There was no bullshit. You'd give your record to the DJs and if they liked it they'd play it and if they didn't, it wouldn't sell. I remember when I did my first records for Eight Ball, I would turn on
the Tony Humphries show," he says, citing the globally respected house music radio DJ. "He'd be playing my record, and I would be jumping for joy." [Jorio allows that his band experiences held him in good stead for the studio career.] "If you can write songs, I think you always have a chance," he says. "So when I started doing dance music, I would take songs that I wrote and then I would just customize them for the dance floor. I would get a nice female singer with a soulful voice and then I would change the arrangement around and it would work out. "
Jorio's profile increased significantly when Junior Vasquez, the ruling DJ on the New York house scene, fell in love with the 1993 track 'Dream Drums' - produced by jorio under his Lectroluv alias.
Vasquez and Jorio unbdertook to create a new, remixed version of the soon-to-be-classic club hit "Dream Drums"
The pair have continued to collaborate on remixes ever since. "I love working with Junior," says Jorio. "He's like an A&R person who really understands the underground, so he's willing to take chances."
This eagerness to experiment led, in '95, to Jorio co-producing (with Kiran Akal) a track called 'Rex' under the name ATMA that had both samples and freshly recorded vocals from Mozart's Requiem. The cut was never released commercially but was a big hit on the New York club scene as a white label, attracting the attention of Universal Records A&R executive Eric Calvi. Calvi and Jorio were inspired to pursue their vision of a dance opera. Through Calvi's contacts, they found 20-year old Danielle de Niese, a singer of Sri Lankan descent, who had just come to New York from to sing with the Metropolitan Opera.
"I wanted to do something more Ibiza-sounding." Using his own enviable array of new and vintage synthesizer, Jorio produced epic arrangements - along with tribal and progressive grooves. CyberDiva went on to gather critical acclaim and seduced consumers across the globe.
Jorio is still heavily involved with midi programming /remixing working on Casey Stratton's 2005 billboard #1 single "House of Jupiter",Rupaul's latest single "Work Out",Andrew Lloyd Webber's"Phantom of the Opera".
Jorio produced "LuvDrug"a song on Suzanne Palmer's upcoming album on Star69.He also produced the Twisted records release of "Mind Control" by Joi and Jorio and a remake of the classic "Club Lonely"(ageHa records).Shine the production team of Fred Jorio and Jackie Christie cowrote and produced the song "Tell Me What's Going On" for the upcoming film "Beauty Shop" starring Queen Lateefa,and Lectroluv vs. Jackie Chrisie "ISO"(ageHa).
In addition Jorio also cowrote and programmed the Rain Song and cowrote and coproduced Heart Won't Say Goodbye by Don Phillips with Liza on Liza Productions.
Jorio is also developing some great new material for his songwriting projects: future soul act Theatre of the Minds ,folkrock group Town Criers and a great new vocalist Ashlee Moore. Check out all the acts on Lectroluv.com.