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After 18 years on the scene, house pioneer and DJ Danny Rampling is gracefully bowing out.
It's a pivotal morning in the history of dance music: confirming recent whispers, Danny Rampling has officially announced his retirement, closing with a final set confirmed for this New Year's Eve.
Danny Rampling pioneered a musical revolution in the late 80s. There were days when house was dismissed as a gay thing, a weird arty thing, a 'fad been and gone', where house DJs built cages around their booths to protect themselves from being bottled by the hiphop kids. In the summer of 1987 Danny discovered ecstasy, Ibiza, and a house movement, and brought them home to the UK complete with style, behaviour and slang dance in one very seductive package. A response to the exclusive rare groove and festering London scenes, Danny's Shoom nights in the late 80s paved the way for dance music culture as we know it, based not only around the dance but around community, love, peace and happy hippie things.
Danny's 18 years as a DJ will be closed by a 3CD compilation, to be released at the end of the summer on Defected, celebrating his Shoom, Pure Sexy and Balearic eras.
So what next for the superstar DJ? Danny's love for food and fine wines has brought him to restauranteuring, as his first restaurant opens in central London next year. Parallelled by the Balearic ethos that marked out Danny as a true player, the emphasis is on “having fun at a restaurant rather than a stuffy, silent environmentâ€
