DJ Dado   (Italy)

AKA : Flavio Daddato
EuroDance group
Added : 28/01/2001
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Latest DJ Dado news

16/07/2022 : New from DJ Dado, single My Love featuring British singer B'Wani. It was included on his brand new best-of The Best Of DJ Dado - New Collection 2022

13/11/2021 : DJ Dado and simone Jay teamed to record a new single entitled Flying Higher

29/06/2014 : After 10 years of silence, DJ Dado teamed up with Elettro Latino and Steph B to record a new song entitled No More Rain.

06/05/2002 : DJ Dado released a single vs Nina (NOT Nina Gerhart), entitled One & Only (thanks to Denis DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin).

18/04/2002 : DJ Dado released a 2002 version of his hit X-Files Theme

14/05/2001 : DJ Dado released today his new single You & Me. It features J. White.

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DJ Dado albums

	The Films Collection	1995	BUY X
	The Album	2nd Jul 1996	BUY X
	Greatest Hits & Future Bits	25th Aug 1998	BUY X
	Greatest Themes '99 (Unofficial)	1999	BUY X
	DJ Dado	3rd Mar 2020	BUY X
	The Best Of DJ Dado - New Collection 2022	1st Jul 2022	BUY X

DJ Dado singles

	Peace & Unity (with 2 System)	1993	BUY X
	Check It Up (with Nando Vannelli)	1994	BUY X
	The Same	15th Apr 1994	BUY X
	Face It	6th Nov 1995	BUY X
	Dreaming	1996	BUY X
	The X-files	25th Mar 1996	BUY X
	Metropolis	11th Jun 1996	BUY X
	Mission Impossible	9th Oct 1996	BUY X
	Revenge	30th Dec 1996	BUY X
	Shine On You Crazy Diamond (feat. DD Pink)	15th Jan 1997	BUY X
	Coming Back (feat. Michelle Weeks)	7th Jul 1997	BUY X
	Give Me Love (feat. Michelle Weeks)	22nd Jun 1998	BUY X
	Ready Or Not (feat. Simone Jay)	9th Jan 1999	BUY X
	Forever	3rd May 1999	BUY X
	Where Are You (featuring Nu-B-Ja)	18th Sep 2000	BUY X
	You And Me (feat J. White)	14th May 2001	BUY X
	X-Files Theme 2002	22nd Apr 2002	BUY X
	Theme From The Warriors (feat. Dr Feelx)	5th Mar 2004	BUY X
	No More Rain (with Elettro Latino & Steph B)	2014	BUY X
	Flying Higher	19th Nov 2021	BUY X
	My Love (feat. B'Wani)	27th Jun 2022	BUY X

DJ Dado remixes

	The X-files	1996	BUY X
	Give Me Love	1998	BUY X
	Give Me Love (Remix II)	1998	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

Dirty Minds - Millenium

1st Dec 1997

BUY X

Productions, co-production, executive production

	Dirty Mind - Millenium (Dj Dado Remix)	6th Nov 1997	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Good Times	15th Jul 1999	BUY X

Arrangement, recording, engineer

Simone Jay - Good Times

15th Jul 1999

BUY X

Compositions

DJ Dado - You And Me

14th May 2001

BUY X

Songwriting

DJ Dado - You And Me

14th May 2001

BUY X

Remixes by DJ Dado

Nina (2) - One & Only

21st Jul 1999

BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Flavio Dado & 2 System - This Generation	1993	BUY X
	Flavio Dado - Rhythm Of Pleasure	1993	BUY X
	Flavio Dado - DJ Experiment	1995	BUY X

DJ Dado biography

DJ Dado (Flavio D'Addato) was born on January 6th 1967 in Milan. His passion for music started when he was only a child. As a teenager, he started hanging out in discos of his home city, meeting Roberto Turatti who taught him how to mix. He then became his assistant and sometimes replaced him. In 1988, his dad encouraged him to take over the management of the records shop DJ Choice, located viale Monza 233 in Milan. The following year, he bought the shop. Beginning of 90s, he met Roberto Gallo Salsotto. He'd been looking for a partner to publish his composition for a while. Under the alias Flavio Dado he released the eurodance songs Rhythm Of Pleasure and This Generation under the label Out.

His first single as DJ Dado was entitled Peace & Unity and it was once again a eurodance collaboration with 2 System aka Francesco Becchetti. Then came The Same and Check It Up in 1994 and Face It in 1995. He changed his musical style to dream dance with the follow-up single Dreaming, featuring uncredited vocalst by Susanna Dubaz. But his major breakthrough was his dream dance version, still in collaboration with Roberto Gallo Salsotto, of Mark Snow's X-Files theme song. The single was a top 10 hit around the globe (#1 in Israel, #1 in Italy and #8 in the UK, #16 at MTV Europe), with more than 2 000 000 copies sold. The follow up single (and cover of the theme that Giorgio Moroder wrote for the 1984 version of the Fritz Lang movie) Metropolis (The Legend Of Babel) also reached the top 10 position at international level. After such encouraging results, the album was released consolidating his image as an internationally recognised artist. By the end of 1996 Dado signed at Time records. His first single released under this new label was Revenge. This track remained in the Italian top 10 for about 2 months. Then came the Pink Floyd cover Shine On You Crazy Diamond with DD Pink.

Spring 1997 marked a turning point for DJ Dado : the new single called Coming Back was about to be released. For the first time it was a full vocal track with a pop flavour and a splendid vocal interpretation from Michelle Weeks. The track was recorded in New York and produced in his own recording studios in Italy. Finally DJ Fargetta from radio Dee Jay was commissioned to remix the track, adding to the versions already produced by the duo Dado/Salsotto.

January 1998 : following Millenium, a new single featuring Michelle Weeks intitled Give Me Love was released. It also contained some versions club and dub produced by famous remixer as Full Intention and Kamasutra. In November 1998, DJ Dado's team decides to join an artist of international fame such as Simone Jay in order to create a new project to be launched in October in Italy. The track entitled Ready or Not was presented with great ambitions to the Italian dance music lovers. Steve Silk and Jaydee contributed to the remixes. Since the middle of March the single was one of the most played and danced in the German and Londonian clubs, and has been reviewed in many magazines. In March DJ Dado team left to New York to record Forever, once again performed by Michelle Weeks. Already on airplay on the major radionetwork from the 15th of April, it was released at the beginning of May, including several remixed versions. The second album Greatest Hits & Future Bits was released in 1998 and that contained both old hits and new tracks.

DJ Dado has also done his own versions of Mission Impossible and Twin Peaks themes and remixed many artists such as Alexia, Imperio, Molella, Bibi Schön, Datura, Vasco Rossi, Boy George (When Will You Learn) and Jean-Michel Jarre.

1999 : he began collaborating with Molella for the Megamix column on Radio DeeJay, a collaboration that continued until 2003.

2001 : DJ Dado released his new single You & Me featuring J. White on May 14th.

2002 : DJ Dado released a 2002 version of his hit X-Files Theme. The same year, he released a single vs Nina Badrić, entitled One & Only.

2004 : DJ Dado released a new single entitled Theme From The Warriors. It featured Dr Feel X.

2014 : after 10 years of silence, DJ Dado teamed up with Elettro Latino and Steph B to record a new song : No More Rain

2021 : DJ Dado and Simone Jay joined forces once again to record a new single entitled Flying Higher.

2022 : his new single My Love featured British singer B'Wani.

Time Records
Thanks to Florent "v_uba" and Carver
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions

DJ Dado biography was last updated Thu, July 4th 2024

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