Super DJ Dmitri
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Dmitri Brill (Cyrillic: Дмитрий Брил (Dmitriy Bril) born June 4, 1964 from Kiev, Ukraine) is a DJ and a former band member of Deee-Lite.
[edit] Career
Super DJ Dmitri (sometimes spelled Dmitry) was an underground house DJ before he met Lady Miss Kier through a friend in 1986. A year later Jungle DJ Towa Tei joined the two of them and formed the group Deee-Lite.
Known for his funky outfits and various ponytail styles in the beginning, Dmitri DJed, co-wrote, and co-produced for Deee-Lite, including the smash mainstream hit "Groove Is In the Heart" from the World Clique album. He also did the same for the subsequent Deee-Lite albums. Deee-Lite disbanded in 1996.
In 1991, he performed a Russian rap on the song "Rap the World" from Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto's album Heartbeat (to which Towa Tei also contributed).
Super DJ Dmitri also has strived to move away from the house music reminiscent of Deee-Lite and into a darker sound. DJ Supa Dmitri has DJed at many house clubs. He also collaborated with DJ Silver and Julee Cruise for the song "Artificial World" featured in the motion picture Scream. He released his self-titled album Screams of Consciousness in 2000.
[edit] Personal life
Born in the Ukraine to a classical pianist, Brill was immersed in music from an early age, but mainly classical due to Soviet restrictions on music. His mother even enrolled him at age nine in an experimental music program at a college where she worked. His family moved to New York around Halloween in 1979 with refugee status. In 1981, he began to frequent many dance clubs and was to exposed to other forms of music that would later shape his own DJing and music career. He was in a romantic relationship with Lady Miss Kier while in Deee-Lite, but the two split up in 1993, a major contributor to the band's dissolution. Brill currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
