Louie DeVito

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Few DJs wake up each morning with the nagging dilemma of ‘Will I lose the Golden Ear’? Welcome to DJ Louie DeVito’s early morning crisis. While most euro clubbers are fans of Oakenfold, Tiesto and Erik Morillo (the other mega DJs) — Louie DeVito has become a superstar among an entirely different audiences around the globe. His N.Y.C. Underground Party, released on his own independent Elastik label, sold 450,000 copies. That may pale in comparison to CD sales of pop stars like Kelly Clarkson who sell in the millions, but it was enough to land Louie DeVito in the Guinness record books for all-time best-selling DJ mix compilation. Paul Oakenfold (listed in Guinness as the most successful DJ of all time) sold a mere 222,000 copies of his best-selling album to date, Tranceport (Kinetic). “I called it 'New York City Underground Party,'" explains DeVito, "but I’m the first to admit that for the hard clubber, there's nothing underground about it. You have to define who you're asking. For your average mainstream dance fan, it’s very underground." In spite of all the success, or perhaps because of it, there is one thing DeVito claims has eluded him in his music career – respect. He’s aware that many of his DJ peers consider him a sell out. DeVito inverted the hallowed DJ success paradigm, the one that clearly states that a DJ shall only release a CD (and then to generally modest success) after years of begging gigs at tiny clubs and working to headline at larger ones. DeVito wa

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albums

NYC Underground Party, Volume 7

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Dance Factory

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Louie DeVito's Dance Factory, Level 4

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NYC Underground Party, Vol. 4

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NYC Underground Party

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N.Y.C. Underground Party Volume 6

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Let's Go

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NYC Underground Party, Vol. 3

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Trance Sessions II

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Ultra Dance 04.1

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N.Y.C Underground Party - Volume 4

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NYC Underground Party Vol. 4

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