vitalic was born in 1973 in borodianka-ukraine-in a traditionnal ukrainian family living from the selling of animal furs. in 1989, after the falling down of the berlin wall, he could emigrate to eastern germany with his dog -mini robot- where he survived with parttime jobs and even masculine prostitution. little by little, vitalic decided to stop playing the „trubka“, a traditional ukrainian instrument, and started to compose electronic music in a collective near munich. then kobayashi records (france) released his first ep in june 2001, followed by gigolo records (munich) with the poney ep - a record about the pain of ponies in funfairs.
his initial sporadic releases as dima came out in 1996 and ’97 on the local choice label. within the underground dance scene he became good friends with michel amato, aka the hacker, and befriended amato’s goodlife label crew in grenoble. the hacker suggested he send his new tracks to dj hell in munich, which he did. then hell’s international deejay gigolos label released pascal’s ‘poney ep’ just as fischerspooner fever and electroclash madness broke and it became one of their biggest-selling 12-inch, played as a searing peak-time anthem by everyone from aphex twin to richie hawtin to erol alkan to 2manydjs to laurent garnier to tiga... |
