Antwerp, Belgium
Massimo Conecto (Belgium 1966) born as Dirk Stommels, dj since 1999, described as an ambitious, inexhaustible, passionate music lover in several styles.
Dirk’s grandfather - who had the honour of playing along the side of Toots Thielemans - was a jazz musician for 50 years and learned him on a very young age discovering the world of jazz… from there on he started to follow the mainstream in the world of music and his passion for music was born!
The first album he bought was Deep Purple in Rock. He grew up with jazz, rock, punk, disco, funk, hiphop, electronic & new wave, which all has an influence in his choice/style of music. Since the mid seventies, he’s been busy following the evolution of music, always searching for new or unknown sounds. At that time his good friend and dj Sven Van Hees hosted a radioshow together with Paul Ward called Liaisons Dangereuses. Every week they gave the best of what New Beat had to offer. A new style of underground dance music originated in Belgium a
