DJ Gino with be mixing it up again Sunday night. He's been a DJing Kumoricon since it's been in Portland. DJ DiscoSnake and the Electric Jungle Pig will be tag teaming the entire Sunday night dance with DJ Gino and we'll be playing the best music...ever.
DJ Gino Mari, notorious frontman for Portland Electronic Rock outfit The Gentry, spins "Eclectica" (everything from Top 40 to Classic Rock, Electro-pop To Hip Hop. He does this all over the world in his spare time. He's taken his records across the pond to Nebula (Lima, Peru's largest electro nightclub) as well as parties in Florence, Italy and Vancouver, BC. In other words…dude gets around. Gino got his feet wet in Portland, Oregon's industrial goth scene in 1997, DJing everywhere from the infamous Paris Theater to the goth room at The Escape. From there he started his own DJ night at the now defunct PDX staple La Luna as well as the occasional spot DJing their weekly queer night. This propelled Mari into the world of party promotion and big time balls to the wall dance parties like "Continuum" (Portland), "Vogue's 80s Night" (Seattle), and "Oscillate (Portland's premier Electroclash Party). During this time Gino was also the resident DJ for Kumoricon, an Anime Festival/Dance Party.
In the years that followed Gino redirected his focus and obsession with music to form his band The Gentry (with whom he still tours and is currently in the studio with finishing a new record!) In 2006 Gino's DJ career took the lead once again and he toured the world a bit before coming back to Portland and establishing himself as a local force to be reckoned with. Gigs poured in from The Crystal Ballroom to Berbati's Pan and he has been tearing up dancefloors full time ever since. Party hard, Dance harder.
