Leo Mars launched his djing career in the year of ’87 when he started Radio Studio 22, which was a pirate station, mostly focused on rock music.
His first time as a club dj was in 1994, in the island of Mykonos (Aigli bar-Cavo Paradiso’s dj afternoon meetings). Since then, he has played in various club-bars in Athens (Plus Soda-One Happy Cloud-Loop-City Groove-Zoo -Bar Guru-Stavlos to name but a few), and also in other cities around Athens-Crete and Cyprus.
Since then, he has played in various club-bars in Athens (Plus Soda-One Happy Cloud-Loop-City Groove-Zoo -Bar Guru-Stavlos to name but a few), and also in other cities around Athens-Crete and Cyprus.
Some of the names that influenced Leo Mars in his musical style are: Glenn Underground-Mr.Fingers-Francois K-Danny Tenaglia.
An important turn in his career were his visits to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, which turned gold into forming his unique musical style and preferences, bringing back with him to Greece the West Coast House sound.
The connections that he made there with WAX records, owned by Doc Martin, and other people from the house music industry like Nikos from Under My Skin records/Tony Watson/Peter Black/ gave him a wider view of what is available in the scene, and a glimpse of what Leo believes to be the future of house music.
Leo has graduated from a certified sound engineering college in Athens (1995-1997 AVR Pro), which gives him a technical knowledge of how electronic music should sound.
People say that Energy Dance Festival (Sept 2001) and the warm up set in Deep Dish’s show (Moscow tour) at Plus Soda (Dec 2001) are the gigs that put Leo in to another level of the Athenian dj scene.
He is represented by Large promotions, you can find Leo’s bio & music samples @
www.largepromos.com.
Leo’s ‘’Supernatural love’’ with his friend Kevin Sunray has been released on cd compilation at Planetwork’s Local underground label.
This track was just released in vinyl by Blockhead recordings in San Diego (Nov 2004).
Leo under the name of Deepend alongside Nikolas and dj Nik deSix produced a track named “Night break”. This track will be included in January’s 2005 release of double cd compilation produced by dj Pascal named Mediterranean Vibe. The compilation includes all the top Hellenic artists & acts and Leo Mars shines like gold amongst them.
