DJ Slow
| Slow | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Vellu Maurola |
| Also known as | DJ Slow |
| Born | 1975 (age 41–42) Vantaa, Finland |
| Genres | Nu jazz, hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | DJ, record producer |
| Years active | since 1992 |
| Labels | Plastinka, Columbia |
| Website | Slow.fi |
Slow or DJ Slow (born Vellu Maurola, 1975, in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish DJ and music producer. His first encounters with hip hop acts such as Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Eric B & Rakim led him to pursue career in DJing, later making music and remixing others tracks. Slow is known for his nu-jazz style and for his production of commercial music for high-profile projects for advertising, TV, and cinema.
In the year 1990 Slow met JA-Jazz who was also a DJ and worked at the same department store's music department, where Slow worked. With money accrued from his evening job, Slow bought a pair of Technics turntables and good bunch of records.
He participated in the Finnish DMC Mixing Championships and won the contest four years in a row: in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. Winning performances were based on strong scratching skills, beatmatching and a little bit of acrobatics. Equipment used was two Technics SL-1200 direct-drive turntables and a DJ mixer and musical styles ranged from hip hop to funk and jazz.
Slow's friendship with JA-jazz continued and in 1995 Ja-Jazz introduced him to James Spectrum and together they formed a band called Pepe Deluxé. Their style could be described as a mixture of big beat, trip hop, and hip hop. Band's first outing was an 1998 EP titled Three Times a Player, which was chosen as Record of the month on Muzik magazine. Pepe Deluxé's first full-length album, Super Sound was released 1999 by UK's Catskills Records. Due to clearance problems (the tracks were heavily sampled), they had to do a new version of the album with many of the tracks re-created with cleared samples or with live instruments. New version of the album was released subsequently in France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, the U.S., Australia, and Germany.
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