L.A. Weekly
Joseph Capriati Prepares to Metamorfosi
Joseph Capriati Prepares to Metamorfosi: DJ and producer Joseph Capriati started DJing when he was just 11 years old. “I was walking around my home in Caserta, Italy, and I remember seeing American people having a party – at the time, in front of my house, there was a residency were the families of American soldiers sent to the Naples base of NATO were living,” he says. “It was Independence Day and I saw this figure of a guy mixing and I just clicked and knew I wanted to do the same! It wasn’t easy though, in that era there was no internet of course and it was also expensive to buy records, mixers and turntables. I started to work during summer, helping my uncle in his construction company, passing along to him his work instruments basically, and at the end of the summer he gave me something that today would be around $500. I was finally able to buy one turntable! My grandma gave me a second one, which didn’t even have pitch control, I was using my own fingers, you know? As per the mixer, a friend of a friend gave me a third hand one (which, for the records, I still have) and I then bought two records. I remember mixing these 2 records only for over 6 months! Well, from there I started.”