Dj Vitamin (real name Andrew Vilks)
was born in Riga (Latvia) in 1980.

He became interested in electronic music since visiting UK (London) in 1995. He started collecting vinyl records and made contact with local vinyl dj`s in Latvia, also he was trying to make his own music on computer (FastTracker).

Later he choose nickname "Dj Vitamin" as a protest to drugs and "death on the dance floor" syndrome. Also he started to experimenting with own techno tracks on Yamaha sequenser (QY70).

During 1997 and 1999 Dj Vitamin played on many underground Latvian Techno events. He also playing his own tracks during dj sets, and gets very good feedback from public. Mainly because of this, his style becoming more dance floor oriented and more public friendly.

In 1999 his own tracks appeared on Janis Krauklis (one of the Latvian oldest dj) radio program, and in Top10 Latvian Electronic music radio chart. Since then he became interested in music hardware: synthesizers, samplers, mixers and started to build his own studio.

In 2000 Dj Vitamin becomes a co-founder of X-Promo Promotion label, and started to work as a promoter in cooperation with big Latvian night clubs such as: "Nautilus", "Tonuss", "Banzai".

Later, with series of such parties as: "Underwater Attack" and "Dj`s at Work" X-Promo became major club promotion label in Latvia, and introduced techno music to commercial club dancefloors, which were mainly house oriented.

Dj Vitamin started to implement house tracks in his techno sets because public in nightclubs differs from public on underground techno events. But still techno and tech-house music was a foundation of his dj sets. He trying to push live sets to the limits by mixing vinyl with short loops from sampler and several synthesizers.

As a producer he became interested in house and disco-house music. He changed sequencer and old several synthesizers for a yamaha RS7000 workstation with sampler and started to write disco house and house music. As a result - such tracks as "Substitute", "Love" and "Summertime Groove" were hitting dance floors and radio stations in Russia, and Europe. His latest techno tracks heavily based on analog synthesizer sound, and usually Dj Vitamin performs them live on techno parties.

From 2006 - Dj Vitamin heavily working in studio, mainly writing his own tracks and trying some new music hardware gear. Together with other X-Promo co-founder Dj Drozd he played on biggest Latvian Electronic Music events in 2006: 4Block, Therapy Sessions, Electronic Music Sunrise, Music Revolution.

In 2006 Dj Vitamin partially playing his sets from Apple Macintosh computer, Hardware Controller and Ableton Live - because of flexibility of live perfomances with this technology. But usually on gigs his dj box still full of vinyl records, and he hopes that vinyl records will be still actual in future.

2007-2008 Dj Vitamin takes part in Latvian biggest underground events such as Summer House, SISI Festival, Global Rave with energetic mix of techno / electro house and his own material. Also his old disco-house sets became popular on smaller club events.

Key Events:

"SISI Electronic Music Festival" (Madona)
"Therapy Session" (Riga, Factory)
"Global Rave" (Daugavpils)
"Electronic Music Sunrise" (Riga, SportHall)
"4 BLOCK" (Riga, Rigas Kinostudija)
"Sun Dance Music Festival 2004" (Tallin)
"Summer House Festival Series" (Kaunatas TN)
"Music Revolution event series" (LV)
"X-Promo and Friends event series" (LV)
"Fort Sunrise" (Daugavpils / Fortress)
"Cryptic Sense / Deep Vision event series
"Understanding Disinformation 4" (Madona)
"Dance 2 Trance" (Riga, Factory)
"Night Of The Big Drums" (Riga, Factory)
"Case of Noise event series"
"X-Promo Style" (LV)
"Love Park" (Jelgava, open air/ Tonuss club)
"Rave Party In Boiler House" (Riga, Factory)
"NRG" (Riga, DKZ)
"X-Promo vs Viator series" (Banzai, Daugavpils)
"ShowDown event series" (Banzai, Daugavpils)

Years and Styles:

1996 - Detroit Techno, Techno
1997 - Detroit Techno, Techno
1998 - Detroit Techno, Techno, House
1999 - Techno, House, Disco-House
2000 - House, Disco-House, Tech-House
2001 - Disco-House, Tech-House, Techno
2002 - Disco-House, Tech-House, Techno
2003 - Tech-House, Disco-House
2004 - Tech-House, Techno
2005 - Electro-House, Tech-House
2006 - Electro-House, Tech-House, Techno
2007 - Techno, Electro-House, Tech-House, Minimal
2008 - Techno, Electro-House, Tech-House, Minimal, Disco-House
2009 - Techno, Electro-House, Tech-House, Disco-House
2010 - Tech-House, House, Techno, Disco-House