Born in Flint, Michigan, Vincent Brick aka Vinny Bricks grew up the son of a performing Blues/Rock guitarist, and was heavily influenced by early exposure to a diverse mix of rock, blues and soul. At age nine he began learning to play guitar, and in the following years spread out to bass guitar, percussion and keyboards, jamming with friends at every opportunity. By the age of 15 Vinny was playing his first paying gigs with local rock bands in the Youngstown, Ohio area.
 

ESProductions house party - august 2002
 Vinny discovered the rave scene in 1994, and was immediately mesmerized and intrigued by the art of turntablism and live dance music. Moving to Phoenix, Arizona in 1996 to go to school for Audio Engineering, Vinny began working with old friend and former bandmate Ken Petrosky (aka DJ Cluster Poindexter) and his company, Kids Under The Carpet booking and promoting parties inside the Arizona dance music scene. Inspiration struck with the thrift store find of a twenty-year-old Moog synthesizer, in a few short months Vincent acquired enough equipment to start laying down original techno, and in the summer of 1998 he played his first live p.a. alongside a cast of well-known national acts at a sizable rave in Phoenix. Around this time, he also completed the Master Recording Program at the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Tempe, AZ.
  Vinny then returned to Ohio where he obtained an internship at a large commercial recording facility in downtown Cincinnati, and eventually went on to a day job at a Cincinnati audio/video production and duplication firm. In the preceding months Vinny had acquired a very deep and highly influential appreciation for house music, and a pair of Technics turntables was purchased as he took a more serious interest in DJing. Upon Petrosky's relocation to Cincy, the duo formed For Those Who Know as a vehicle to promote their music; together the two began cutting dub plates, and they launched a website that exposed their music to people around the world.

stargazing - march 2002
  Today Vinny lives in the Cincinnati, DJing house and techno numerous times a month at clubs and parties throughout the Midwest. A number of his DJ sets are available for download at www.vinnybricks.com, and he is currently available for worldwide bookings.

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