Paul Carpenter

Marcello Pierpaolo Caroppo (MPC) is an Italian DJ and producer. He was born in April 1981 in Tricase, located in the Italian province of Lecce, Puglia. He spent his early childhood in Ruffano, a small village in Lecce with around 10,000 inhabitants, until the age of 18. His first foray into the world of DJ-ing was in 1994, at the ripe old age of 13 when, thanks to help from his parents and earnings from a series of summer jobs, he finally bought his first turntable and started dazzling crowds at parties with his DJ-ing prowess. MPC then took his skills to other towns, including Florence and then to Bologna – his current place of abode – where he has established his career as a DJ in clubs and producing radio shows. His first real success arrived in September 2003, when he started work as a DJ and producer for Radio International (Bologna). In 2005, together with other deejays, he collaborated on the music radio program, MIXING IN ACTION, which was broadcast in syndication on over 25 radio stations nationwide. Following on from MIXING IN ACTION, MPC was instrumental in creating the FUTURA FM Project, an online radio, which enabled him to put into practice all the skills he had learned over the past years. He was personally in charge of musical programming and of HOUSOLOGY LIVE, a programme broadcast in syndication on over 30 radios throughout the country. In November 2007 he started his cooperation with ALTERNATIVE SOUND PLANET, a record shop and recording studio, where he worked with many different labels in the House scene belonging to THE SAIFAM GROUP. During his time at the studio, he adopted a series of pseudonyms, including: PAUL CARPENTER, DJ FERNANDO LOPEZ (until 2011), BOLOGNA CONNECTION (until 2011), BAD BROS (until 2011), AFRIKANER (until 2011), K88 (until 2011) and many others, so as to vary the countless releases throughout the year. He ended his cooperation with SAIFAM in March 2011 and started a new partnership with a historical dance-music label, EXPANDED MUSIC, where he currently curates the different activities of the label. MPC continues to produce dance music using these stage names: PAUL CARPENTER / OPRAK / CAROPPO