Junior Jack, otherwise known as Vito Lucente, was born in Italy but has been residing in Brussels ever since his parents moved to Belgium when he was a teenager.
Vito soon caught the house virus and in the early 90’s he started to release tracks under different names including Kafé (‘Can You See It’), Hugh K (‘Shine On’) and Mr. Jack (‘Only House Music’). In the same period he also launched his own label Noisetraxx to which DJ’s and producers like Roger Sanchez, Mouse T, Erick Morillo and Robbie Rivera contributed their remixing skills.
His first recorded success under the name of Junior Jack was with the single "My Feeling" on PIAS recordings in 2000 which entered all the national charts in Europe, the US and Australia. It was also the first time a Benelux based producer reached the top spot of the European dance charts.
Junior Jack was on the map but it was the next release which proved to be a milestone in his career. The classic bass-line monster "Thrill Me' was released in February 2002 and made a huge impact on dance floors across the world. Whilst being a commercial success, it also showed Vito’s commitment to the underground house sound at a time when his remixes and production skills were already much in demand by increasingly successful clients.
With ‘Thrill Me’, he also firmly established the distinctive sound of the irresistible pumping bassline that has become one of the Junior Jack trademarks.
It was a big club hit that was immediately picked up by many top DJs who made it a dancefloor anthem across the world.
The demand on Junior Jack as a DJ kept increasing and Vito who till then had always preferred working in his studio as a producer, decided to team up with Kid Crème. The pair quickly became one of the most popular acts on the scene and apart from playing regular slots at all the superclubs around the world including a residency at the Ministry Of Sound, they released an In The House mix album on Defected
The name Junior Jack quickly rose to fame on the dance scene and with it came more request on remixes for artists including Bob Sinclar, Moby and ATFC.
In the meantime Vito’s restless creative output under different monikers did not slow down either throughout this busiest period in his career. His signature continued to appear on many successful dancetracks.
At the start of 2003, Vito topped the UK singles chart with ‘Make Luv’, a remake of Oliver Cheatham’s 1983 hit ‘ Saturday Night’ released under the name Room 5 on his own label Noisetraxx. The single kept the no. 1 position for 4 weeks making one of the most successful dance track ever in the UK. In Europe, ‘Make Luv’ held on to its top rank of the European dance charts for an incredible 6 weeks in a row. The track went on to sell a grand total of over 500.000 copies worldwide.
But whilst ‘Make Luv’ was continuing to dominate the local airplay and dance charts across the world, the Junior Jack follow up to ‘Thrill Me’ was shaping up to become THE summer tune of 2003. ‘E-Samba’, an infectious Latin flavoured club smash, was released in the summer and resulted in dance floor frenzy everywhere it was played. The track was voted the summer anthem of 2003 by DJ magazine at the Ibiza awards where Junior Jack and Kid Crème also picked up the award of best newcomer DJ’s.
In the meantime, Vito had been spending a lot of time in his studio working on what so many successful dance producers fail to deliver; a credible artist album with crossover potential.
The hotly anticipated debut full-length Junior Jack release was almost completed when the new Junior Jack single ‘Da Hype’ was serviced to the DJ elite and received the same ecstatic reactions as ‘E-Samba’; months before it’s release as a single it was already featured in Q magazine as one of the top 3 best dance tracks ever. Vito started to work on a vocal version of the album for which Robert Smith contributed the vocals. It was the last track to be added to the album and only fired up the anticipation for Junior Jack’s debut artist album ‘Trust It’.
The album takes the listener on a rollercoaster ride through a wide diversity of styles and influences all blended around Junior Jack’s trademark sound of energetic house rhythms and throbbing bass lines. The Latin influences of ‘E-Samba’ are back in the jazzy soul stomper ‘Hola’ whereas ‘Stupidisco’ with it’s bursting cocktail of electro, funk and disco is already proving to be a favourite amongst the DJ elite. But ‘Trust It’s also shows different sides of Junior Jack as an artist with tracks like "Alone" and the minimal electronic "Depression".
Can Junior Jack live up to the high expectations that have been created with ‘Thrill Me’, ‘E Samba’ and ‘Da Hype’? The album title should put those concerned at ease; ‘TRUST IT!’
Kid Crème [short] biography:
Kid Creme is one of the many names of Nicolas Scaravilli, who actually started to produce Techno & House hit tunes since the mid-nineties. Not only the successfull dj-twin and remixer of Junior Jack, Nicolas is also a music-editing wizard who released hundreds of House remixes, as well for Shakedown as for Kylie Minogue, Planet Funk or Sandy B. You can find him behind the records of 'Monkey Boie Rascal', 'Niquid', 'Kid Crème & David Minjauw', with Jr Jack as 'Maphia Ltd.', and with Psychogene as 'Sharpside'. Living in Belgium doesn't mean a lot to him these years, since he spends most of the time travelling with Vito around the world ... it's easier to find him in Ibiza than in Brussels. By the way he's an outstanding PS2 player... and when he bets, he wins. Never mess with Kid Creme on a videogame ... neither on a dancefloor.
[KC bio written for Deejaybooking.com - 2004 - all rights reserved].
JUNIOR JACK & KID CREME INTERVIEW
Kid Crème’s Austin'sGroove blew up in the club scene after Erick Morillo added a Shawnee Taylor vocal track on the record . His second release, a strong bootleg of Raw Silk's Do It To the Music under the title Hypnotising led him to pick up a remix of at night for Shakedown on Defected Records that instantly got him remix of the week in Seven mag. His remix of Junior Jack’s Thrill Me got straight to the nbr’1 positions of most of the european dancecharts and he remixed Kylie Minogue’s single Love At First Sight.
Junior Jack & Kid Crème were the resident dj’s at Belgium’s leading house club Whos Whos Land in Brussels for a couple of years until it closed down in 2002 for license regulations. Another residency were their Saturday Night parties Rulin at the Ministry Of Sound in London where they raised the roof for 4 rocking hours, once every month of the year 2002. JJ & KC also play In Ibiza every year at various parties including the Ministry of Sounds closing party at Pacha and at performed at many other parties worldwide such as Cream Fresh at Studio 287 in Paris, Millenium in Liege Belgium, Flamingo Club in Essen, Café d’Anvers in Antwerp, Mad in Lausanne, Citadella in Budapest, Locomia in Portugal, Motion Festival in Switserland, Via Notte in Corsica, Zapp in Brighton, Tall Trees in Middlesborough, Pulse/ axe event at Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam and many, many others…
Kid Creme discography:
As Kid Creme: Austin's Groove (Let Me Live), 12" (Subliminal) Austin's Groove (Let Me Live), CD5" (Ink Records) Illegal Beats, 12" (Jalapeno Records) Down And Under, 12" (Oxyd Records) Hypnotising, 12" (Positiva) As Nicolas Scaravilli: Lift Me Up (Groove-Jacker's Radio Mix) on Lift Me Up, 12" (CNR Music Germany) Party Cracher (SDP Mix) on Party Cracher, 12" (Freezzy Jam Records) Reap (Hipnotic Mix) on Reap (What You Sow), 12" (Vendetta Records (Spain)) Reap (Turturro Mix) on Reap (What You Sow), 12" (Vendetta Records (Spain) With Psychogene as Sharpside: Fonk Ma Bitch, 12" (Records Deluxe) Critikal Freaks, 12" (Stormcat Music) Critikal Freaks EP, 12" (Records Deluxe) I Love Techno, 12" (541) Interlude, 12" (Records Deluxe) Belgian Resistance, 12" (Records Deluxe) I Love Techno, 12" (541) Wave Cruising, 12" (Rotation Records) I Love Techno, 12" (Tanga Tech) Apachee In Wonderland, 12" (Records Deluxe) Critical Freaks 2003, 12" (Mutekki) With Jr Jack as Monkey Boie Rascal: Everybody, 12" (Brickhouse Tracks) Dark Taste, 12" (Jalapeno Records) Clap Your Hands, 12" (Sure Player) Everybody, 12" (Illegal Beats) Everybody, 12" (Funktion Recordings) As Niquid: Background EP, 12" (Fluential) Saxaphobia EP, 12" (Fluential)
Junior Jack was on the map but it was the next release which proved to be a milestone in his career. The classic bass-line monster "Thrill Me' was released in February 2002 and made a huge impact on dance floors across the world. Whilst being a commercial success, it also showed Vito’s commitment to the underground house sound at a time when his remixes and production skills were already much in demand by increasingly successful clients.
The name Junior Jack quickly rose to fame on the dance scene and with it came more request on remixes for artists including Bob Sinclar, Moby and ATFC. 
styles and influences all blended around Junior Jack’s trademark sound of energetic house rhythms and throbbing bass lines. The Latin influences of ‘E-Samba’ are back in the jazzy soul stomper ‘Hola’ whereas ‘Stupidisco’ with it’s bursting cocktail of electro, funk and disco is already proving to be a favourite amongst the DJ elite. But ‘Trust It’s also shows different sides of Junior Jack as an artist with tracks like "Alone" and the minimal electronic "Depression".
