Jay West is one of the most important underground house names ever to come out of Southamerica. This established dj and producer has been touring the globe and playing the most important clubs and festivals for the last few years with no sign of stopping.

 With releases on the most notorious labels, like Inland Knight's Drop Music, Lowdown, Agave, Blockhead and many many more, he has gained support from an incredible variety of mainstream djs, from Hernan Cattaneo, Satoshi Tomiie, Dimitri from Paris or Mark Farina, to Dj Heather, Lawnchair Generals, Hipp-e or The Inland Knights...They have all used Jay's flavor to rock their dancefloors. It could be said that almost every house set around contains one of his works!

His dj sets, always fun, original and full of funk, have made thousands of people dance in some of the most important venues in the globe. He was part of Creamfields Buenos Aires (One of the biggest festivals in the world, gathering 60.000 people), Southamerican Music Conference (where he worked as a panelist directing production workshops and seminars), Personal Fest or Marlboro Mxtronica.

Through the last couple years he got to share stages with acts as big as Deep Dish, Massive Attack, Dave Seaman, Pet Shop Boys, Dj Dan, Green Velvet, Pete Tong or Mark Farina.

In his constant touring schedule he has played clubs as big as Pacha Buenos Aires, Crystal in Istanbul, Opium Garden in Miami, Gravity in Lithuania, Lotus Sound Bar in Hawaii or Sutra in Johannesburg.   

New York, London, Los Angeles, Boston, Istanbul, Budapest, Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, San Diego, Buenos Aires, Denver, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mexico, Bogota, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Varna, Oslo are some cities in his neverending list of past presentations, always bringing his particular flavor to the party.

Born in Rosario, Argentina; ever since his childhood he developed a huge passion for the art of sounds, and later, in his teenage years, he formed and leaded several rock bands as a composer, singer, guitar, key player and front man. His love for the creation of rhythm and melodies grew in time, and he began learning and falling in love with funk and disco from the past era. Obsessive collector of Lp´s and always open to new sources of inspiration he discovered House Music and immediately started making beats.

The memories of poolside afterhours in his hometown with hundreds of people dancing to the beats of funk until the sun came out won´t ever leave his mind.

His tracks have been featured in various famous compilations such as Mark Farina's Live In Tokyo OM, BBC essential mix, Johnny Fiasco's Winter sessions, Roger Sanchez's Release Yourself radio show or Journey by Dj's. He has remixed Inland Knights, Jacob London, Troydon, Can Costa amongst a lot of others and been remixed by huge talents like Greenskeepers, Hipp-e, Patrick Turner or Morgan Page.

During the last few years and looking to expand and contribute to the house music world, Jay started Flavor Recordings joining UK's talented Matt Shrewd.  Flavor has grown to be synonymous of funky underground house and has featured some of the most important artists of the scene today like Kinky Movement, Manuel Sahagun, The Littlemen, Toka Project or Da Sunlounge. He also started his own solo imprint in 2008, Candy Music which will feature disco-infused, deep, tech and always groovy beats oriented to move dancefloors all over the globe.

Jay West is only one of the names this Argentinian born self-tought musician uses, in 2007 one of his collaboration projects exploded and gained world respect after a strike of releases in labels like Agave, Alphabet, Shrewd Music, Pilot and Flavor. The Candy Dealers are quickly becoming a household name in the underground house scene. He has also done work under monikers like Pushing Boundaries (with Matt Shrewd), Western Union, Shanty Town or The Golosines....

Always defying himself to improve and with a heavy schedule of gigs and releases, every year is a new challenge for Jay, with lots of new projects and trying to break more boundaries. You better be there to enjoy it!!

Discography:

2004

Jay West - Not Like You / Different Blue [HURON RECORDS SPAIN]

2005

Jay West – Wild Wild West EP [LOWDOWN]

Jay West - The Way You Walk (Morgan Page mix) / Absence (Patrick Turner mix)

[SPLEEN RECORDS]

Jay West & Diego Cid - Body Culture (Army Of One, Buddy System & Felli mix) [STUPENDOUS]

Jay West - Precious EP [RANDOM HOUSE USA]

Can Costa - Play Guru (Paolo Mojo & Jay West mixes) [VAPOURIZE UK]

(a) Vanderkoy – Esi House (Jay West Flavor mix) [INDEPENDENT RECORDS]

2006:

Jay West – Feelin Sexxy EP (Dj Freestyle mix) [GUESTHOUSE]

Jay West – Back Rub Methods EP [AGAVE]

Jay West – Junky Junk [SO SOUND]

Shawn Ward - Twilight (Jay West, Joey Youngman & Vernon mix) [BLOCKHEAD US]

Pushin Boundaries – Keep It Goin EP (Shrewd & Jay West mixes) [GUESTHOUSE]

Jay West – Colliron Jams EP (Greenskeepers mix) [LOST MY DOG]

Matt Shrewd – Playin (The Candy Dealers mix) [FLAVOR]

Jay West – Back South EP [BAMBINO]

Sahagun – U Can Sample (Jay West mix) [FLAVOR]

Jay West - Power 2 Create EP [BLOCKHEAD US]

Sahagun – Turkey's Wrap (Jay West mix) [KOLOUR]

Western Union – Like No Other [GHOST]

2007:

Sam Lawrence – Parappa (Jay West Pimp Of Sound Mix) [MIMOSA RECORDINGS]

Jay West – Flyin High EP [PILOT]

Jay West – Hear To Stay EP [DROP]

Matt Shrewd – Sounds Good To Me (Pushin Boundaries mix) [FLAVOR]

Jay West – Nastee / Make My Day (Bon Johnson & Replika mixes) [HEADTUNES]

Sound Navigators – Shredded Groove (Jay West & Joey Youngman mixes) [LINGO]

The Candy Dealers – Who´s Disco EP [SHREWD MUSIC]

The Candy Dealers – Ooh la la (Hipp-e mix) [AGAVE]

Jay West – Spring Steam [FLAVOR SAMPLER]

Troydon – I Wanna Tell Ya (Jay West mix) [DOWNSOUTH MUSIC]

Western Union – Who U Gunna Call [GUESS WHO]

Western Union – Around The West [HERBAL ESSENCE]

Jay West – Everywhere We Dance EP (GioM and Christian Malloni rmx)[FLAVOR]

Edmund – Alguien Para Recordar (The Candy Dealers mix) [CONNECTED]

C Soul – Oh No (Jay West mix) [ONE THIRTY]

Bang Bang – Prison Of Attraction (Jay West mix) [SHREWD]

The Candy Dealers – Disco Treats EP [AGAVE]

Western Union – Cold Soup [CANDY TOWN]

2008:

Jay West – We Funk EP [FUNKFIELD]

The Candy Dealers – Life Is Sweet EP [ALPHABET US]

Jay West – For A Change EP [SO SOUND]

The Candy Dealers – Cherry Groove [LINGO]

Jacob London – Feelin Kinda Willy (The Candy Dealers mix) [HOUSE OF KNOBS]

Inland Knights – Soundsystem (Jay West mix) [FUNKFIELD]

Joshua Heath – Two Lives (Jay West mix) [VOLUPTUOUS]

Jay West – Into The Land Of Funk EP [DROP]

Pete Da Feet – Moscow (The Candy Dealers mix) [HEADTUNES]

Jay West – In Motion EP [MOTION MUSIC]

Shanty Town – Street Delight [EIGHT TRACKS]

Tracks Included In:

Disco Monkeys (2005) [Craig De Souza´s EVERYTHING Southafrica] [USM Records Southafrica]

Keep It Goin (2006) [Chuck Daniels´ Night Moves CD] [OOMPH USA]

Shake Ur West (2006) [Bryan Jones´ Music For A Changing World CD] [CONTROL Recordings USA]

Power To Create (2006) [Johnny Fiasco's OM Winter Sessions 2006] [OM Records USA]

Turnin Round (2006) [Dirty Dutch CD mixed by Chuckie] [EMI Netherlands]

Jumpman (2006) [Journey By Dj´s Ley Lines 2 mixed by Journeyman] [Journey By Dj´s]

How Funky (2007) [Q Burns Abstract Message Agave Nectar CD] [AGAVE Records USA]

Speak Loud (2007) [Ken ECB Primal CD] [PRIMAL Records USA]

How Sweet (2007) [Jay West Flavoritism Vol 1 CD] [FLAVOR Records UK]

Where U Belong (2007) [Mark Farina OM Live In Tokyo] [OM Records USA]