Dimitri, who is renowned for his chic disco and house sets, first visited the Playboy Mansion in 2000, to launch his seminal mix CD, A Night at the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner offered up the iconic Playboy Mansion to mark the album’s release and Dimitri’s guests included Daft Punk and Kylie Minogue.
Dimitri’s style, a beguiling mix of retro flourishes and carefully selected modern classics, has remained with him through out his adult life, and reflects his deeply-held respect for the disco era.
While fellow DJs have altered their styles to stay abreast of newer trends, Dimitri prefers to stay true to his roots.His CDs remain popular too.
The first Playboy mix has sold just under 400,000 copies, and morphed into a series, the latest inclusion being Dimitri From Paris Return To The Playboy Mansion. The first disc in this new mix pairs break-in-case-of-emergency floor fillers like Jamiroquai ‘Cosmic Girl’ alongside obscure eighties tunes like Musique’s ‘Love Massage’ and recent jazz-pop oddities like Mario Biondi’s ‘This Is What You Are’.
“It is good to remember that I have been in the business over 25 years, we have this saying in France,” he explains, “‘in the old pots you make the better soup’. I do an old fashioned, heart-warming soup. It goes down well; I like it and I want other people to taste it.”