Originally released in 1994 on Calypso Records / Irma Records in a triple vinyl promo white
label version, Don Carlos's album Aqua is the second album by the Varese-based DJ
producer, already then known for his first two singles Alone and Mediterraneo, then both
included in his first album entitled Mediterraneo and released only in Compact Disc format
in 1992 for the American market printed and distributed by IRMA U.S.A., the American
subsidiary of IRMA Records Italy. The same fate will also have the Compact Disc format of
the Aqua album, again printed only on the American market. But the triple vinyl, printed in
a limited edition of 500 copies in a white generic envelope, was never reissued and has
become a rare record over the years. After almost thirty years, after countless requests for
reissues, especially in the last few years in which the name and music of Don Carlos has
made a comeback, Irma Records has decided to reissue the vinyl in exactly the same
original triple version. DJ Don Carlos (born Carlo Troja) with his productions in the 90s has
become one of the cult producers for DJs around the world. His track Alone released in
1991 for Calypso was and still is one of the classics of House Music, played by all the major
American and British DJs. At the time of its publication it was considered an underground
song and therefore did not sell very much, but over the years its myth has grown thanks to
its subsequent productions as for example his second single, the EP entitled Mediterraneo,
Several other singles followed, another album, always printed only in the USA, entitled
Aqua, from which a triple promo vinyl was extracted which today is one of the artist's most
requested rarities. In Italy his third album was released in 2002 entitled The Music In My
Mind where Kim Mazelle, Michelle Weeks, Taka Boom and Kevin Bryant were present as
vocal guests. In 2009 a collection of the first two albums released in the USA titled
Mediterraneo-Club Favourite Collection '90-98 and in 2010 his fourth album entitled The
Cool Deep which reproduced the sounds closest to his first productions. Also active as a
remixer for Italian and international labels, one of his most important works is the remix of
Byron Stingily of the song You Make Me Feel of which he made a worldwide hit. As a
producer he also used other pseudonyms such as Montego Bay, Aquanuts, Sotterranea and
Love 2 Love Orchestra. He has played and plays in different countries such as London, New
York, Miami and at various festivals, such as the Robot and the Stickermule Festival in an
evening with Apparat, Derrick May, DJ Koze, Lil 'Louis, Young Marco and Ellen Allien, LTJ
Xperience.