Legendary Italian DJ Claudio Coccoluto dies aged 59
Radio Deejay, where Coccoluto used to host the COCCO show.According to the report, Coccoluto passed away after “fighting for more than a year against an illness”.Tributes have since been paid online by the likes of Pete Tong, Defected Records and Glitterbox owner Simon Dunmore, Gilles Peterson and UNKLE. You can see their messages below.Dunmore described Coccoluto as “a giant in the Italian House scene” and shared ‘Belo Horizonti’, which the late DJ released in the mid-’90s under the moniker The Heartists alongside Savino Martinez.Later remixed by Basement Jaxx, the song was hailed by Dunmore as an “absolute gem” and “a Balearic classic”.