Massimo Coletta y Paolo Caiazzo

The founders of New York People

Two students founded the miniteca New York People in 1982, the one with the New York skyline on the booth: the names behind one of the great Caracas crews.

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Two names, one crew

Massimo Coletta and Paolo Caiazzo founded the miniteca New York People in 1982. According to the miniteca account, they were students when they put the rig together, which went on to be one of the benchmark minitecas of Caracas, with the New York skyline booth as its seal. At the end of the 80s Carlos Visconti joined to reinforce the crew, with the aim of expanding the coverage areas of its services.

Professional discjockeys (now DJ) of the Caracas scene passed across its stage, and the crew had the backing of the radio station Caracas 750. This entry documents the two founders as hidden figures: the names behind the brand, beyond the mixers who were the public face.

Editorial note: a joint entry is published because this was a founding by a pair and because of the scarcity of individual biographical data. Should differentiated personal trajectories emerge, individual entries may be published.

A note on the name and the Archive's entries

In the CMTK Archive the miniteca New York New York (Minitecas: Mobile Power collection), the Club New York New York (Legendary Discotheques collection) and the miniteca New York People, founded by Coletta and Caiazzo, coexist: they are separate entries — two different minitecas and one discotheque — and they are not merged.

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Credits and sources

· “La Revista de las Minitecas” (DJ Vladimir Medina Edition), p. 14 — the crew's first-person account: the 1982 founding by Massimo Coletta and Paolo Caiazzo, the roster of professional discjockeys and the arrival of Carlos Visconti at the end of the 80s. The page tells the founding stage under the name “New York New York”; the Archive records New York New York and New York People as separate minitecas, each with its own entry.
· External corroboration: the document “Minitecas de los 80 y 90 y sus DJ” (re-hosted on idoc.pub, scribd, dokumen.tips) — it records the founding in 1982, the student origin, the shift to “New York People” (from 1985), the discjockeys and the sponsorship of Caracas 750. Source caution: this document belongs to the same textual family as the magazine, so it does not constitute a fully independent second source.
· Under documentary verification: full names and biographical details of Coletta and Caiazzo, and the complete chronology of New York People.

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Source consulted on July 10, 2026

80s · 90s · Minitecas · Disc jockey