The founding of Plus 8 Records put John Acquaviva and Richie Hawtin at the vanguard of the emerging international electronic music movement and DJ culture.

Acquaviva was one of the first people to take notice and embrace electronic music's digital future at the dawn of 2000 by championing Final Scratch.

And following that success, Acquaviva took another step to help found and launch Beatport.com, the largest dance-music download site in the world.

After the label's hiatus in the late 1990s, Acquaviva relaunched Definitive Recordings in 2005 with an entertainment attorney, Mark Quail.

His international career has spanned well over two decades, throughout thousands of parties with millions of people having heard him play, keeping him in high demand.