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Where are you currently based and what is the music scene like there?
We live in italy,here the scene is around italian trapper e and house music.
How did you first start playing music?
I start playing at 14, for school birthday parties.
We signed with Sony Music.
Sound is always influenced from market, same for all, but have origins from personal style, we born with house music, and this sound is from there….
I sent demo to Jo3l,who involved Nathan C and they wrote lyrics.
We produce track with Jo3L and Nathan C end of last year.
How did you approach the recording/production process?
What programs/instruments did you use?
I work old school, cubase.
Fishing, and doing sport.
We want make many collaboration with different artists.
Of course Spaghetti, as Italian 🙂
Title: Sexy
Label: Arkade
Release date: March 20, 2020
Kaskade turns up the proverbial heat several notches with his latest release “Sexy,” a real club banger from his upcoming “REDUX 004” EP. Diverting from his more melodic sounds, the icon leans into a more tech-house influence with bouncy, driving basslines and a dirty drop that will set dance floors on fire. “Sexy” incorporates some fun expected touches, such as the catchy vocal riff and piano interlude. It’s no coincidence that the Redux 004 EP has only four tracks, each designed for its own audience. Be prepared for an experience like no other as Kaskade immerses you in the deep, groovy core of dance music. Read on below to hear what Kaskade has to say about “Sexy“:
“If there is such thing as a peak time REDUX banger, it would be my new song, “Sexy.” As the thought of REDUX has matured, so has the music that I make for it. I think about how each song will fit into a set, how it will vibe with the crowd. ‘Sexy‘ is a result of that progression. Those who might not understand what I’m doing with REDUX will still be waiting for the drop, but the ones who know… will REALLY feel it when this one slaps.” – Kaskade
As a household name in electronic music for nearly two decades, Kaskade needs no introduction. His list of achievements is a mile long: 11 studio albums, 7 GRAMMY nominations, the first solo electronic dance artist to sell out both Navy Pier in Chicago and the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the first DJ to ever secure a Las Vegas residency, and the first electronic artist to headline Coachella. Less tangible but even more important has been his influence on dance music tastes and culture for generations of listeners. Often Kaskade is one of the artists who introduced now-veteran listeners to the genre, and such fans are usually fans for life. In 2019, he worked with multi-award winner Meghan Trainor on “With You” and Gorgon City on “Go Slow,” among solo releases, such as “My Light,” “Come On,” and official remixes for the likes of Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez, and Gwen Stefani earlier. Kaskade continues what has become a nostalgic tradition for many dance music veterans and a cherished experience for new listeners. Stay tuned for more news from Kaskade in 2020.
CONFIRMED LINEUP (A-Z):
ARCHIE HAMILTON (UK)
ART DEPARTMENT (US)
CAMEA (GERMANY)
CARLO LIO (CANADA)
DAVIDE SQUILLACE (SPAIN)
DETLEF (GREECE)
JAMES ZABIELA (UK)
JEAN PIERRE & JESSE CALOSSO (US)
LUIGI MADONNA (NETHERLANDS)
MAHONY (ROMANIA)
MARCO BAILEY (BELGIUM)
MARK REEVE (GERMANY)
MATADOR (IRELAND)
NAKADIA (GERMANY)
NEVERDOGS (IBIZA)
OLIVER HUNTEMANN (GERMANY)
OXIA (FRANCE)
PACO OSUNA (SPAIN)
PAN-POT (GERMANY)
RIVA STARR (ITALY)
SÉBASTIEN LÉGER (PORTUGAL)
VANJEE (US)
AND RESIDENTS:
JOSH VINCENZO (UK)
KNOWHAT (UK)
SARA SIMONIT (DUBAI)
PLUS MORE TBA
Due to the global Coronavirus crisis, the popular social media platform Mr. Afterparty are set to unite DJs from across the world by hosting a 24hr+ live streaming charity fundraiser ‘Last Night A Streaming Saved My Life’ via their Facebook channel to raise money for those most in need at this difficult time.
The continuous 24hr+ streaming marathon will go live from 6pm (GMT) on Saturday 21st March and will be broadcast from 24+ different locations featuring sets from over 24 of the word’s finest DJs including Archie Hamilton (UK), Art Department (US), Camea (Germany), Carlo Lio (Canada), Davide Squillace (Spain), Detlef (Greece), James Zabiela (UK), Jean Pierre & Jesse Calosso (US), Luigi Madonna (Netherlands), Mahony (Romania), Marco Bailey (Belgium), Mark Reeve (Germany), Matador (Ireland), Nakadia (Germany), Neverdogs (Ibiza), Oliver Huntemann (Germany), Oxia (France), Paco Osuna (Spain), Pan-Pot (Germany), Riva Starr (Italy), Sébastien Léger (Portugal) and Vanjee (US) amongst others.
The stream will also be shared by a multitude of industry partners such as magazines, radio stations, record labels, booking and PR agencies, promoters and clubs.
All money raised will be allocated to causes for the people and areas most affected by the Coronavirus outbreak such as the International Red Cross (Various Countries) and the Coronavirus Relief Fund, plus eventually other local Coronavirus fundraising projects.
This ambitious initiative was born after a recent video post, on the channel, of Italian’s showing real resilience/character in the face of adversity by singing and dancing from their balconies (see here) resonated with the world and went viral receiving more than 55M+ unique views, 464K+ shares, 330K reactions, 68K+ comments in just 2 days.
Mr. Afterparty says: “Some of our team are Italian natives and after having experienced what our families and friends are currently going through due to this unprecedented coronavirus outb
All donations are greatly appreciated and payments will be clearly documented with updates sent to all donors.
To donate please visit:
To watch the stream please visit:
With everyone having to stay home for the sake of the health of humanity, Audio Obscura decided to step in to raise money for the WHO and its partners. They are partnering with A’DAM Toren who made sure the beautiful The Loft could be the scene for the special livestream series called “Audio Obscura Sunset – Charity”. By doing this they also give back to the visitors around the world who are faced with canceled shows everywhere. The best part: while enjoying the breathtaking livestream, they can actually contribute to the response to the pandemic that is caused by COVID-19.
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The STMPD RCRDS family have decided to rally together to offer fans something really special during these difficult times. To spread acts of musical kindness around the world right now, they have decided to stage an online STMPD RCRDS Festival on Saturday March 28th, bringing you DJ sets from your favourite STMPD RCRDS artists and friends.
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This week, Juno Mamba (real name Vinci Andanar) dropped a jaw-droppingly good live performance of ‘Slow Light’ filmed in an old warehouse. The video was directed by ARIA-nominated director Sanjay De Silva who last year won the J Award for Australian Music Video of the Year (Sampa The Great’s ‘Final Form’).
2019 saw Juno Mamba explode onto the scene with debut single ‘Flicker’, followed by his emotionally charged track and video ‘Blossom’. These deeply moving compositions (and the recent addition of ‘Slow Light’) explore the depths of human emotion, while the Light Echoes EP serves to examine the world; past, present and future. Over the course of four delicious tracks and two remixes, Juno Mamba poses the questions; where do we fit in? And how can we contribute positively to this world in what we do, and inevitably leave behind?
Juno Mamba’s intrinsic ability to create compositions that bend the very edges of your mind is something that is as clear as day, with ‘Flicker’ and ‘Blossom’ achieving widespread acclaim from around the globe. Praise and support have flooded in from the likes of The Ransom Note, ADSR Collective, Our Culture Mag, Stereofox, KALTBLUT, with tracks getting airtime on BBC Radio 1 and US college radio. Both tracks were also added to a stack of streaming playlists including Spotify’s Top-Shelf Electronic, Apple Music’s Global Dance (US, UK, AUS, MX, FR) and Amazon Music’s global playlist Progressive House Now.
Juno Mamba’s releases have also seen DJ support from the likes of The Drifter, Jacques Renault, Maxxi Soundsystem, Tensnake, Dayne S, Just Kiddin, Lane 8 and Doctor Dru amongst others. The EP features official remixes from Canada-via-Berlin producer Nathan Micay (LuckyMe/Whities) and London based producer TSHA (Counter Records).
Juno Mamba recently wrapped two hugely successful headline shows, playing to full rooms in Sydney and Melbourne. He was set to announce larger shows for the coming months but has resigned to spending his self-isolation period working on new music and expanding his live show so that he can deliver an even bigger Juno Mamba experience when the time is right.
The ambiguity can seem vast or obscured, but the feeling is with the listener. If it’s new or old, the beginning or the end, let Light Echoes remind us to embrace life’s endless journey.
Stay tuned and stay safe.
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Bootleg Rascal and their team are sad to announce the postponement of their upcoming East Coast tour, and performances at A Day on the Lawn and Big Pineapple Music Festival, due to recent developments around the COVID-19 pandemic.
The duo will reschedule their East Coast capital city shows to mid-late September 2020, while Big Pineapple Music Festival will be moved to Saturday 21 November.
While the band is forced off the road, front man Carlos Lara and guitarist Jimmy Young will head back into the studio, to work on their new forthcoming staggered EP titled ‘Collaborations of Very Isolated Delinquents “19’ – inspired by current events and premonitions experienced by Lara in late-2019.
The first single ‘We Independent’ is set for release on Friday May 22.
Lara explains the motivation behind the project:
“While we can’t tour, Jim and myself thought it could be cool to set ourselves a challenge of dropping a new track each month and tie it all into a conceptual EP. The record is set to be heavily influenced by what’s currently happening in the world and some wild dreams I had towards the end of 2019, where the world had been consumed by biological warfare”.
On Bootleg Rascal’s rescheduled East Coast capital city tour, opening support act SCABZ will remain on all new dates, while main support Shag Rock can sadly no longer move forward on the tour. Bootleg Rascal will announce a replacement for Shag Rock in the coming weeks.
All purchased tickets are valid for the rescheduled dates; however, if punters cannot make it along, information around processing refunds will be made available from each respective ticket selling company.
All tickets purchased for Big Pineapple Music Festival are valid for the new date, however refunds are also available for those who cannot attend. Ticket holders will be able to apply for a refund through Moshtix.
A Day on the Lawn have yet to advise a replacement date, but for now, all ticket holders will receive a refund from Oztix.
‘We Independent’ is available worldwide on Friday May 22
BOOTLEG RASCAL
RESCHEDULED TOUR DATES
Tickets on-sale now via www.bootlegrascal.com
FRI 18 SEP | HOWLER, MELBOURNE VIC
w/ SCABZ
FRI 25 SEP | MARRICKVILLE BOWLS CLUB, SYDNEY NSW
w/ SCABZ
SAT 26 SEP | WOOLLY MAMMOTH, BRISBANE QLD
w/ SCABZ
SAT 21 NOV | BIG PINEAPPLE MUSIC FESTIVAL, SUNSHINE COAST QLD
w/ Hilltop Hoods and DUNE RATS
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Inspired by his own experiences with mental health, singer/songwriter/producer Slinky dives into deep ideas and darker sounds with new single ‘Crazy’.
Recorded and produced in his bedroom in Sydney, Australia and released on his own record label Slinky Sounds, “Crazy” explores themes of anxiety, depression and alienation in modern society. Slinky’s insight and wordplay used in the lyrics “nihilist fortress, paranoia portrait” and “rainbow acid rain pouring out my brain” showcase his individuality as a writer. Combined with his earworm melodies, Slinky creates depth in the often shallow format of pop songs.
“Mental health is an important subject matter,” says Slinky. “It can be extremely hard to communicate with others when you’re dealing with mental health problems. I felt that writing a song conveying what I’ve experienced may help people who have been through something similar. The song carries a positive message – you’re never alone when dealing with mental health issues because they’re universal.”
Slinky’s voice moves from silky smooth to emotionally gritty as soaring synths, R&B grooves and psychedelic guitars create an extraordinary soundscape; a mash-up he confidently owns. Mixed by Jackson Barclay (Vera Blue, Timberwolf) “Crazy” is a soul infused synth rock banger with psychedelic overtones, taking influences from Tame Impala, SZA, Arctic Monkeys and D’Angelo, as well as Bowie and Prince for good measure.
After a busy 2019 playing solo shows throughout Europe and supporting Aussie legends 1927 in Australia, Slinky is back with his best work yet, with more to come throughout 2020.
www.instagram.com/slinkysounds
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Stars have aligned, and East Coast will meet West in a collision of pure, unadulterated, ecstatic rock when Brooklyn-born ENDLESS BOOGIE return to our shores in April with special guests, acclaimed Oakland-formed outfit HOWLIN’ RAIN.
Endless Boogie will be coming for the 4th or 5th time (no one is sure, and, as the saying goes, if you can remember an ENDLESS BOOGIE tour you weren’t really there); HOWLIN’ RAIN, who are the creation of Comets On Fire main man and guitarist Ethan Miller, will be visiting for the first time.
ENDLESS BOOGIE take their name from John Lee Hooker’s 1971 LP, which should give you some idea about their minimalist approach and single-minded drive. Their ethos is written clearly in their name and reflected in their practice; ENDLESS BOOGIE worship the jam. There are no rehearsals, formulas, or setlists to which they cling. Instead, they throw themselves to the bluesy, heavy-psych abyss of beautiful spontaneity and swagger. A beautiful spontaneity that reflects their love of the likes of Can and the Stooges, and a swagger that reflects their love of Australian pioneers like Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls, and Sunbury-era Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs.
Formed in 1997 by a group of like-minded Matador Records employees and legendary record dealer/collector Paul “Top Dollar” Major, the band played its first show four years later opening for fellow Matador alumni and Coloured Balls fan Stephen Malkmus of Pavement. They’ve never been in a hurry; their first studio album was 2008’s Focus Level. Their latest album Vibe Killer, released in 2017, is highlighted by “Back in ’74”, in which Major describes a misadventure involving LSD and his first exposure to Kiss at a St Louis kite-flying competition. At the same time Major had his first coffee table book published, Feel The Music: The Psychedelic Worlds Of Paul Major; this guy is very much the guru of sub-underground psychedelia and hard rock arcana. More recently they’ve officially reissued their early collections of rehearsal space jams, entitled Volume I and Volume II, which they self-released in 2005 before their inaugural trip overseas (to play the Slint-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties).
HOWLIN’ RAIN’s arrival will mark the first time that Ethan Miller plays Australia since Comets on Fire blazed a trail across the Southern sky and lit up Meredith with an unforgettable appearance at Golden Plains in 2007. HOWLIN’ RAIN came together in 2004. Initially an attempt to do something more rustic, the group found it hard to tone things down; the result was an electrifying sound that mixed high energy with soulful harmony. Rick Rubin signed them to American Recordings and decided to make the Great 21st Century Rock Album with them. They achieved that – their third album The Russian Wilds is both breathtakingly audacious and accomplished, but the slow, painstaking work with Rubin broke the band, and Miller eventually had to start a-fresh. He also started his own label to release his own music and that of his friends. In addition to the most recent HOWLIN’ RAIN studio album, 2018’s The Alligator Bride and the brand new live album Under the Wheels, Vol.1, Silver Current Records has released material by friends including the Wooden Shjips, the late Neal Casal, Earthless (whose guitarist Isaiah Mitchell was an HR member circa The Russian Wilds), Comets on Fire and Ethan’s other current bands, the speed freaking scuzz punkers Feral Ohms and the Sub Pop-signed pastoral psychedelic ensemble Heron Oblivion.
Silver Current describes HOWLIN’ RAIN’s latest studio album as “indebted to classic rock formations like the Grateful Dead’s Europe ‘72 and Free’s masterpiece of atmospheric, minimalist blues, 1969’s Fire and Water.” Miller references Kerouac: “The guiding principle for The Alligator Bride was to create ‘Neal Cassady Rock’. Which is to say, high energy, good-times adventure music, driving the hippie bus, shirtless and stoned, up for four days straight, and extremely fuzzy around the edges.”
Special guest in Sydney is the legendary feedtime!
ENDLESS BOOGIE & HOWLIN’ RAIN TOGETHER
(Existing tickets will be honoured. Refunds available for one month.)
THURS OCT 29 – THE TOTE, MELBOURNE w/guests
https://thetotehotel.oztix.
THURS NOV 5 – CROWBAR, SYDNEY w/ feedtime
https://crowbarsyd.oztix.com.
also playing @ BOOGIE, TALLAROOK, VIC
(Oct 30,31, Nov 1)
http://www.boogie.net.au/
JUST ENDLESS BOOGIE (NO HOWLIN’ RAIN)
FRI NOV 6 – BLACK BEAR LODGE, BRISBANE
https://www.eventbrite.com.
SAT NOV 7 – ELTHAM HOTEL, NORTHERN NSW
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/
Italian duo Supernova returns to Gorge’s and Nick Curly’s imprint 8BIT. After their hot releases in 2020 on Defected and Downtown Underground early this year, they drop ‘My Vision’ EP.
The duo, that now owns 3 labels Lapsus Music, Downtown Underground and Blackboard, has always demonstrated a breadth of influences across their impressive catalogue, ranging from Chicago house and acid right through to hip-hop, funk and jazz.
The pair bring together a raw house solid beat with an “old school feeling”. Added to this is driving strings pattern topped by the wonderful vocals of UK singer Medusa. The result is a record that will certainly stand out.
The second track “Deep Side Of Things”, shows Supernova’s deepest side of production with a more minimalist approach to drum beat construction.
Play ‘My Vision’ below and LISTEN HERE.
Photo credit: The Sauce / Tyler Bell
Ocean Alley have announced their 2020 national tour dates have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with all shows rescheduled for February and March 2021.
Originally due to take place from May 1 to June 5 this year, it wasn’t possible to proceed with the tour amid public health concerns and the Federal Government’s ban of mass gatherings indefinitely.
Now kicking off with two hometown shows at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on February 6 and 7, the tour will then make its way through Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and finish at Melbourne Arena on March 24. Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and Dulcie will both remain on the tour for all dates as support. By the time these dates come around, it will mark almost three years since Ocean Alley’s last capital city headline run.
The band released a statement on social media, sharing “The reschedule is due to the COVID-19 situation that has developed at home and abroad, and is in line with the restrictions and recommendations put in place by the Australian Government to keep people safe… Thanks for your patience and understanding through what is a difficult time for the wider entertainment industry and everyone around the world. We look forward to finally seeing you again on the road around Australia.”
All tickets that have already been purchased will be valid across the new show dates. Any ticket-holders who are unable to attend the rescheduled dates can safely and securely re-sell their tickets via the Tixel marketplace or obtain a full refund from the point of purchase.
If you or someone you know works in music and needs someone to talk to, or you’d like to donate to the services supporting artists and their teams, reach out to:
Support Act – 1800 959 500 | supportact.org.au
Lifeline – 13 11 14 | lifeline.org.au
One Eighty – 02 8322 4822 | oneeighty.org.au
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