MAGMATIQ RECORDS VOL. I
MagmatiQ Records Vol. 1, preview-compilation of upcoming artists coming out on MagmatiQ Records in 2012.
8 projects, 8 tracks, 8 fully cross experiences, from folk to dubstep, from ambient to breakbeat and more.
Winter 2012 will provide numerous publications, which are worth to collect and present properly.
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1. AntiteQ - "Nocturne"
Versatile producer, musician and DJ based in Milan, founder of MagmatiQ Records, in the last 2 years hepublished two Eps, various remixes and collaborations with many artists, bands and italian DJs, and over 100 gigsbetween livesets dj sets.
His liveset are entirely made of analogue drum machines, synthesizers, samplers and various paraphernalia, rather than impersonal laptop set. It is his distinctive trademark. His personality disorders led him to divide between idm-ambient-post-rock from which it comes to techno and dubstep-dancefloor, without leaving streaks and psychedelic melancholy.
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2. Schiavocampo - "The Wedding"
Stefano Schiavocampo is an author, singer and guitarist, born in Milan in 1984.
Began playing guitar at 14 years and since its inception writes songs and instrumental small pieces.
In 2006 he moved to Dublin, Ireland. In this period born the first more intimate compositions, with poetic lyrics, and based on a loose structure.
Inspired mainly by the sound of British songwriters and the richness and vitality of Irish folk enviroment, his style is hot and full of depth, in a naked and simple union of voice and guitar.
The result is his first album, produced between 2009 and 2010: 'Children's Corner' (out September 30, 2011).
Between 2006 and 2011, helives in Edinburgh, Rome and Brussels, where he began recording a new album.
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3. Liquid Desire - "Mental"
Behind the moniker Liquid Desire lie two musicians of enormous experience and talent, Matteo Scaioli (formerly the tabla alongside Talvin Singh and Trilok Gurtu, 1/2 of acrobatic duo Percussion Voyager, electronics producer, already published and respected by Margot Records by names such as James Holden and Nathan Fake), and Gabriel Bombardini (guitarist, songwriter and composer from the long and varied resume of experience behind it).
Together they founded the project, Liquid Desire in 2007, creating the same year "Out Docks", published in a limited number of copies on CD, and that will finally on digital in autumn 2011, from which is extracted Mental"
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4. Alessandro Inguglia - "We Still Ask Ourselves Why "
Born in 1990 in Sicily and adopted by Milan, Alessandro Ingugliais a young prodigy in contemporary experimental electronics and a student of the Conservatory of Electronics Music in Como.
He mixes concrete sounds and real instruments to synthesized sounds, beats and works in a sinusoids musical flow difficult to label, ranging from ambient electronics to more cerebral dancefloor.
His debut EP, "Placeless" is set for release in the 'autumn of 2011, anticipated by "We Still Ask Ourselves Why ".
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5. Bienoise - "Flesh Haiku"
Albert Ricca was born in the nuclear October of 1985, grew up talking of horror film with the mother and of surgery with the father. Soon he felt in love with its own keypad and alternate studies in letters to the performances with rock bands, jazz bands and so forth.
He attended the Conservatory of Electronics Music in Como, and recorded band with the odious purpose to steal the sound of the kick and sighing of the singer. Then he takes, mixes, comeback: a childhood immersed in a Lego box with an always present kick.
By this year’s end expect the worst from him. "Flesh Haiku" is just the beginning.
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6. IMG - "Just Breathe And Take It Easy"
IMG is Massimiliano Galli, musician Milan, founder and lead singer of “Rumori dal Fondo”, a band from Milan with almost 10 years of activity behind.
Approaches to electronics with the release of Kid A, but only a few years later he started to study the production, initially as a support for the tracks of the RDF, then as an independent project, on behalf of IMG.
"Just Breathe And Take It Easy" anticipates the release of his first EP “Blossom/Blight”, scheduled for the autumn of 2011.
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7. Urkelle - AP 06
Urkelle is the pseudonym under which Steve Mensink will release his deeper production and his more experimental works.
Steve Mensink is a young Dutch producer born in 1988; the experience gained in the field of sound design for theater and contemporary art allowed him to design his own custom controllers, each of which is unique and handmade in wooden material with a charming style where retro meets crafts creative design. In addition to this, he program its own software to produce unique and unrepeatable samples.
Moving from the 125 bpm path he traveled with previous releases (as Frits Wentink he’s re leasing for labels such as Wolfskuil, My Best Friend Ltd, Grammofonn, Triphouse Records) with Urkelle project he takes a journey through soundscapes and dark spherical, sub-buttons bass, rhythm and magic and relaxed melodies, much in contrast with his work more oriented to house shown at festivals and clubs during this year.
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8. SignA - "Morrowards"
The idea born in 2008 by Massimiliano Galli and Stefano Schiavocampo was to try to write songs blending folk with guitars matrix and minimal electronic psychedelic attitude.
This gives rise to an EP (never officially released) and an album, "Waltzes For Lilliputians", due out in spring 2012, which is extracted "Morrowards".
From 2010 AntiteQ join the projectto manage the electronic part during live gigs.