The fourth mix of Electronic Dicitionary is brought by Andrea Benedetti, one of the most important dj and producer for the Rome scene, since Day One. He made for us a very cybersonic selection, mixing breaky Techno and Electro. Soul given to machines sounds.
Bio:
Andrea Benedetti began his activity in the field of music as a DJ in the early 80s working in some roman discos and radios. His interest in production starts instead in the late 80s with the purchase of the first synthesizers. in 1990 he created a recording studio together with his old friend, the musician and phonic sound,, Eugenio Vatta.
They set together their technical and musical skills, starting to build the basics for the development of their own personal sound that will lead to separate productions, but also in collaborations under the pseudonym Frame. In the same year he collaborated with the first Italian experimental techno label called SNS (Sounds Never Seen) owned by the roman DJ / musician Lory D.
After some releases on several roman electronic techno labels, in 1993 he created his own label Plasmek trough which he developed his own musical ideas more and more, and managed to create a network for other techno and electronic producers in Rome.
The label will become the following year the epicenter of a pool made of roman labels called Finalfrontier which was created the following year with Marco Passarani, owner of Nature and Pigna Records. Since 1999 Finalfrontier has been personally managed by Marco Passarani.
Also interested in the informative aspect of electronic music, he began working as a speaker in several roman radios and writing for some foreign magazines (Under One Sky- New York, EAR- Strasbourg, Freestyler, Zurich). in 1993 he created the first Italian techno and electronic fanzine called Tunnel.
He collaborated with Orbeat, the first techno and electronic free mag made in Naples and with Superfly, a bimonthly musical magazine created in Rome and distributed on newsstands.
The informative activity also takes place through conferences organized around Italy:
- in 1994 in Bologna in collaboration with the multicultural Link center in Bologna he held a conference on "History of Techno Music";
- in 1995 he took part in the conference "Music and electronics" within the Music and Technology review organized by the municipality of Casalecchio sul Reno in collaboration with Link and IASPM (Italian Association for the Study of Popular Music);
- in 1996 he joins in the conference "The boundaries of dance. Research and point of the situation ”at the Distorsonie festival in Bologna;
- in 1996 he took part in the conference "Dance culture or culture of electronic dance" organized by Nightwave at the Rimini Fair;
- in 2000 he realized with Marco Passarani and Eugenio Vatta the multimedia musical course entitled "Musical Waves - Students in action for the design of sound materials" organized by the Diogene Cultural Association with the patronage of the Department of Culture and Youth Policies of the Province of Rome in collaboration with the Provveditorato to the studies in Rome;
-in 2001, within Distorsonie and the FuturShow, with Marco Passarani and Eugenio Vatta, he proposed a workshop of the history of modern electronic music and on the interaction between technology and music;
- in 2002 he took part with Marco Passarani in the course "Fronte del Palco" organized by the Municipality of Modena with a workshop entitled "Electronic music: what it is and who does it";
- in 2003 he took part in the "Sound analogies" workshop within the electronic music festival "Df03"; - again in 2003 he took part in the DIS.LAB workshop within the DISSONANZE music and electronic arts festival with the speech "Da Russolo to Techno: the relationship between music and technology".
Tracklist:
1. Abstract Thought - Untitled 2
2. N-TER - Silent memories
3. TenGrams - Hear
4. Marco Passarani - Needlegroove
5. Paul Villard - Goblin Gas
6. Neil Landstrumm - The Night Tripper
7. BFX - Jelly
8. Men With Secrets - The Misfortunes Of Virtues
9. Neil Landstrumm - Cleo Satan
10. DMX Krew - Mystic Reveletion
11. Moken - Unreleased
12. Abstract Thought - Untitled 3
13. Teslasonic - Magnifying Transmitter (4x4 edit)
14. Neil Landstrumm - Night Walker Zwei
15. Shake - Sonar 123
16. Noamm - Bipolar Machine
17. Kuldaboli - Salini Blaoir Ut
18. Steffy x Virginia - Help Me Understand
