Andrea Prezioso

urday night fever was the first movie to actually recognize dj's main role in disco world, entertaining with their talent. Amongst the first records i bought and carefully listened to Tavare's "Sky High" and Chic's "Good times". At age 14, together with Giorgio (11 at the time) I first stepped into the top club at the time: The Much More, inRome. There we eventually found out what true musical sensations were all about with DJ Faber Cucchetti. Vinyl Passion keeps growing and so did my collection: Kraftwerk, Kool and the Gang, Hall e Oates, Howard Jones, E.L.O, Prelude's mixes, Profile and Sam. While Giorgio was getting hypnotized by Harbie Hancock's "Rock IT!", first record to bring scratch art to the masses, I was popping in and out of record stores spending my weeks budget in a mere day. DUring the highschool years i've been basically just djing for birthday parties and such until a friend of mine introduced me to Radio RAM102 where i start doing mixtapes. There i met Lorenzo (Jovanotti) that seemed to appreciate my work and proposed me to join him at Rome's "Veleno" booth. We played early Hip-Hop (Run DMC, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys) early House Music (Marshall Jefferson, TOdd Terry,
Adonis, Raze) and obviously pop music (Rick Astley, Curiosity killed the cat, Duran Duran). Thanks to this experience i eventually learned how foundamental the dj role was in getting people entertained;
I never appreciated djs playing just for themselves, obsessioned trying to get everybody to listen to their sounds, somehow ignoring people's own desire. True Djing is about getting down to the listener's soul trying to traslate very different musical cultures and different sound layers in small steps, to avoid incomprension. Its a slow process on daily basis, step by step: today i play music that 20 years ago i couldnt even understand. This also thanks to Lorenzo, what he was achieving with his
carisma was unique, he cuold make you bounce to the hardcore rap the take you up with Ah-Ah and kill you with Criminal Event's "Put the needle on a record" - during those years
I also first time travelled to London with Gio to the DMC finals astounded by DJ Cash Money. I later worked at Riccione's "Acquafan" for a couple fo years (Giorgio also won the Walky Cup Competition with A. APrea there)the Rome's "Hysteria", "Linea" in Milan, "Hippodrome" in Corfu. At the end of the 80s it was all about rave parties
and detroit techno (Juan Atkins, RHythm is Rhythm, Inner City) Dj Frankie Bones' Freestyle, TOmmy Musto, R&S belgan Techno, The Heaven club in London with its TEchno "RAGE" nights. Clubbin in London, i got in touch with a brand new musical reality of obsessive rhythms and sounds. Next I was djing at early italian raves. The Magic Eye, Adamski, L'Ombrellaro, Quadrophenia.. i could spread that positive energy i was living in UK parties. I shared the booth with Lory D, Mauro Tannino, Paolo "Zerla" Zerletti, Luca Cucchetti, Eugenio Passalaqua. During one of our brightest moments into the italian rave scene, we got asked to play at newyork's "Building". But the magic was quickly gone, mainly cause of cheap improvised organizers doing it the dirty way; right parties in
wrong places and wrong P.A.s raving turns into the negative side of clubbing. I never embraced the idea of having pills amplify emotions till they're faked out to become what you're not, my best night would be disco and friends, most of all being able to remember and tell other about it-
In 1991 I started on producing records: first one was "DUKKHA,
nicknamed "interphone record" by Albertino for its kind of sound. DUKKHA allowed me to participate switzerland raves, and eventually reach audiences in Belgium and Holland. Later it was "TETRIS" with DJ Eugenio Passalaqua, recorded just for fun and also a pretty big hit. After a couple of years me and Giorgio decided to start producing together. Our first single's been "GET ON UP" followed by the "CORPORATION OF THREE" project with 2 different mixes. By that time we badly needed a musician to complete the alchemy - so one day, full of hair, ALessandro Moschini entered our studio. A total feeling, we liked the same music, got emotioned by same melodies, understand each other to perfection. HE got nicknamed MARVIN cause he just looked like boxer Marvin Hagler. After a few try-outs, Giorno Marvin and I finally did "TELL ME WHY".. MUSIC I LIKE: Genesis, Pink Floyd, Bee Gees, Beatles, Beach Boys,ure, Soft Machine, Henry Cow, Todd Rundgren, Egg, Pet Shop Boys, Earth Wind & Fire, Curtis Mayfield, D.Hathaway, The Doors, Traffic, Procol Horum, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Prodigy, King Crimson, E.Presley, Depeche Mode, Medusas Spite, Velvet Underground, Chicago, Blood Sweet & Tears, Frank Zappa, Ultravox, Howard Jones, Human League, Lotus Eaters, D.Bowie, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Greatful Dead, Carole King, Laura Nyro, E.L.O, Allman Brothers, Mansun. New Order, Oasis B.Eno, The Syle Coucil, Clash, Police, Emerson Lake & palmer, Prince, Hall & Oates, Commodores, Area, Banco, Pfm, F.Battiato, Kool & the Gang, Blur, Air, Massive Attack, DaFT Punk, Aphex Twin, Verve, Coldplay, Pulp, Spanduau Ballet, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, U2, Nik Kershaw, Visage, Chemical Brothers, Steely Dan, Simon & Garfunkel, Miles Davis, J.Hendrix, Keith Jarret...
ACTORS: John Belushi, Edward Norton, R.De Niro, W.Defoe, Daniel Day Lewis, Al Pacino, A.Sordi, F.Bentivoglio, L.Di Caprio, M.Freeman, J.Pesci, J.Travolta, N.Moretti, W.Allen, Toto´, Carmelo Bene, Dario Fo...
FILMS: Profondo Rosso,Taxi Driver, Arancia Meccanica, La febbre del sabato sera,Quarto Potere,Un mercoled¤ da leoni,Il posto delle fragole,Io e annie,The Blues Brothers,Chiamami aquila,I vicini di casa, Schindler's list, Shining, Blade Runner,Jules & Jim, Il corridoio della paura,
I 400 colpi, Fragole e sangue, Pulp Fiction, Bowling a colombine, Ecce bombo,Terra e liberta',Fandango,Bianca, I ragazzi della 56 strada, Hair, La vita e' bella, Gangs of New York
BOOKS: Il processo e La metamorfosi,Il nome della rosa,
l dolori del giovane Werther, Gente di dublino, Pulp , 1984, Amleto, Dalla parte di Swann ...PLACES: Haight Asbury and North Beach S.Francisco, il Grand Canyon,Covent Garden London,
Brooklyn and Viilage Manhattan,Tallin,Versailles, Australia, Amburgo di notte, India, Amazzonia,Carmel , Big Sur in California, Milos..