Umberto Santini aka u5aint born in Italy, father was a drummer and always supported him musically; studied clarinet and later on piano to grade 3 conservatory. Grew up on classic rock (Jimi Hendrix, Genesis, Pink Floyd to mention a few), the 80s inevitably were a big influence: from punk, post punk new wave, heavy metal to funk and disco. HIs father's passion for jazz also left a big imprint, from classic be-bop (Charlie Parker, Miles Davies, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Art Blackey, Clifford Brown) through cool jazz era (Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, Stan Gets, G. Mulligan) to contemporary jazz, jazz/rock and fusion (Early Steps Ahead, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jaco Pastorius) looking up to pianist like Keith Jarrett, Check Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jan Hammer. From mid to late 80s his passion for electronic music drove him to explore more more the club scene in Italy,  eventually been hit like a tone of bricks by the all new Acid house and the British rave culture, which at the time in Italy translated into "Discoteca" such as Kama Kama, Insomnia in Tuscany, Cocorico' in Riccione Emilia Romagna with the additional after parties the so called After Hours (mezzanotte/mezzogiorno), pretty much the Italian version of British raves such as Vaei Victis and Club de 99. Yes, the heart of dance electronic club music was very much in centre Italy but expanded quickly and virally everywhere. 
Through the 90s, whilst playing regularly session keyboard in his band, he  went on a tour with Italian song writer and former front man of notorious early 80s new wave band Moda, Andrea Chimenti, touring with the likes of C.S.I., also performing at the notorious Italian music festival Sonoria, Milan: during these years, his music taste expanded, branching in different directions and genres. His interest for electronic music grew massively during the club years within the different shades of house (progressive, trance, techno); with Blade from Jestofunk, they ran regular night events called Groove People where he promoted and performed as animator and percussionist. 
Everything was about to change at the turn of the millennium when u5aint moved to the UK permanently in March 2000: he spent the following 5 years roaming around all independent record shops (and non) in London looking for promo records for a record shop in Florence, corresponding the music material for lots of music in return! It was at this time when his journey through digital music production began: in 2003 when on honeymoon on the Mexican Mayan Riviera, he caught up with his Blade from Jestofunk in Playa del Carmen, and also met Enrico Scoccia: our shared passion for music worked as a magnet and as soon as we were back in London where Rick was coincidentally based too, started to join forces. It became evident that it was meant to be when he introduced me to the biggest source of knowledge, music production and sound engineering, who became not only my music partner but one of his lifetime closest friend: Daniele Principato. Nephew of the Italian club scene legend Franco Principato aka Franchino, he was at the centre of some of biggest tracks released in late 90s on the Italian club scene: Dani had lived in London for a few years before Umberto moved permanently there, that's where he developed and owned his production skills. Dani is an incredible guitarist as well, u5aint met him first at the end of 2003 at Rick's place in Clapham Junction, where he was visiting and they started collaborating immediately, working on his Apple G3 laptop, displaying amazing skills. By that time u5aint was living in South London and with Dani's help, he had built a home studio set up around a an Apple Mac G4 computer at his base in Forest Hill, London, where they really started to lay down the tunes.
In January 2004, Dani invited Umberto to visit him in his studio on the Appennino Tosco Emiliano where he was based: this was the start of a lifetime collaboration. It was such an impressive set up, a state-of-the-art studio with both control and live room and an incredible amount of equipment collected over a lifetime of music making. At the end their first session, they produced in the range of dozen tracks, some of which were released digitally and physically later on under Science Gap; one particular track though attracted the attention of a legendary London based label, Plastic Fantastic Records. And in 2005 Chain Reaction orig. And tribal mix was released on double sided vinyl under the alias Longleeve Fish... This happened during the time Dan moved back to London where he stayed for a year: together with Rick, they hired a recording suite at the infamous Atomik Studio (Bermondsey) where many notorious bands rehearsed and developed their sound. During this tine we produced 2 albums, collaborating with a number of vocalists, singers and musicians including Catherine T. Jones aka Cat, P. Double, Sunny Black Mendosa and many others. One of the DJs they kept on collaborating was Bes aka Dj Wolf, with whom they produced a few additional tracks later released digitally under Science Gap. 
In March 2006, he moved out of London to Chelmsford, Essex - where he is still currently based - and immediately started converting the garage into a recording studios after he went back to Italy for more recording commitments, Dan came visiting me in 2007, working in my studio producing a few new tunes which were later released under Science Gap.
With Dani, it wasn't only electronic music, but also live music and in 2009 we recorded and released an album if live experimental totally improvised music under a project called Soulclash Combo Orchestra.
By the turn of the decade, when digital downloading got more and more popular, things changed dramatically and an enormous influx of people making music invaded the scene, changing the music industry for ever.
It was between 2009 and 2011, he hooked back up with his long date friend and collaborator DJ Blade from Jestofunk, introducing him to Dani: they released 2 new EPs under Science Gap / Blade from Jestofunk and 2 Science Gap albums on Blade's digital label Playa Music and Frequncia 1310.

Life got in the way and for so many years and u5aint live music activities were limited for sometime... 

Until 2024 , Boomtown festival!

The energy was tangible, infectious and reinvigorating... and clearly reignited the music making sparkle! 

Since then, his home studio was re-wired and powered back on with the addition of a DDJ1000, Ableton Live, 6Gb NAS drive and...

CLAVIA NORD LEAD 2X!!!

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