JUAN MORETTI

Travellers welcome, a new single ep series by Juan Moretti, former bass player and arranger of 3IO (HellYeah! Records) and co-founder of house-tech duo Things Happen (Strictly Groove Records, Hell Yeah! Records)

Landed (preview)

This track is from the album Departure Lounge and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3io2

Departure lounge

This track is from the album Blindfold and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3io4

Hide & Seek

nervous jazzy/jungle track by Electricity

Stefano Raffaelli | el.piano, synths
Juan Moretti | bass, sampler, machines
Stefano Menato | saxophone

artwork: Grethe Frenez


Electricity - JJJ

Lingerie "Space Ranger Remix"

CALIBRATION

BLACK SOLSTICE

Red Crocodile - John Tejada RMX

Amigdala

Amigdala (Things Happen Remix)

Hell Yeah’s next project is to revisit a collection of jazz covers of dance classics. Back To New Roots (Serotonin Fuelled Jazz Covers) was first released in 2011 by 3iO, a band lead by double bassist Manuel Moretti and including Richard Maggioni on piano and Matteo Giordani on drums. 
 
This album, however, which originally stated as a joke to challenge the musicians to do something different and flip dance, alternative and chill out hits from Fat Boy Slim, Groove Armada, Chemical Brothers, Royskopp, Underworld, Spiller and DJ Shadow into new forms, proves what playing skills the group had. 
 
Now presented on special 180g vinyl and with magical art from Andrea Amaducci for the first time, Back To New Roots (Serotonin Fuelled Jazz Covers) has already got support from the likes of Giles Peterson, Chris Coco and Jon Sa Trinxa. ‘Eple’ has also already proved a big download hit, so this release pays dues to some talented musicians who embraced a crazy idea.
 
Opener ‘Eple’ is all fat bass and wandering keys and oozes an inimitable jazz-funk. ‘Les Nuits’ is a more tender, late night track of sombre chords, and ‘Soul Vibration’ becomes a romantic downtempo classic. ‘Organ Donor’ retains the darkness of the classic original but with a new found jazz energy, and ‘Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) is a nimble, on your toes gem. ‘Right Here, Right Now’ is flipped into a slowed down and plaintive piece, ‘Born Slippy’ lifts the energy levels with splashes of cymbals and superb live drums and ‘Always’ closes on a tender note with dusty snares and tangs of bass. 
 
A new side project from Manuel Moretti may well follow on Hell yeah in the near future, but for now this collection provides plenty of magical moments for a different kind of dance floor.

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3iO - Back to New Roots (Serotonin Fuelled Jazz Covers) SNIPPETS

5th episode of Robotnick's Archives' series.
"Funky Skunky" is a track originally composed in 1996
but completely re-made a few monthes ago. . The original track, made
with MIDI system and virtual synths, was based on a vocal sample taken
from one of the first vynil collections of acappella voices but it sounded
weak and not convincing enough. Therefore it was abandoned and slept
on a forgotten CD-Rom for about 16 years. Robotnick, using analog
synths and triggers, brings it back to life with the energy it deserves. 122 bpm
"Infinite Solitude" is a track that was originally composed
in 2001 for "Oh no ..Robotnick" but then discarded because deemed
to sound too melancholic. In this case too, the recent analog re-writing
gives the track a vintage flavour and rightly puts it back into the
authour's original music process. 128 bpm
"It was like a dream" is more recent, dating back to 2008
but it sounds as if it came out of one of Robotnick's early 80s tapes,
when the author insisted in working out sounds and atmospheres
that would distinguish his style from the music produced in those
days. 124 bpm Finally there are 2 remixes of "Can you hear me?" , a
track released in Archives 2 , signed by young producers from the
"New Disco" scene : "Things happen" and "The Robot Scientists"
present the continuity of a sound that comes from far away but is still
capable of attracting and involving the new generations.
THINGS HAPPEN
The 21th century's freshest trip into the wild world of
electronic music, from magnetic disco to tech-house.
Reporting from the borderline, a new fragrant way of
feeling music without forgetting "the" old school sound.
This all-italian trio put together their personal musical
experience into unique and special atmospheres
mixing bright synthetic sounds and deep basses with pure
instrumental parts.
THE ROBOT SCIENTISTS
The Robot Scientists are Markus Schneider, Stefan
Maurer, Markus "Fred" Scholl, Eric Schemer and Oliver
Schneider.
Label: Space Factory / Emerald & Doreen.
Emerald & Doreen (Saarbrücken/Germany) features and
releases outstanding music from a variety of international
artists influenced by Krautrock, Funk, Synth Pop, New
Wave and Italo Disco


Alexander Robotnick - Can You Hear Me (Things Happen rmx)

Musician, producer, composer, born 20th october 1975 in Buenos Aires, now based in North Italy. Former bass player and arranger of 3IO (HellYeah! Records) and co-founder of house-tech duo Things Happen (Strictly Groove Records, Hell Yeah! Records)

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