Touane - Action Painting
Release Date: 23rd July 2007
Label: Trenton Records
A great musical journey into beautiful, soft and deep sounds. This is action painting: our summer release by Touane aka Marco Tonni.
Touane is been quite active in 2006/2007 with a maxi on Trenton (Trenton 014 – "gum EP" / July 2006) several EP’s and 1 album called “Figura” (just released in June 2007) on Stewart Walker’s imprint Persona Records.
This is the 3rd release of the prolific Italian producer and friend on Trenton Records. When would be a better time for us to unleash his stylish music than in the hot and sweaty month of July?
A very spacey first side with 2 tracks called “corvo molto” and “towards narita”. Both tracks will give you this feeling of “walking on air” and even though the arrangements are quite complex the music flows and the grooves keep on building up. The 45 B-side is a bit more up-tempo with tougher beats and proper “down the earth” bass lines. Once again there it is, an amazing record from Touane, one of the most inspired electronic artists of the past 2 years.
Touane Biography
Touane is Marco Tonni, born in 1979 in Rimini, a tourist-choked seaside in the north of Italy. After playing bass and guitar in rock bands during his youth, he began to experiment with electronic music at 17, creating music to reconfigure the incomplete memories of his favourite songs into a new and signature sound. He spent his university years in the more stimulating town of Bologna. Here, Marco started collaborating with other musicians with whom he achieved small but important successes in the city, focusing on DJing and performing live at the famous Link club as well as exchanging ideas and opinions about software, production techniques not to mention their love for music.
During his final two years in Bologna, he worked to spread a fresh kind of do-it-yourself musical aesthetic for non-musicians. Marco and his colleagues organized a series of events and parties which culminated at the end of April 2004, in the Homework Festival, which showcased the panorama of the young and emerging computer artists and musicians in that isolated but open minded college town. As he continued building relationships and friendships with artists of the northern European minimal music scene, he finally decided to move to Berlin, Germany in 2004. , He also collaborates with Stewart Walker at Persona Records and with Stewart's help and guidance, he has managed to develop and distinguish his own sound. 2005 was the year of his debut 12” “Afasia”, with the release of his first singles which were charted by Djs such as Troy Pierce, Falko Brocksieper, Jeremy Caulfield and Steve Bug. He also released, “Awake,” who got him good attention from magazines and music lovers all over Europe. He started touring Europe, playing cities such as Madrid, Moscow, and Rome, while simultaneously refining his studio and his live show performance ceaselessly. If this first year of productions marked a strong but still discrete entrance into the european music scene, the year 2006 seen the definitive recognization of his talents: at first with his top-charting single Bassic , which got licensed for the Fabric Live Cd mixed by Tiefschwarz and for the U.S. magazine XLR8R Berlin Issue Compilation, then with more releases on Dumb-Unit, Trenton, Regular, and finally on Persona with two more singles. Spree Baptism and Prosa have been suggesting clearly the path he wanted to follow, taking his sound signature production techniques far from genre categorization and a step above the sometimes excessive monotony of certain minimal techno.
Over the recent months he's kept touring and adding new cities to his CV including Tokio and Paris, Bruxelles and Naples, making himself a name thanks to the success and the warmth of his live performances, while still keeping the studio side at the centre of his career. The near future will see Marco releasing remixes for EinmalEins, Minisketch and Curle Recordings, and his own singles on Persona and LanMuzic, as well as a groundbreaking new album to be out later this spring, Figura.
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