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DAREDEVIL

Age

• 36

Location

• Italy/Venice (Lido di Venezia)

Skills

• Bass player, producer, DJ, promoter, cigarette papers beta tester

Inspired By

• Photek, Paradox, Teebee, Klute, 4 Hero

Biography

• Bass player and co-founder of Radio Rebelde (band with a good success in the italian 90's reggae scene), Ubi Dread has also on his curriculum as past projects So Vibes (reggae & rocksteady cover band co-founded by him) and Cyberdread (trip-hop studio-based trip-hop project), and several collaborations and remixes under various monikers, plus an experience as DJ since many years.
  Even before than his first release under Daredevil moniker in 2002 (http://stage.vitaminic.it/daredevil/), anyway, his direction as DJ and producer becomes mainly the drum'n'bass sound, as the growing number of gigs in important events of the scene in Italy and Europe (Switzerland, France, Slovenia) in the last years stands to testify.
  Since 2002 start collaborating with other DJs in Italy to create drumnbass.it, that proposed itself as a crucial portal site for the whole italian drumnbass scene.
  In Winter 2003 he supervised, for Q13-Arezzo Wave, the electronic music part inside Q13 Garage Festival.
  He also conducted for years "Selecta!", weekly appointment on the drum'n'bass related sounds, on Radio Base Popolare Network.
  To underline also the past collaboration with the e-zine thevibes.net, as drumnbass and electronic music reviewer.
  As a DJ, he had chances to play in the most important italian dancehalls and sometimes even outside of Italy, near to experimenters of the english and european sound (as Paradox, Nucleus, Utah Jazz, Bad Company UK, Panacea, LXC and others).
  His selections develope a sound always oscillating between the chilled sci-fi atmospheres and the minimal harsh rhythms of the techstep sound, flowing through the warm groove of funk fueled with dub nuances.
  Lately his DJ sets are often shared together with the friend and fellow DJ Lavish.
  
  Tra le varie passate esperienze:
  1999 European Dnb Convention (Normandia, Francia)
  1999/2000 Electrodrome (musical schedule of the venue) (Marghera-Venezia)
  2001 Apocalypse 2001 festival (Bologna)
  2001 Alternative Youth Festival (Postojna, Slovenia)
  2002/2003 drumnbass.it winter season at PergolaTribe (Milano)
  2003 Lost in Nature 3 festival (Zuerich, Switzerland)
  2003/2005 Dubadelica winter searson at CSO Morion (Venezia)
  2004 Rassegna Q13-ArezzoWave (Mestre)
  2004 Lost in Nature 4 festival (Zuerich, Switzerland)
  2005 Lost in Nature 5 festival (Zuerich, Switzerland)
  2005/2007 Bass Wars (monthly venue) at ZonaBandita (Venezia)

Favourite Track

• A lot, but if a choice must be made, "Ni Ten Ichi Ryu" by Photek

Favourite Book

• William Least Heat-Moon "Blue Streets", Hanif Kureshi "Black album", Daniel Pennac "Il paradiso degli orchi", Stefano Benni "Comici spaventati guerrieri"

Favourite Movie

• "Reservoir dogs", "Smoke", "Rockers", "La haine", "Do the right thing"

Favourite Food

• kebab, zichini, pizza, spaghetti & spiritual food

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