Описание
Mauro PicottoNaam: Mauro Picotto
Geboorteplaats: Italie
Website: http://www.myspace.com/mauropicotto
Biografie
Mauro Picotto is the first Italian DJ ever to create a successful event known across the globe. He has been the first and only Italian featured amongst the world's top ten DJs. Meganite is electronic music lifestyle at 360 degrees. It is a musical journey that touches all cultures and trends in all nations. Beautiful electronic music, that knows how to evolve creating an atmosphere enjoyed by clubbers around the world. Tens of thousands of people from all nationalities have experienced Meganite events, thanks to the many residencies held by Mauro Picotto and Meganite. Besides the acclaimed Ibiza residency, Mauro and Meganite hold events in Miami, London, New York and many more cities in Europe, Asia, Australia and America. On February 18th 2006, during the Olympic Night in Turin, over 30,000 people joined the event taking place at the city's university hall. The event at 'Palazzo Nuovo' was organised in partnership with the regional and local guvernment. In April, house master Danny Tenaglia invited Mauro Picotto at Crobar in New York City for an event that made history. The new Meganite summer event for 2007 will return to Ibiza, where Mauro Picotto, alongside his superstar guest DJs, will deliver another unforgettable season.
Born in a small Italian town near Turin, Picotto was raised in a family of stonemasons and dancers. His father ran a masons yard called CRW, a name Mauro would later use as a moniker for one of his biggest records.
Picotto longed to start making his own productions, but felt that to be successful he must first become a DJ and learn exactly what people wanted to hear in a record. After winning the Walky Cup competition on national TV, an event for the top DMC djs in Italy, a chance meeting with Daniele Davoli, there to promote his Black Box single Ride On Time, led Picotto to really throw himself into music production. His first track We Gonna Get, produced under the name RAF, became a Top Twenty across much of Europe and Picotto had well and truly caught the bug.
Another RAF release followed, alongside remixes and co-writing credits for the likes of Club House, Capella and the 49ERS. Soon the time was right to release a track under his own name and the resulting record, Bakerloo Symphony, ended up being Number 1 in Italy for eight weeks. Also in 1996 Mauro became a partner in Media Records alongside Gianfranco Bortolotti.
1998 saw him make his bid for UK stardom, with the release of the inescapable Gatecrasher anthem Lizard a record that, for many, summed up the hegemony of the emerging trance sound. The track ended up being a Top 30 hit and was followed by two further instalments in the reptilian trilogy Iguana and Komodo. Komodo notched Picotto another chart hit, entering at Number 11, as well as a performance on Top Of The Pops. Mauro was the first DJ to ever play live on the show.
Further Top Tens followed, including I Feel Love, under the moniker CRW and Communication, recorded alongside his friend and fellow countryman Mario Piu. The track sampled a mobile phone ring tone and became an omnipresent summer anthem. Furthermore it was Picottos remix which propelled Yorks Balearic trancer On The Beach to Number 1 when it was selected by the record company to be used as the radio edit.
Two artist albums, The Double Album and The Others, came next, in 2000 and 2002 respectively, as well as remixes and productions for the likes Freddie Mercury, Jimmy Sommerville, Pet Shop Boys and U2. Unfortunately it didnt take long for other producers to start to cash in on the Picotto sound and soon everybody was apeing his tough, uncompromising style. Having paid his dues, and notching up a string of hits, it was time for Picottos metamorphosis from trance star to techno superhero to begin.
I used to play 6-hr sets at Gatecras
