And the winners are…

The winners of the Giardini di Mirò video & remix contest are:

Mickey eats plastic (remix) and Lorenzo Sportiello (video)

Congratulations!

Remixes and videos from the flux.tv contest

More than 100 remixes were submitted to the Giardini di Mirò remix contest on flux.tv! Go to this website, type “gdm” in the search field and listen to dozens of variations of “Broken By”.

There are also about 20 videos for the same song, which you can check out here (again, search for “gdm”).

(No) new Nitrada record (yet)

I have to say I had the plan to release a new record in 2006 – which will definitely not happen. I started some songs, sketches and even an auspicious cooperation. I already played some new material live here and there, but unfortunately I don’t have any preview to show yet.

Actually, the record and the writing/finishing of new songs has been delayed by

1. too many exciting and time consuming visual design projects during the past few months and
2. (the better excuse) by the birth of my daughter Tilda Marie

It’s so exciting and I’m spending most of my time with her, listening to a lot of music together, humming, singing and dancing, talking about this and that and basically getting inspired to continue with writing some more music again soon.

Back from Japan

Zucchini Drive and Nuccini! are back from their trip to Japan. Here’s a little report from Tom of Zucchini Drive.

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Nuccini! interview on rockit.it

Read it here (in italian).

Best Italian debut album

And the winner is: Tellaro “Setback On The Right Track”. Congratulations!

What is/are ______ doing?

Here’s an overview of what our artists are working on:

Noah23 has recorded a new album (”Crab Nebula”) with producer MadadaM. It’s scheduled for a release in spring 2007. He’s also planning to release some records together with other emcees next year. Noah is also guesting on Vert’s new album “Some Beans & An Octopus”, which is out now on Sonig.

Nitrada has some new tracks buried in his laptop, but it might take a while until you’ll all have the pleasure to listen to it. No concrete plans yet for a new release, sorry.
If you live in Hamburg, you’ll have the chance to see one of Nitrada’s rare live/dj sets tonight at Club 73 (Schulterblatt 73).

Giardini di Mirò have finished the recordings for their new album “Dividing Opinions”, out in spring 2007. You can already download a song for free on flux.tv. And if you feel creative, check out the video/remix contest (english version soon). A European tour is planned for next year.

Luca di Mira aka Pillow is also writing new songs, but it’s far too early to tell when there will be a new record.

His band colleague Jukka Reverberi has made some drones/noise under the moniker “Die Stadt der Romantische Punk”. To order his new CD “xxxpired love” just write an email to Jukka.

Corrado Nuccini is learning some conversational Japanese to be prepared for his upcoming tour (see posting below). European shows are planned, but not yet confirmed. He’s also producing remixes and beats like a madman.

Tellaro, now a duo, are also working on new songs. It’s pretty different from their previous recordings, but then again it’s still very much Tellaro. We’ve been definitely surprised. But in a damn good way.

Amanda Rogers was busy in the last months with her band Jupiter Sunrise, but she told us that new solo material is in the works. Hooray!

Zucchini Drive have already recorded some demos for a new album and plan to go to a studio soon. Kaeoflux from Pilot Balloon is producing most of the tracks. Together with Corrado Nuccini, Zucchini Drive will play four Japan shows in November (see posting below).

That’s all we know for now. Check back for more updates.

Zucchini Drive and Nuccini! in Japan, Tour CD

Japanese friends, listen up! Zucchini Drive and Corrado Nuccini are the first 2nd rec artists to visit your country:

23.11.06 JAP - Osaka, Sansui
24.11.06 JAP - Kobe, Otaya
25.11.06 JAP - Tokyo, Bullet’s
26.11.06 JAP - Tokyo, Shibuya O-nest

Zucchini Drive preparped a tour CD for their Nippon trip. It contains 10 tracks and 6 videoclips:

- 4 remix/mashups by artists like Krazy Baldhead (edbanger), Nitrada (2nd rec), tepr (abstrackt keal agram) and ourselves.
- 6 livesongs containing bootlegs from Kraftwerk, Eddie Murphy & Rick James, Justice, Tomahawk, Mark Morisson and Trick Daddy.
- 6 videos (small format) for ipod and quicktime-users by raccou, nomad+tina, kimme, zucchini drive, loose and dan&the idiot.

You can buy those CDs at their shows or order them from the Shadowanimals online shop.

Giardini di Mirò video & remix contest

Flux.tv, a new community platform by MTV, lets you not only download a brandnew song from the upcoming Giardini di Mirò album “Dividing Opinions”, but gives you also the chance to win some prices if you remix this song or shoot a videoclip for it. What are you waiting for?

New address

We moved our office. Our new address is:

2nd rec
Stresemannstr. 173
22769 Hamburg
Germany

Phone/fax numbers stay the same but they won’t work until the end of the week.

Now back to unpacking…