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(131) Ricky Montanari for m2o radio (www.m2o.it) 03 02 2013


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Track List:
1) Sello - Lost souls
2) Duke Dumont - The giver(Tiga Remix)
3) Fierce Ruling Diva - You Gotta Believe(Original 91 Atomix)
4) 8-Matt Tolfrey-Distant - Story(Original Mix)
5) Tapesh & Sidney Charles - Pot(Original Mix)
6) Frankie Dep - The tattoo i wanted(Original Mix)
7) Channel X - My 3 wishes(Nico Stojan Remix)
8) Pablo Fierro - Candytown(Original_Mix)
9) Black Magic - Let it go(Maw Dub Subb-an Remix)
10) DJ Mes Sonny Fodera - No jet lag(Original Mix)
Biography:
Riccardo Montanari born in Rimini, get passionate since his youth about the world of music. In the late seventies, when the DJ profession was not yet widespread, as defined as today (especially in Italy), was one of those who seriously contributed to the birth and development of the Italian house music. This passion for innovative music brought Montanari to spend entire afternoons listening to vinyl records, collecting them, starting from several hundreds up to his collection of 40,000 records. Montanari, thanks to its broad vision of musical styles gets a taste and knowledge of the various languages of the melodies, bringing in different influences to his work that lead to a style always new and unique. Ricky Montanari’s professional history began in the mid- eighties, debuting alongside his old friend Cirillo at Insomnia in Cattolica. Immediately after he arrives at Peter Pan in Riccione, where he began getting noticed by industry professionals. His novitiate coincides with the explosion of house music in Italy, and it is at this time that Ricky moved to London, from where he will import the most wanted and unavailable productions directly on the Italian market, making known, also to the Italian public, sounds absolutely new, with modern reinterpretations of the old funk and black music. Doing so Ricky Montanari became one of the leader of this group of professionals. In 1988 he became resident at Ethos Mama Club in Gabicce Mare, and at the same time is the absolute protagonist of the first Italian after-hour Diabolik’a. Montanari’s name is indelibly connected to the Vae Victis, a great after-hour born from the Diabolik’a experience, which became so fashionable among young people to be devoted from the British specialist magazine DJ Mag as one of the best club in the world.mAt the beginning of the nineties is one of the leaders of Echoes in Misano Adriatico, and of Matis Club in Bologna, in the same period he returns to London to forge professional relationships with many leading figures of the house scene including Kid Batchelor, with which he will divides the console of Confusion. From this time the talent of Ricky is recognized around the world, taking him to guest almost everywhere: from Los Angeles to Manchester, Tokyo, Rotterdam, Barcelona, Monaco, Brussels, Zurich, Singapore, Miami, without forgetting the famous Dance Valley in Amsterdam and the Stereo Club in Montreal, which is considered one of the best clubs in the world. Alongside the spread of his Dj-sets, Ricky became producer and remixer. All this confirms the stylistic precision that made him famous.
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