Davide Squillace - Tenax Club - Florence IT - Feb 2007

Biography of Davide Squillace

The fermenting partenopean culture, particularly marked Davide's personality and the techno scene in 1995 met the passion for sound innovation of Davide. When he was 18 to broad his knowledge acquired in Naples's underground he moved to London, the social-cultural capital city of the electronic music. Here he start to produce his first work with a few machines, they were studies on instruments' functionalities and their range of use, and his first work was published by Primate and soon Audio and Contrast published some EPs. In 1999 Davide went back to Naples and he started to play now and than. For two years he stopped to produce to study sound engineering. His high-quality technical knowledge allowed his talent to fully express itself and to bring out unquestionable quality works. Design music first, then conform, produced some of them, earning excellent judgments in international reviews. Davide was not able to put up with the filters that the labels placed on his sonorities, though. He therefore decided to set up in the Sketch project, to be finally free to re-create his tastes. Three yars after he started his second label, Minisketch, for the more 'minimalist' productions. Davide Squillace is also known as erikOtanabE, an alterego born under the necessity of assembling different kind of beats, being more free on the choise of sounds and samples. his tracks are a mix of 'minimaltek' and 'glitch house', resulting in something enjoyable in a club as much as in your house while cooking some pasta. After some releases for Morris Audio, Morris City Support, Irma and other labels; he decided to start a more housey and glitchy label with some friends: the Titbit.