
DJ Omnidrive - Soleil Du Juillet - Jul 2008
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trocknroll
Genre: Techno
Date of Set: Jul 2008
Filesize: 110.92 MB
Total Downloads: 1
Biography of DJ Omnidrive
DJ Omnidrive has been on the electronic dance scene since 1991, after the encounter with Mutoid Waste Company, the international group of artists/mechanics famous around Europe for their installations and mutated vehicles Mad Max style. Known in Italy as 'Mutoidi', their events have opened the way to warehouse parties (abandoned spaces squatted for the duration of the party) during the mid `80s in the London of the acid house generation. London's most famous musicians and dj/producers still remember those parties, where a mix of punk, cyborg, live bands and djs were melted in an atmosphere jumped out of a comic strip.
Starting from 1993 Omnidrive and its sound system have become integrating part of the group and the long series of show/parties brought on tour from 1994 to 1997. One of the first to organize and get to the dancefloor the Italian public of rave parties in the beginning of the '90s, he has been, since their first openings, dj guest at venues like Link and Livello 57 and all the editions of the Antiprohibitionist Street Rave Parade of Bologna, which reached a public of 100,000 followers in the last edition 2004. Since the end of 2000 he has joined its energies with 5 more djs, forming h2O DJ Crew, collective with colourful musical shadings; with them, Omnidrive has intensified his braodcasting activity, starting 'TPO BOX' radio show on Fujiko Radio; in October 2002 the show moved to the frequencies of Radio K Centrale, becoming 'h2O Waves Radio'. His dj sets have been hosted few times on the web radio Orion 1 Radio (www.orion1radio.it).
In 2001 he has placed side by side musical activity to independent fashion, creating with his partner Sugar Babe the clothing label sugarbabe.org (www.sugarbabe.org); he has been taking care of the fashion shows soundtracks, for their collections at Night Wave (Rimini) in 2001, at the former church of Spasmo in Palermo, and Giardino del Guasto (Bologna); since October 2004 he has opened the label's own boutique (via S.Felice 25/d, Bologna), where he's proposing 'Djs for Sale!', in the upstairs dj booth.
Omnidrive's sound has evolved from London's acid house, moving towards German trance and English techno, typical of the mid '90s; from rave parties to clubs, the musical choice has refined with house french touch, percussive rhythms, deep sounds of Canadian and American west coast dub house. His record bag has become richer with the new electro/acid trends, big on the northeuropean dancefloors. All these infuences find space in Omnidrive sets, talented with great sensibility towards the feeling created with the public, important protagonist of his performances. During 2004 he has been guest dj at Dejavu and Double Six, important Asian clubs, situated on the island of Bali, Indonesia. In 2005 has joined the bloggers community, with the Blogshows project, online dj sets conducted as a radio show.
http://www.omnidrive.blogspot.com/