MADTEO
MADTEO, real name Matteo Ruzzon (November 9, 1975), born and raised in Padua, is a dj and musician, and emigrated at the age of fifteen to the United States to eventually settle in New York City.
Biography[edit]
MadTeo's first interest for music awoke listening to a cassette of Once Upon a Time in the West. He started buying music at the age of eight, after his mother took him to the local record store. The italian club scene reorganized itself in the 1980s, and many clubs started playing disco and house. He started clubbing in Italy around 1990, and on this occasion got into that typical sort of vocal- and disco-based house music, there called "underground house." He also discovered hip-hop. MadTeo's first station in the USA was Los Angeles. After arriving in N.Y.C., he worked part time for Skiz Fernando's Wordsound label in 1995, where he met Sensational. At that time, most of his music buying was rootsy, in the afro-american and latin sense. But it was also there that he started to hear about rough minimal techno projects like Pan Sonic. Later, he worked at Studio !K7, and financed his musical production djing full-time in a big Thai restaurant in Brooklyn, playing any kind of music.[1]
Music[edit]
With his music he provides a deep club happening on a solid house music fundament, also adding delayed beats known from post genres. His understanding of house is a combination of leftfield- and traditional club elements. With the series 1$treet Wax periodically compilations of old house- and disco-12"s are released, which he selects from the mass rejections of thrift record shops. Since 2016 he is directing his own music label M.A.D.T.E.O. Records, where in 2017 the second 12" Scientrysts was released together with DJ Sotofett.[2] MADTEO mainly tours in the United States and Europe, and recently in Australia and Japan, where he is presenting a number of live- and dj-sets in 2019.
"With his ideosyncratic releases on labels like Hinge Finger, Meakusma, and Morphine, dj, producer and blogger (dammhattan.tumblr.com) Madteo, living in Queens, New York, has built up an excellent reputation among lovers of excentric house music."[3]
"The breadth of influences crammed into his productions is only matched by the far-reaching range of genres which make up his selections as a DJ, melding a hazy array of hip-hop, soul, disco, house & techno influences with startling coherence."[4]
Further influences can be found in Free Jazz, Experimental music, Avant-garde music, and the Neue Musik.
Collaborations[edit]
With Sensational, Kassem Mosse, Dynamo Dreesen, DJ Sotofett (Sex Tags Mania), and Mitzi "Yakuza" Mess. He released on his own label, Säkhö, Hinge Finger, Morphine Records, Meakusma, Latency, Workshop, Wania, and others.
External links[edit]
- Profile and discography [5], Discogs
- Profile [6], Resident Advisor
- Profile Madteo – 99₵ Dreams [7], Soundcloud
- Lijah Fosl – You are NOT having a heat-induced hallucination, Madteo is releasing a new tape (2019) [8], Tiny Mix Tapes
- DJML – MADTEO. NiteMARE NOSTRUM. A sprawling, trippy ode to NYC's vanishing cultural legacy (2019) [9] "A 2+ hour epic: part DJ mix, part free-associative audio collage, launched in three parts", N.Y.C, gripper.tips
- Announcement Gene's Liquor. MADTEO (2018) [10] for NTS Radio: "Madteo has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 92 episodes and was first played on 3 November 2012."
- Review Cuable Dense Musik Of The Blah Blahs (2018) [11], deejay.de
- Will Lynch – Voracious Culturilizer (2017) [12] Feature on RA
- Steve Shaw – Queens Beat: a tangential conversation with NYC house eccentric Madteo (2013) [13], Fact Magazine
- Strumpetocracy. Madteo (2013) [14], Kompakt
- Tom Breslin – Madteo. Taking The E-Train Uptown Express (2012) [15], mntothat.com
References[edit]
- ↑ Jeremy N. Grant – mlat34: Madteo (2010) [1], cargocollective.com/madelikeatree podcasts. Retrieved september 2019.
- ↑ M.A.D.T.E.O. Records [2], Discogs
- ↑ Announcement: Finest Friday [3] at Berghain, Berlin 2013. Retrieved september 2019, translated here.
- ↑ Theo Darton-Moore – Hybrid Reinvention. In Conversation With Madteo (2014) [4], fabriclondon.com
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