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[Press] De:Bug No.87

Die Labeldichte Zürichs dürfte wohl bald ähnliche Ausmasse wie die von Berlin oder Köln annehmen. Auf dem zweiten Release von Little Big Recordings debütiert Hardwarefetischist Daniel Rizzo mit drei wunderbaren Tracks. Warm und ananlog schäppert Antifalten angenehm melodiös, sanft kickend durch die Kalotten. Auch Creme legt einen einfühlsamen Groove an den Tag, der dennoch mit einem klar zu verstehenden Off-Beat zeigt wo es lang geht. Tech-House für Feinschmecker auch auf der B-Seite. Microglyven zunächst im rockenden Re-Edit von Dreck Labelhead Secondo, bevor Rizzo erneut seine analogen Klopfgeister zu minimalen Tanzspielereien an die Hand nimmt. Gelungen. poll *****

November 10th 2004 Reviews, LBIG002 | no comments

[Release] Rizzo - Rizzo EP (LBIG002)

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Artist: Rizzo
Release Title: «Rizzo» EP
Release #: LBIG002
Format: 12″ / 4 Track EP
Remix: Secondo
Release Date: 01.12.2004

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With Daniel Rizzo, Little Big Recordings presents a further promising newcomer from Zurich. For the last two years, he has dedicated himself to his electronic solo project Rizzo, which production is completely based on hardware such as Korg Electribe, ACCESS virus, Akai MPC 1000 and other gear.

With his playful minimal however songwriter-tech-house he is able to please our ears in a beautiful way whether as liveact, or, as this record proves, also as a producer.

Rizzo, with Secondo’s (Dreck Records/London) re-edit of the track Microglyven, gets the support of another Zuricher, Radovan Scasascia, founder of the rising cut-up-and-click label Dreck Records, which is based in London.

September 23rd 2004 Rizzo, Secondo, LBIG002, [Releases] | no comments

[Artist] Secondo

Swiss born electronic musician Radovan Scasascia, who lives and works in London and Zürich trained as an architect at the ETH in Zürich. He has worked for three years as both free lance and employed architect, before concentrating fully on electronic music, which he has been making since 1993.

He founded Dreck-Records with his long-time collaborator Laurent Benner in 2000 and has been releaseing music under the names Secondo and AM/PM.

Departing from existing popular songs of various origins, Secondo cuts his source material carefully into minute fragments in order to compose entirely new pieces of music - somehow maintainig the atmosphere of the original, but shifting away from it structurally and rhythmically.

Until now a cross-section of genres have been visited: hip hop, disco, chanson and pop music.

September 23rd 2004 Secondo, LBIG002 | no comments

Rizzo

Daniel Rizzo

First contact with music. Daniel Rizzo takes drum lessions as young kid, by the age of 16, he gets a more intense approach to percussive instruments such as conga, djembe, bongo and doumbek.

Some years later, at 21, he moves to e-bass. Dani plays bass & electronics in 4-men band (Trip Hop, Funk, Blues, Psychodelic Jazz).

For the last 2 years, and he’s got his own electronic solo project without using a computer, entirelly based on electronic hardware as Korg Electribe, Virus, MPC1000 and others, melting the rhythm, bass and instrumentals his way to soulful minimalist songwriter house.

His mates at the studio are Clos-o-Mat (Bitboutique/Zurich), Digitaline (Lausanne), Markese (Trapez/Cologne) and Uese (Shitkatapult/Berlin).

September 22nd 2004 Rizzo, LBIG002 | no comments