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Andrea Gemolotto - Daniel Bortz at FAR East Film Festival Udine at Minnamoro
Date / Saturday, 21 April 2012
Time / 23.00 - 4.00
Venue / Minnamoro  / Udine, ITALIA
Cost / € 10 - € 14

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DANIEL BORTZ
Born 1981, lives and produced in Augsburg.

His musical influences are characterized by the complete lack of fear of contact, ranging from punk and new wave (Stranglers / Joy Division) to pop (Prince / Peter Gabriel) and classic techno (Dave Angel / Daniel Bell), to local folk music (Biermösl Blosn ). His DJ sets regularly leave enthusiastic audience that especially appreciates his playful versatility and his keen sense of the mood among his very specific gig.

As a DJ, Daniel was the first time in 1995 on local events in Freising. In the following years, he recorded, among other things The Analog Digital Festival / Munich (live), Club Achter Mai / Berlin, the City Jazz Festival / Brunswick, U60311/Frankfurt, kerosene / Augsburg and regularly several clubs in and outside Germany. Since 2007 he has been resident DJ at the Rote Sonne in Munich. Moreover, he invites a monthly national and international DJ guests on his own highly successful series of events at the Black Sheep (Forza Electronica) in Augsburg.

1995 was also the starting year for Daniel as a producer. After a first remix for Media Records in 2005, he published regularly on different labels, including his own imprint Pastamusik. In 2011 he became a member of the SUOL family through his highly acclaimed "The One"-EP.

ANDREA GEMOLOTTO
Andrea Gemolotto begins his approach to the world of music since childhood.
At a young age he enrolled at the Conservatory as a piano student.
In the late 70's thanks to first advent of local radio in Italy discovers the fascinating power of disco, soul, funk, Afro greatly expand his musical horizons and lead to the opening of a small record store import in his hometown Udine located un the north east of Italy.
He knows some local DJs and within a couple of years is naturally introduced into the world of clubbing.
In this context, he manages to stand out for good music selection and good technique that allows him to easily find employment in various clubs in his area.
In the early 80'disco and funk from overseas began to give way to new pop phenomena throughout Europe and began to mingle with the electronic giving rise to the new
wave music, electropop, and the italo disco.
A fair number of DJs supported mostly by professional musicians compete in such productions.
Attracted by what he tries and succeeds in obtaining a loan to invest in opening a recording studio (Palace Recording Studio), takes an engineer with experience from another well known firm specializing in dance productions and begins to learn the techniques of production primarily using analog instrumentation and combining the musical experience obtained during the years of study at the conservatory.
This allows him to realize in the late 80's his first musical productions for the label Expanded Music of Bologna.
His style is consistent with a musical genre arrived from the United States called House Music that the record company decided to concentrate on the sublabel DFC (Dance Floor Corporation).
Despite the time very busy in the studio he does not abandon his work as a DJ in clubs.
His passion for turntabilism is getting so high that in 1988 he joined the DMC contest, an international competition of turntablism and the following year he represented Italy at the World Championships at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
At the same time he took part in the production of one of the most important classics in the history of the house produced in Italy "Sueno latino" .
Then begins to collaborate with "Radio Italia Network" a major national radio specialized in the dissemination of club music performing various djset.
His fame spreads throughout the country and within a couple of years he gets fixed engagements by some of the most prestigious clubs in Italy like Movida,Cocoricò,Ranch,La Scala,Area City,Alter Ego,Mazoom.
At Movida meets two other colleagues Leo Mas and Fabrice and together they founded the project, Big Brothers Productions that will dominate the music scene in clubs around Northern Italy for almost a decade between gigs in clubs, productions and remixes.
In 2002 he leaves the club temporary to produce a pop project that to date has not yet been published
Over the past 20 years has also played abroad on several occasions in the clubs like the Roxy(Amsterdam), Ministry of Sound(London), Cafe de Anvers(Antwerp),Shelter(New York), also in Scotland, Spain, Croatia, Switzerland, Austria and built about 50 productions and remixes for various national and international labels.





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