Extra

by Roccan on December 26, 2009 in Classics Tagged , ,

Hey, Happy XMas everyone. Just moved out of Milan. I am in Lecce at my parents, relocating all my gear and record collection. The funniest side of this really boring process is finding old records and give em a listen after a lot of time. Lots of them suck, some others rock better than before. Jelly Tones from Ken Ishii is probably the first electronic record I’ve ever heard, it happened in 1998 but the record is actually from 1995. “Extra” is the opening track of this album and sounds to me as the most futuristic music ever even if it’s from 15 years ago.. and yes, probably I am posting this because I am still down with Japan so bad. I remember there was a misunderstanding about the cover of Jelly Tones - I was obsessed with cartoon/comic Akira so when I saw the record sleeve I was SURE that it was going to be the Akira’s soundtrack. It’s not. It’s just another masterpiece coming from there. NOTE: This video is pretty much violent, hope you don’t care.

Keep The Secret

by Roccan on December 14, 2009 in News Tagged , ,

Scion A/V Video Project Trailer from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

At 0:18 you can see a short preview of my next single’s videoclip “Babylon”. It’s gonna be out soon on Fool’s Gold Records, more news about in the next days!

Arigatou

by Roccan on December 11, 2009 in Tour Tales Tagged , , , , ,
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Tokyo

Finally a photo report about my Japanese tour. There are not enough words to explain how exciting it was. Have a look! Continue reading →

Emotion Electric

by Roccan on December 1, 2009 in Classics Tagged

Here we go with some classics. I knew A Guy Called Gerald because of his massive acid hit Voodoo Ray. I randomly found the “Emotion Electric” 12″ in a second hand market in Bologna and never expected to like it so much. I thought it was just a b-side of something else.. It actually is an excerpt of his live (!) show at John Peel Sessions in 1989. Well, right now it’s winter time so I guess these warm pads and mellow melodies can heat up your house a lil more. Spacey ambient emo house?

Fool’s Gold Euro Tour

by Roccan on November 24, 2009 in Events

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Japan!

by Roccan on November 11, 2009 in Events
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Flyer by Turbokrapfen

A manga dream comes true - so true I have a comic face on the flyer.

Bite Your Lips

by Roccan on November 3, 2009 in Jamz
Pic By Felicia Honkasalo

Pic By Felicia Honkasalo

This is a prelisten of the remix I did for Blatta & Inesha. You know them cause we released a whole EP together last spring on Hell Yeah Records. They rock from Sicily and sound like a volcano. Check out my remix on Soundcloud. Its gonna be released in few weeks on La Valigetta Records along with remixes from NT89 and Deathface. Seriously, lots of good friends involved into this release.

Sbombers

by Roccan on October 31, 2009 in Jamz
pic by Stephen Shore

Pic by Stephen Shore

Hey, here we go with goodies. Its a track I did a while ago with my friends Crookers and lots of people is asking about it, and since we are good boys, we decided to share it on web. Get it now, it’s hot stuff!

Congorock & Crookers - Sbombers

An Australian Trip

by Roccan on October 27, 2009 in Tour Tales Tagged , ,
Picture courtesy of Angelo Milano and La Quiete

Picture courtesy of Angelo Milano and La Quiete

Just came back from the Australian tour. I woke up few hours ago in my milanese bed like it was breakfast time, but it was actually fn midnight. Instead of eggrolls I got some nice meatrolls Gaia cooked for me, thank you for that! Australia was a blast. I am really thankful to all the people I’ve met on the road; not only all the cities and places were great but I was surrounded by extremely nice people since the real beginning to the real end.

First of all, I flied on Emirates to Dubai. Dubai airport is ridicolously big, a real city. They spend money like crazy, there. As every big city in the world where people spend money like crazy I found this

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$ Dubai Airport $

The first show was in Perth, the biggest city in West Australia. A really sunny relaxing and laiback place. I took a train from Fremantle to the city to see the Art Gallery Of Western Australia, where nowadays you can find an amazing exhibition of Indigenous Art Awards

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Ricardo Idagi / Malo Mask

And some really psyched out aerial photography from Richard Woldendorp. One of few times photography looks like paintings

Richard Woldendorp / Wheatfield

Richard Woldendorp / Wheatfield

I gave a look also to the Western Australian Museum because as you probably already now I am down for mummified animals

Snake Vs Rat

Snake Vs Rat

and I am also down for anything related to anthropology

Old Skool Boomerangz

Old Skool Boomerangz

Then I headed to Sydney for a show at Tank (big club, big party) and four days off. I found out Deathface and Rob Threezy were in town too. We planned lots of things (“we should do a track together!”) and check out everything possibile in this beatiful city, but we actually spent the whole time eating asian food and going for turistic rounds.

Mr Dugong, Deathface, Me, Rob Threezy, a random fan

Mr Dugong, Deathface, Me, Rob Threezy, a random fan

The Aquarium was insane

Then I lost my camera. I went to Adelaide where I had probably the best show of the tour. You know why? Because I miss my ol punk days when I was surrounded by the crowd while playing instead of playing on a 20 feet tall booth!

8Bit Kidz Party In Adelaide

8Bit Kidz Party In Adelaide

I was kind of wasted and sick during the last days as I didnt sleep at all, but it was good meeting european friends Francesca and Anne in Brisbane and the best australian restauraunts in Melbourne. I hate going for italian food while I am touring but Sarti Restauraunt made me change my idea. Thank you John Curtin for bringin me there and sorry if I looked like a jetlagged zombie.

I know what you are gonna say. Any kangaroo pictures? - No, I am sorry.