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Milanese (Warp, Arcola)
Milanese burst onto the scene in 2004 with his debut single, Vanilla Monkey on Warp offshoot label, Arcola and a follow up longplayer, '1 Up' on the mighty Warp Records in the same year. It's hard to pin his style down. He personally describes his music as a mashup of jungle/garage/ragga/electro/techno, twisted robot music that sounds like a computer game gone horribly wrong but this description belies the fierce, raw agression of his rumbling beats and the sinister emotional tone and sophisticated panache of his production.
The native Londoner, now based in Birmingham (where he lives next door to label mate Chris Clark), is also a gifted musician, with particular proficiency in piano (with 13 years of study under his belt) and trombone, and has now progressed to making his own unique instruments. , His true forte however, lies with fusing elements of electro-acoustic music with mad beats and bass. With a total emphasis on the bass! Milanese spent his university days studying electronic music (although this may have simply constituted a lot of raving) and was also a regular Dj fixture at squatter parties in the 90's.
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