My Awesome Mixtape

Bio:

Day After Day - digital single

Artwork by Martina Merlini

Spring is here at last! Skirts get shorter, hairdos change, flowers are in bloom. And the trees are just about to bear fruit.
And so is our own little tree, the one we planted six months ago.

The six months it took for the village to actually become a town, although we’re not yet tired of building.

“How Could a Village Turn Into a Town” introduced us to the melancholy beauty of the fall in the European continent. Stages were our homes, the windows on the van our eyes on the world.
This last winter flashed by us while we were travelling up and down Italy and beyond.
We jumped, danced and sweated with you. We played. We shape-shifted, experimented, tore down the same barriers we had put up ourselves. And with each step we knew we had you by our side.
You, who helped us with the My Awesome Mixtees project (30 limited edition T-shirts, created by 30 European designers), who sent in your comic strips, who supported us among the buildings in the Hearts to Lend video and filled the venues we played.
You deserves our wholehearted thanks and a world of gratitude.

This is why we decided to build and give you a whole new section of the My Awesome Mixtape town.
A two-track digital single, previously unreleased, written, played, produced and recorded entirely by us.
A cover. A song we recorded to remind ourselves of when we were little, silly and thoughtless.

Take this for what it is: a gift (the price of download, as the sages said, is up to you) and also a snapshot of what My Awesome Mixtape are at this exact moment in time.
A band on the run.

The digital single is also an excuse to announce the new European tour, which starting April will take us back to our beloved Germany and beyond, and a new EP – analogic, so to speak, this time – containing the two new tracks along with remixed tracks from “How Could a Village Turn into a Town”, made by musicians and DJs outside our habitual sphere of reference, and a few new special versions.
A way to prolong the life of an album we have loved and still love very much, and which in September 2010 will be re-released in France, Principality of Monaco, Andorra, Benelux and… who knows where else?

In the meantime, let’s enjoy the spring and wait for the summer.
Together again. On stage again.

My Awesome Mixtape – Day After Day (Digital Single)
Day After Day
All That She Wants (Ace Of Base)

TOUR

26/03/2010 Conegliano (TV) Zion
27/03/2010 Codroipo (UD) Edera
01/04/2010 Lyon [FR] TBA
02/04/2010 Metz [FR] L’Emile Vache
03/04/2010 Konstanz [DE] Kulturladen
04/04/2010 Colmar [FR] Le Grillen
05/04/2010 Dison [BE] Centre Culturel de Dison
06/04/2010 Dusseldorf [DE] Pretty Vacant
07/04/2010 Paris [FR] Le Scopitone
08/04/2010 Offenbach [DE] Hafen 2 09/04/2010 Bremen [DE] Tower
10/04/2010 Münster [DE] Amp
12/04/2010 Berlin [DE] Magnet
13/04/2010 Hamburg [DE] Fundbureau
14/04/2010 Aachen [DE] Musikbunker
15/04/2010 Druckluft [DE] Oberhausen
16/04/2010 Dresden [DE] Ostpol
17/04/2010 Chemnitz DE] Atomino
07/05/2010 St. Pantaleon St. Pantaleon kulturwerk
23/04/2010 Ferrara Zuni
24/04/2010 Brescia Vinile 45
15/05/2010 Castiglione del Lago (PG) La Darsena

Day After Day - Official Video!

Hearts To Lend - Official Video!

Day After Day - Audio Graffiti Contest: Fabio Bonetti

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11/09: My Awesome Mixtape's brand new album "HOW COULD A VILLAGE TURN INTO A TOWN" in stores!

My Awesome Mixtape’s story starts, like that of many other bands, in their bedroom.

That’s where, at the tail end of 2006, Maolo, Checco and Bebo – three spritely Bolognese regaz – half-jokingly start making music. Mixing and matching their favourite styles, they end up generating an original mix of indie rock, hip hop and electronica, the kind you cannot fail to dance to.

In the space of a few months, the band’s first songs become the talk of the town, and soon enough they are hailed everywhere as Italy’s next big thing. At that point, leaving the bedroom to go out and play with the big kids is almost mandatory. After a few changes in line-up and solo experiments, My Awesome Mixtape become a fivesome. Their first album, titled "My Lonely and Sad Waterloo", is published as a co-production between Italian labels My Honey Records and I dischi dell'amico immaginario, on September 8th 2007.

Upon the album’s release, the band has already played in half the country’s live venues, and tries successfully to go abroad and export their music in the rest of Europe.
At the end of 2008, MAM’s “Neverending Tour” will have lined up a smashing 158 live gigs, and gained the band an award as Best Live Band of the season at the annual Meeting of Independent Labels in Faenza.

That’s not the end of it. MAM’s participation in a compilation sponsored by Mercedes-Benz, the special guest appearance in the ensemble video for La nuova musica italiana by Italian hardcore sensations Linea77, and the re-release of “My Lonely And Sad Waterloo” in Germany through Rewika Records, and in Japan through P-Vine Records, start paving the way for a new album, scheduled for release in the fall of 2009.


“How Could a Village Turn Into a Town” is released in Italy through 42 Records (also home of Gatto Ciliegia Contro Il Grande Freddo, Kobenhavn Store and Fake P) and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland through Rewika Records. Recorded by Bruno Germano of Settlefish, the album marks a new progression in My Awesome Mixtape’s artistic growth. Composed, arranged and played as a team effort, “How Could a Village Turn Into a Town” matches its predecessor’s freshness with a newfound maturity and awareness in handling and shaping sound.

The album was preceded in May 2009 by the “Other Houses” EP, issued by 42 Records in double format, digital and coloured cassette tape (for a total of 168 numbered copies). The EP was accompanied by two live videos, made by Opificio Ciclope for Italian web TV Pronti al peggio, and contain three new songs (two of which will not be made available anywhere else), as well as two remixes by hot items of the Italian club scene Congorock and Peluche (Dariella of hip hop band Amari and Matteo Lavagna of Disco Drive).

With a new and improved line-up, once again a five-piece but without guitars, (its members are Maolo Torreggiani, Andrea Mancin, Andrea Suriani, Alessandro Scagliarini and Federico Spadoni), My Awesome Mixtape made their comeback on the Italian stage, and they hust ended their fourth European tour.

"How Could A Village Turn Into A Town", was released on September 2009.

My Awesome Mixtape are:


Maolo Torreggiani
Andrea Mancin
Alessandro Scagliarini
Federico Spadoni
Andrea Suriani

My Awesome Mixtees

A limited edition (only 42 copies of every design!) series of t-shirt designed for My Awesome Mixtape from the most creative young artists and designers from eleven different countries: Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom.
Click here to buy.

My Awesome Mixtape's brand new EP "Other Houses" Free Download + Promobox in Limited Edition!

Piazza Delight: My Awesome Mixtape - Brotherhood (by Opificio Ciclope) from prontialpeggio on Vimeo.

Piazza Delight: My Awesome Mixtape - Me And The Washing Machine (by Opificio Ciclope) from prontialpeggio on Vimeo.

Watch the Videos and download "Other Houses" on Pronti al Peggio

and

Buy the Promobox Cassette + T-shirt in Limited Edition!

My Awesome Mixtape - Other Houses
42 Records
Release date: 18/05/09

Trabant VS My Awesome Mixtape Split!

On Mtv.it!

Our First Full Length "MY LONELY AND SAD WATERLOO"

Fully streamable
on last.fm!

My Awesome Mixtape - My lonely and sad Waterloo
I dischi de l'amico immaginario/My honey records
Release date: 07/09/07
Distribuzione: Audioglobe

Etichetta in AUSTRIA/GERMANIA/SVIZZERA: REWIKA (DISTRO: AL!VE)
Etichetta in GIAPPONE: P-VINE RECORDS

BOOKING AGENCY FOR ITALY: LOCUSTA mail@locusta.net or luca@locusta.net

MANAGEMENT & BOOKING AGENCY FOR EUROPE: LABILE info@labile.net

BOOKING AGENCY FOR GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, AUSTRIA AND BENELUX: PROTON TEAM henning@proton-team.com



Artworks and graphics (t-shirt, ep and everything around 'Other Houses') by Luca Gentile*


.. MySpace profile based on the layout handcrafted by Pino Ceniccola