So there I was that night on june 9th looking through myspace mail at all of the "check my band out" plugs, ads for new tshirt shops, and clothing lines, and all of the micellaneous garbage that myspace spammers throw at you, when I got a video from SCHLOCK! Not just a video but an awesome mix of sound that stood out above the rest. Simple sonic perfection.
Of course I had to leave a nice comment
he immediately wrote back thanking me for my kindness (Again, Well deserved) And had asked to Remix a track. Honored, I sent him the tracks for Something Sweet and hoped for the best in about a month or so.
today is the 14th. I just got the finished remix in my mail at 3:00 PM. Thats 5 days from when we first said hello to one another outside of "thanks for the add". I must admit, not only did he remix it, he completely reinvented the way it makes you feel. (I know, all djs make that claim, but c'mon, how many actually pull it off?) I couldn't be happier with it. Its truley amazing.
So check it out, we have it on our player, Just look for Something Sweet SCHLOCK! remix. here is a link to SCHLOCK!'s page
http://www.myspace.com/schlockmuzyck ...and his bio of sorts that I yanked from his page
Gianluca "Schlock!" Licciardi (B. 1978) is a self-taught Italian 'cheap electronic' music composer, producer, remixer, sound artist and performer who firmly believes in the possibilities of visual sound.
He scored short/medium length movies and documentaries (the award winning Dentro Roma / In the Heart of Rome, 2006; Massima Punizione, 2006; Entr'acte Cambodgien, 2005) and wrote music for silent movie classics (Das Kabinett des dr. Caligari, 1919) and contemporary cult classics (Tetsuo, 1988; Maniac, 1980). Since 2007 he's working with Nonantola Film Festival, for which he's made available several tracks to be used by the filmmakers involved; also with Murgia Film Festival (2006 and 2007) for which he supervised and edited some after-hour events (performances, live shows and dj-sets). He also published three concept albums, available for free download: Bad Chemistry (2007), broken blossom (2004) and It's Like Having a Madman in the House (2001).
He is currently running Sound Design, etc., for which he is arranging, programming and creating sound design, noises and special sound effects for several artists and companies (CUREPROJECT, THE LOST, LASITUAZIONE, ANTHONY DE LUCA, PODYOURCAST, AZIENDA OSPEDALIERA SAN CAMILLO/FORLANINI, NONANTOLA FILM FESTIVAL, MURGIA FILM FESTIVAL, IN/ARCH - ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA & CINECITTÀ HOLDING, CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA, NANOF, BROCHE, MILIA PLVS, HERISTAL/COMUNE DI ROMA, UNDERMYBED, ETC.) + also working on STAR WHORES®, a non-profit and - hopefully - community-built label dedicated to providing high quality, non-commercial, freely distributable dance, house and electro-pop music for download), a pop sideproject called "lucamörde", a sonic translation of Monty Python's Flying Circus and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane + a sonic architecture concept developed for iPod, Rome, ext. night.
His remix "Lover - Laure Castelli Garcia" appears on LOVEREMIXED (Lover remix EP) by Eastman (Mode2 Recordings, august 2007), while SCHLOCK! first single THE WORLD ACCORDING TO A SLUT has been released on April 2008 (Mode2 Recordings).
His next goal is AN EXPERIMENT IN tERROR. In the future, he'd love to work on horror movies; he'd also like to meet Dario Argento and Mirco Mencacci...
what a guy!
please check him out, friend him, make him feel at home here in the states (again?) He deserves to be heard.
kisses
~Al