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About Me

Fred Ventura’s musical journey started at the beginning of 1979, first as a drummer in several punk and new wave bands and then as vocalist of STATE OF ART, a very influential band in Milan's underground scene during the beginning of the 80's. After an amicable split with the band, Fred started his solo career writing and recording electro pop songs on a 4 track cassette machine with a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer and an Oberheim DX drum machine, a songwriting style that soon evolved into a more dance friendly vein thanks to the explosion of the Italo Disco Sound and his love for New Order's “Blue Monday” and Bobby O “ She Has A Way”. From 1983-1989 he released eleven 12” maxi singles and one album plus many other projects under different alias’ like FLEXX and PLEASURE & PAIN. His works with Italo legendary producers like Turatti & Chieregato and Farina & Crivellente on songs like “The Years” & “Wind Of Change” brought him great worldwide popularity. He has performed in clubs in Holland, Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Mexico and the U.S.A. Since the end of the eighties he has been producing and remixing Italian and international artists, doing A&R for several record labels ( EVOLUTION RECORDS, FREE ZONE, MILANO 2000 ) and producing his own music under different monikers as GREY AREA, ACTIVE, VIBRAZIONI PRODUCTIONS, ELECTRIQUE, most recently as BEDROOM ROCKERS for Universal Records while still lending lead vocals for various Clone Records associates as I-F, ALDEN TYRELL and JUPITER BLACK. ____________________________________________________________ __1978/1980 AN INCOHERENT PSYCHE (drums)1980 LE JOUR PROCHAIN (fred ventura + guests)1981/1982 STATE OF ART (vocals)1982/1983 ACTOR'S STUDIO (fred ventura + guests)1983/1984 FLEXX (turatti + chieregato + ventura)1983/1989 FRED VENTURA (solo)1990/1991 ACTIVE (fred ventura + gunilla backman)1990/1993 EVOLUTION RECORDS (label manager)1991/1993 FREE ZONE RECORDS (label manager)1990 GREY AREA/RED MECCA (fred ventura + stefano comazzi + livio fogli)1991/1993 GREY AREA (fred ventura + stefano comazzi)1990/1993 VISIONS FACTORY (fred ventura + stefano comazzi)1992 BEAT 4 LIFE (fred ventura + stefano comazzi)1991 LOVE NATION (fred ventura + enrico colombo + roberto mazzola + stefano comazzi)1993/1998 VIBRAZIONI PRODUCTIONS (fred ventura + vocal guests)1996/1999 MILANO 2000 RECORDS (label manager)1999 BEDROOM ROCKERS (fred ventura + enrico colombo)2001/2002 ELECTRIQUE (fred ventura + marcello catalano + stefano lotto)2004 REPRODUCTION (management: alex visconti + diego montinaro + raffaella destefano)for more details please go to www.discogs.com

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Member Since: 8/16/2006
Band Members: booking: [email protected]
Influences: HERE ARE MOST OF MY FAVOURITE ARTISTS, PRODUCERS AND RECORDS LABELS.....:23 skidoo / 808 state / a.c.r . / abc / act / add n to x / adrian sherwood / adult / afrika bambaataa / age of chance / a guy called gerald / air / alain chamfort / alden tyrell / alex sadkin / allez allez / animal nightlife / annie / antena / arpanet / artefact / arthur baker / art of noise / ashley and jackson / ash ra temple / au pairs / bam bam / banderas / barry adamson beloved / bertrand burgalat / big audio dynamite / billie ray martin / black / black britain / blancmange / blonde redhead / blondie / blue rondo a la turk / bobby o / bomb the bass / borghesia / broadcast / bronski beat / cabaret voltaire / can / carl craig / cath carroll / chakk / chelsea / chic / chicken lips / !!! / chris & cosey / chromatics / client / clock dva / cluster / colder / conny plank / cut copy / cybotron / daf / daft punk / daniel wang / david bowie / david holmes / death in vegas / delkom / delta 5 / derrick may / dexys midnight runners / dfa records / die krupps / dopplereffekt / dot allison / double / dymaxion / eater / echo & the bunnymen / egyptian lover / electrelene / electribe 101 / elli & jacno / elysian fields / esg / etienne daho / eurythmics / factory records / fad gadget / falco / fausto rossi / felix da housecat / franco battiato / francoise hardy / frankie goes to hollywood / fujiya & miyagi / fun boy three/ gang of four / garbo / garcons / gary numan / gaz nevada / generation x / gentle people / giorgio moroder / glass candy / glaxo babies / goldfrapp / grace jones / gramme / grandmaster flash and the furious five / gus gus / hard corps / harmonia / heaven 17 / holger hiller / hubert kah / humpe humpe / i-f / interpol / in the nursery / it's immaterial / jah wobble / james white / japan / jay jay johanson / joakim / john foxx / john robie / josef k / joy division / juan atkins / julien baer / kas produkt killing joke / komputer / konk / kraftwerk / kreidler / krisma / lali puna / larry heard / lcd soundsystem / leisure process / le mans / les rita mitsouko / lfo / liaisons dangereuses / lindstrom / liquid liquid / logic system / madonna / major force / malaria! / manuel gottsching / marc seberg / mark stewart / marquis de sade / martin rushent / massive attack / material / mathematiques modernes / maurizio / max berlin's / maximum joy / meat beat manifesto / melon / metro / metro area / mikado / minimal compact / missy elliot / neneh cherry / new musik / new order / new young pony club / nitzer ebb / n.o.i.a. / obiwatel g.c. / octave one / octobre / opel bastards / orange juice / orbital / output recordings / p.i.l. / palais schaumburg / paul haig / paul weller / pet shop boys / peter baumann / peter godwin / pete shelley / piano magic / pierre henry / pigna records / plastics / playgroup / polyrock / portishead / positive noise / prefab sprout / pressure drop / prince / propaganda / purple hearts / putsch '79 / pylon / rational youth / renegade soundwave / rheingold / righeira / rockers hi-fi / roxy music / saint etienne / salaryman / scritti politti / section 25 / serge gainsbourg / sex pistols / sham 69 / silver apples / simple minds / siouxsie and the banshees / skylab / sly & robbie / soulwax / snowy red / soft cell / space / spandau ballet / sparks / spk / stereolab / subway sect / suicide / sutra / tack head / talk talk / talking heads / tarwater / taxy girl / telex / the (international) noise conspiracy / the adverts / the associates / the blue nile / the buzzcocks / the clash / the emperor machine / the grid / the groove corporation / the human league / the (hypothetical) prophets / the jam / the jesus and the mary chain / the klf / the long blondes / the modernist / the orb / the pop group / the psychedelic furs / the sandals / the smiths / the sound / the system / the the / the twins / the undertones / the young disciples / thompson twins / throbbing gristle / tik & tok / timbaland / tindersticks / to rococo rot / tom tom club / tony mansfield / torch song / tortoise / trans am / tricatel / tricky / tussle / underground resistance / united future organisation / velvet underground / viewlexx records / visage / warp / wasted youth / wire / world of twist / xex / yello / young marble giants / ze records / ztt records /
Record Label: various labels
Type of Label: Indie

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2008 PLAYLIST

 FRED VENTURA > 2008 top 2001 LADYHAWKE: LADYHAWKE (ISLAND) 02 TV ON THE RADIO: DEAR SCIENCE (4AD)03 THE LONG BLONDES: COUPLES (ROUGH TRADE)04 SANTOGOLD: SANTOGOLD (LIZARD KING)05 GLASS CANDY: BE...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:48:00 GMT

MILANO NEW WAVE 1980-1983 CD RELEASE

Hello everybodyI'm glad to inform you about the creation of a new myspace page exclusively dedicated to the 80's Milan's new wave scene. In 1981 I was a member of State Of Art and this was my first ex...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:28:00 GMT

1983-2008 DISCO MODERNISM

Hello everybody I'm very happy to announce the release of my new cd that is out now on Clone (www.clone.nl). "Disco Modernism" is a collection of my favourite productions and ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:37:00 GMT

Fred Ventura solo discography 1984-1989

Zeit 12"/7" single (1984) CGD 15126 A:ZeitB1:Hollywood Party (vocal)B2:Hollywood Party (instrumental) The Years (Go By) 12" single (1984) GONG 012 A: The Years (Go By) B: Streets (All Right) Wind O...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:02:00 GMT

my playlists

  fred ventura > italo disco top ten 01 GAZNEVADA: I.C. LOVE AFFAIR (ITALIAN RECORDS) 1983 02 ATELIER FOLIE: NO RHYME, NO REASON (WEA) 1983 03 KLEIN & M.B.O.: DIRTY TALK (ZANZA) 1982 04 CA...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:17:00 GMT

bedroom rockers remixes

bedroom rockers remixes (fred ventura + enrico colombo) 1) VIBRAZIONI PRODUCTIONS : "Together" (Roots  1995) 2) VIBRAZIONI PRODUCTIONS : "So Deep" (Roots  1996) 3) VIBRAZIONI PRODUCTIONS : "Spr...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:03:00 GMT