Motel Connection

Born on the very beginning of the new millennium, Motel Connection made waves alongside the Italian dance scene throughout all this years. Ask why? Well… They’re special, they’re different. It all started as a part time project combining Pisti, vibrant house dj, Samuel, gifted vocalist of one the most successful Italian acts of the last decade, Subsonica, and Pierfunk, ultra-skilled bass player truly aware of what the word “funk” means. A three-piece collective devoted to designing sound and creating atmospheres in special environments for special events, down there in Turin, their hometown, that’s it. It’s not a surprise that the word started spreading and things got serious, and in 2001 film director Marco Ponti asked them to create the soundtrack for his “Santa Maradona” movie, which happened to be a brilliant and surprising success, with its continual search for humour, new styles, passion, melancholy. …all ingredients that Motel Connection sincerely know. Next year, 2002, it was the time for “Give Me A Good Reason To Wake Up”, their debut album, warmly received by the critics just as by the audience. 2004: once again Marco Ponti is looking for Motel Connection’s touch, asking them to take care of the soundtrack of his following film, “A/R”, and our three guys were able to manage (and had fun in doing that!) an intricate path that combined four-to-the¬-floor house joints with intense indie-rock tracks, all created and played inviting the truly best names of the Italian indie-rock scene. There we go… Who are Motel Connection? What are they doing? You can say it’s house music. You can say that it’s something that deals with the so-called club culture (especially if you know about Krakatoa, their very own club night that in a few years has become a myth alongside the Italian club scene, with a weekly residency in Turin hosting guests like Josh Wink, Alex Smoke, Felix Da Housecat and Marco Carola, and many visits outside their hometown). But, well, perhaps we’ve got here something that’s a little bit a more, ain’t we? We’ve got a dj on stage, but we’ve also got a bass player funky-as-hell, and a singer who can also indifferently play the guitar or spin the vinyl. We’ve got a constant longing to communicate with people in front of them, introducing some of them for the first to the spirit of house music and club culture, but also fulfilling the needs of those aware of what happened in Chicago 20 years ago or in Detroit 15 years, or New York and Berlin now. Don’t be surprised it you see Motel Connection rocking the crowd with house anthems just as with their own particular reinterpretations of New Order or Frankie Goes To Hollywood tracks. Don’t be surprised if they use the raw power of spinning the vinyls or they offer intense interactions with experimental visuals. They’re moving. They’re running through different paths at the same time. What about the next step, then? Its name is “Do I Have A Life?”, their second studio lp, released in 2006. Motel Connection’s recipe gets sharper and sharper, it focuses and the essence of rhythm&sound, capturing Richie Hawtin’s and UR’s lesson, and combining it with their own touch. Years and years of evolution, of clubbing, of artistical growth, of a constant aim to improve skills and attitude are there: it’s all in eleven, essential tracks, it’s all in an album that is a perfect tale for modern (night)times.