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Apes on Tapes come to light in Bologna (Italy), during the warm sweaty spring-summer of 2005. Antani and LagÃ r were two solo artists (actually Antani played with the Blip Trio), but since they listen to each others live performances, at Homework Festival 3.0 (May 05), they understand they have to build and deconstruct tunes together. Luca (LagÃ r) was an italian-east-coast-rock-addicted teenager who later moved to electronic beats; Giordano (Antani) grew up with Akai samplers in an old school hip hop atmosphere in Tuscany. They both go to the uni in Bologna and fall in love for Scott Herren's never-heard-before hiphop. LagÃ r loves Antanis feelings for hip-hop rythms and his melodic reversed guitars. Antani is looking for LagÃ rs fat basses and hip-hop minimalism...in other words they find out they must become a duo, since one fills the others lacks and vice versa.
This is how Apes on Tapes was born in the spring-summer 2005, right after Homework Festival. Apes on Tapes play live sets with a laptop and midi controllers, having fun deconstructing their own beat lines and rebuliding them through shuffled crazy triplettes. They performed at Nextech Festival (Florence), Enzimi 2007 (Rome), Cassero (Bologna), MUV Festival (Florence), Millennium (Bologna), Homework Festival 4.0 & 5.0 (Bologna), Dancity Festival (Foligno), Covo Club (Bologna).
Discography:
[HWR002] Ape Re Thieves ep (Jan '06)
[HWR009] You Open (Jan '08)
[HWR009] You Open Remixed (Catkilla Eats Fishpasta) (Jan '08)
with remixes by Eriksolo (Meanest Man Contest), Touane, Ether, Micamat
A remix appears on [HWR007] Ether - 4.3.40.30
A track appears on [HWR008] VV.AA. - Lavori Domestici
The releases are free download on www.homeworkrecords.net .
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Member Since: 2/9/2006
Band Website: homeworkrecords.net
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Influences: AoT influences: Prefuse 73-Dabrye-Meanest Man Contest-Reminder-Flying Lotus-Madlib-Populous-AmmonContact-Ahmad Szabo-Headset-Eastern Development stuff-Ninja Tune stuff-Plug Research stuff-and every similar stuff we don't know yet...and , of course, Lucio Battisti, Mina, Eric Satie, Elisa...more to come...Luca "my personal influences", starting from the very very beginning: Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Harper, all the stuff in Seatlle's 90s, Boom Bip, Caribou (or Manitoba, as u want), Savath y Savalas, Amon Tobin, Squarepusher, Wagon Christ, Beck, Pharrell, Slicker, Madlib, Casino Royale, Burnt Friedman, The Books, H. Hancock, Jelinek, Deadbeat, Bonobo, Lali Puna, Eliot Lipp...boh! May i forget HOMEWORK???
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[HWR010] Apes on Tapes - YOU OPEN REMIXED (Catkilla eats Fishpasta)--- download

with remixes by
Eriksolo (Meanest Man Contest - Plug Research)
Touane (Persona Rec.)
Ether (Mousikelab, Audioaubergine)
Micamat (Homework Rec.)

[HWR009] Apes on Tapes - YOU OPEN --- download

[HWR008] vv.aa. - LAVORI DOMESTICI --- DOWNLOAD NOW!

[HWR002] Apes on Tapes - Ape Re_Thieves --- download

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Record Label: Homework Records
Type of Label: Indie

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[HWR010] Apes on Tapes - YOU OPEN REMIXED (Catkilla eats Fishpasta) out 27/02/08

[HWR010] Apes on Tapes YOU OPEN REMIXED (Catkilla eats Fishpasta)out February 27 2008 on www.homeworkrecords.netTRACKLIST1. Catkilla (Eriksolo remix)2. Catkilla (Touane remix)3. Catkilla (Ether remix...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:40:00 PST

[HWR009] Apes on Tapes - YOU OPEN out 1st February!!!

[HWR009] "YOU OPEN". Apes on Tapes' full length debut will be released on 1st February 2008. The album will be released on Italian Homework Records Netlabel (www.homeworkrecords.net), high quali...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:44:00 PST

Apes on Tapes remix out on HWR

An Apes on Tapes' remix of Ether's "Micheleincasa" is going to be out on February 2nd 2007 on Homework Records 7th release: ETHER - 4.3.40.30 epCrazy broken destroyed hip hop beats and powerful melodi...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:35:00 PST

Live set @ Sugarbabe free download!

Apes on Tapes' live set @ Dj for Sale! recorded...u can download it here:http://www.myspace.com/djsforsalehttp://www.blentwell.c om/tags.php/abstract%20hip%20hopCheck it out!...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:06:00 PST

In italian postal service we trust...

Just sent a demo cd to the States 10 days ago...we just hope our and american postal services are working properly......
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:34:00 PST

New laptop begins in Foligno...thanks guys!

Ok...as posted before, Apes on Tapes launched their brand new-monster-powerful-unbeatable laptop! The first appearance of the beast happened for the live set played at DanCity Festival in Foligno, sat...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:28:00 PST

New laptop about to come...

Finally it's gonna happen!!! After one year of disasters during live sets, problems, crashes, crazy cpu behaviours AoT will be able to get a new laptop to play with... We assure it will be used just f...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:32:00 PST

Apes on Tapes' live set recorded and download free!

Here we are...our latest live performance is available for free download on the following web sites:DE:BUG-------------http://www.de-bug.de/pod/archives/1 120.htmlSUGARBABE.ORG-------------http://www.s...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:46:00 PST

Apes on Tapes first ep out now on Homework Records

Apes on Tapes first release ever is now available @ www.homeworkrecords.net Hwr002 APES ON TAPES Ape re_thieves Just six months after its birth, the duo Apes on Tapes comes out with a fo...
Posted by Apes on Tapes on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:49:00 PST