Frederico Conti

Frederico Conti

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About Frederico Conti

Federico Conti started his life in music at a young age. Federico studying modern jazz with the famous American organ player Shirley Scott from Philadelphia and with James Williams from NYC for piano specialization. In 1999, DJ Daniele Baldelli introduced Federico into the Italian club culture listening to uk garage and 2 step. Soon after, he began playing and producing live-set with grooves machines & real time sequencing, playing funky-house, 2 step, uk-garage and hip-hop. In 2000, he started to play as a DJ and combined the use of turntables and PCs and sequencing them together. As his club world was getting bigger, Federico was still tuning his piano and organ talents on his own and working with other jazz artists such as Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari, Benny Golson, Charles Bowen, Lannie McMillan, Mike Stern, Buster Williams, and Mel Gaynor from Simple Minds. As a musician he has performed at the some of the most important European Jazz festivals, Jazz Image, JVC Newport and We Love Jazz. As DJ and playing live sets, he has played house music in some of the hottest Italians Nightclubs like Fura, Genux, Gasoline, Hennessy, Rock City and Hip Hop in several American Nightclubs as well as inside the NATO Military Bases in Italy. In 2001, Federico created the production company "Mahjong Music", producing singles, LPs and compilations for various record labels, publishers and television broadcasting networks. Through "Mahjong Music" he has had music released in 24 countries around the world. Today, Frderico is spending most of his time in production work than DJing and performing. In 2004, he became part to the project "Cube Guys", with Intrallazzi (from FPI project) and Luca Provera, producing the Ibiza hit "TE QUIERO" for the Roger Sanchez's label (Stealth Records), which landed in the Top 10 list on the European House Charts as well as working on a single from Kym Mazelle's LP "The Pleasure Is All Mine". Because of his love for making music, up through 2005, he has produced and sold records for "Hed Kandi" (UK), "Airplane! Records" (Usa), "Stealth Records" (Netherlands), "Jinxx Records" (Canada), Nick Holder's "DNH Recordings" (Canada), "M.O.D.A. Music/ Warner Music" (Italy), "Media Records" (Italy), "S2S" (Japan), "David Gresham Group" (South Africa), "KULT" (Usa), "Born 2 Dance" (UK) and "ACT2" (Usa) to name a few. Also in 2005, "Mahjong Music" partnered up with Mediaset Group, the biggest private TV network in Italy, to launch "Samples Recreation" (www.recreatingsamples.com). Taking famous samples and recreating them for several producers, labels and publishers, making "Mahjong Music" Europes 3rd top company for this service. In 2005, MAHJONG MUSIC started licensing activity, working as a record label for the 1st time. MAHJONG RECORDINGS beginning catalogue is involved in 3 different genres, Vocal House Music, Chill-Out / Downtempo, Electronica and Crossover Dance Music. As a label, the primary achievements are to do promotion, licensing out new media worldwide and branching out to the new world of podcast selling.

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