Artist: Stefano De Santis
Title: Sick with Rhyme ‘North Street West’ Remix EP
Release date: July 3rd, 2023
Label: Ramrock Red Records
Cat. No: RRR044
Format: Digital
Italian composer, producer and studio wizard, Stefano De Santis, is back on Ramrock Red Records again – and this time, the North Street West production crew have taken his ‘Sick with Rhyme’ from his wildly successful 2022 ‘Unreachable Galaxy’ EP and applied their remix magic. The original track was recorded entirely at Re:Fill Studio, Rome with Stefano playing Rhodes, piano, clavinet, Prophet 5, Moog, Solina String Ensemble, Juno 6 and drum programming. But on these remixes, Ashley Beedle provides all the drum programming, Darren Morris adds additional keyboards and instrumentation, and Jo Wallace oversees the arrangement on the EP, drawing inspiration from Todd Edwards, Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters, Bugz in the Attic and MJ Cole.
Rome based, Stefano De Santis is conservatory trained and raised on the music of Weather Report and Azymuth, with his recent musical output being fully supported by UK music legend, Colin Curtis. Stefano has been a go-to session player in many projects across multiple genres - from jazz to funk, reggae, and pop, and in 2017, he launched the ‘Big Beat’ trio who blended pure jazz with new synth sounds and syncopated drum patterns. Later, in 2020, Stefano teamed up with his friend and consummate drummer, Gaetano De Carli to form Re:Fill. Since then, the duo have taken their music to a further level and developed a brace of imaginative and complex grooves. Gaetano provides a rich musical background to combine with Stefano’s soulful synth-work, balancing the old world and the contemporary. Their first record, ‘Cycles’, on Cognitiva Records, was released in June 2022 and features important collaborations with heavy-hitters from the UK’s DJ-producer scene, Ben Hauke and WheelUp. In 2023, Stefano released the brilliant, bossa infused ‘Barra Nova’ available on vinyl.
Founded in 2014 by Jo Wallace
Ramrock = reggae Ramrock Blue = soul Ramrock Red = Balearic/Hip
Hop/Jazz/Electronica.
Jo is part of the North Street Studio One Remix crew with DJ/producer Ashley Beedle + musical supremo Darren Morris. Artists include Greg Blackman, Ghetto Priest, DB Cohen, Joseph Malik, Pauline Taylor, Steven Christie + Kameelah Waheed. 2021 is full of musical goodness....more
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