
Ke$ha Sleazy Drag Edit (J.G./City Of Hungry Ghosts?/beatimprint) by johngomi



So is the graphical identity of DZA, so is his music. Quick, dirty and raw. His 16-track beat tape “Five-Finger Discount” hijacks you into his kinderzimmer wherein sticker-laden efx pedals render homage to the MPC and DZA is lost behind the screen of his macbook. This tape has detailed textures and beats full of minutiae as well as the heavy bangers.
Often the brightest lights emanate from the biggest cities. My Dry Wet Mess, a.k.a. Giovanni Civitenga, 27, has spent his life in two giants: ... (more) Rome and Barcelona, but his sound might be easily confused with two others: Los Angeles and London.
Equal parts slack Beats and gauzy Bass, Boom and Slo-Synth, Gio's music goes beyond sound effects to express emotion through the prism of melody. In this realm some call Luvstep or Purple or Wonky, where the guidelines are still being set, young voices can elude easy definition.
Though his father is the bass player for Ennio Morricone's orchestra and a studio guitarist on numerous Italian records, Gio chose a less traditional route to music. Starting at age 14 with a sampler and an Atari, his experiments in beatmaking eventually grew into multimedia explorations.