FROST

I Frost sono una party band che fa muovere anche i sassi ! Il loro ultimo disco “Ludotech”, uscito a fine 2009, prodotto da Tony Lash (Dandy Warhols, Tahiti 80) e Marco Capaccioni (Subsonica, Frankie Hi-Nrg), miscela sapientemente elettropop, indie rock e dance.



Frost are the ultimate party band! They even make the rocks dance! Their latest album "Ludotech" - available now and produced by Tony Lash (Dandy Warhols, Tahiti 80) and Marco Capaccioni (Subsonica, Frankie Hi-Nrg) - blends electro, indie rock and dance.



BIOGRAFIA FROST



I Frost partecipano nel 2003 ad Arezzo Wave come band emergente.

Un infuocato show allo Psycho Stage fa conquistare ai quattro umbri il premio come miglior gruppo del 2003, su 1400 bands emergenti presenti da tutta Italia. Vincono la realizzazione del videoclip del brano “35 Beat” e si aggiudicano la produzione del loro primo album.

L’anno successivo è l’anno della svolta: esce il disco d’esordio “United Condom” (Ondanomala/Edel) interamente in inglese, registrato al Sound Studio Service di Città di Castello, prodotto da Marco Capaccioni e Alberto Brizzi.

I Frost lo presentano sul palco del Main Stage di Arezzo Wave (2004) dove si esibiscono prima dei Groove Armada e Little Louie Vega.

Sono positivamente recensiti nelle migliori riviste di musica, hanno numerose richieste di interviste e brani nelle playlist di tante importanti emittenti radiofoniche.

Nel 2005 sono tra le 10 migliori band Europee (unici italiani) a partecipare al reality show: “Mtv A Cut” girato a Londra con Anastacia, Wade Robson e Olivier Behezadi.

Dopo questa esperienza, susseguono numerose apparizioni a trasmissioni radiofoniche e televisive, sia in Italia che all’estero. Per citarne alcune: “Mtv Flash”, “Mtv Supersonic”, “Crazy Street”, “Mash Up”, “Zoombie (con lo zoo di 105)”, “Rock Da World”, “Scalo 76”, “Il Sabato del Villaggio”, “Rock Tv”, “Quelli che il Calcio”, “XFactor”, e diversi festival e manifestazioni come:

“Demo City London“, “Acquafan Dragonball Day”, “Sanremo IMD”, “MEI”, “Frequenze Disturbate”, ”Acquafan iPod Day”, “College Rock Berlin”, “Rock’n Umbria Festival”, “Meeting Del Mare”, “Elettrowave Festival”, “Umbria Jazz Festival”, “Eden Rock Festival”…

Nel 2008 realizzano anche un nuovo progetto, dedicato interamente alle produzioni dance e ai remix, chiamato “Frost Dj Sexx (“FDS”).

Vincono il contest di Qoob per il remix di “Lightspeed Champion” e vengono premiati direttamente dalla Domino Records.

Remixano numerosi artisti italiani e stranieri e alcuni dei loro lavori sono già stati pubblicati ufficialmente.

Nel 2009 il loro brano “Borotalco” viene scelto da Nokia Trends Lab che li inserisce nella compilation Hit Mania Dance 2009.

E’ nel corso di queste fasi artistiche e dalle maturate esperienze, che i Frost compongono ed incidono il nuovo ed atteso disco “Ludotech” (To Lose La Track/Audioglobe).



Hanno fatto da spalla a:

-Bugo, Amari, Yuppie Flu, Thank You For The Drum Machine, The Toy Orchestra, Karate, Z-star, Little Louie Vega (Master at Work) & his Elements of Life, Shit Disco, Soul II Soul, Groove Armada (Main Stage dell' Arezzo Wave Love Festival), Dirty Feel, The Hormonauts, Pram, Pulseprogramming, Nouvelle Vague, Kings of Convenience.



Hanno suonato come musicisti con:

-Loredana Bertè, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Robbie Ameen, Denise La Cruz (Master at Work), Yosvany Terry, Buena Vista Social Club, Roy Hargrove, Denise La Cruz, Robbie Ameen, Cristiano Arcelli ,The Neville Brothers, Dr. Bone & The Hepcats, Robert Lopez, Funk Off, Rockin’ Dopsie & The Zydeco Twisters, Derek Trucks (Eric Clapton's guitarrist) ecc.



Hanno suonato come Dj (Frost Dj Sexx) con:

-Erlend Oye, Bugo, My Owesome Mixtape, Ex-Otago, Amari, Claudio Coccoluto, Ralf, Tiger Tiger!,GG, No Seduction, Kenny Carpenter.



Hanno vinto:

-Arezzo Wave Love Festival 2003 come migliore band emergente, presentato l'album"United Condom" sul palco del Main Stage 2004 prima di Little Loue Vega e Groove Armada.

-Le selezioni italiane per il programma televisivo "MTV A CUT".

Dopo questa esperienza, hanno partecipato al reality music-show ai Premises Studios a Londra tra le dieci migliori bands europee (Trasmesso in tutta Europa).



FROST BIOGRAPHY



FROST are: Ricc, Lapo, Mac, Master, Gimbo and Ciccio.

They are an "electro-phunk” band.



STORY

2001: a record by "The President of the U.S.A.", an undergound club in Perugia and a sampler. The friendship between Riccardo Schippa "Ricc" (voice, guitar, laptop, fx) and Jacopo Tittarelli Rubboli "Lapo" (bass, voice, guitar, fx, sampler) was born out of a meeting of two extrovert and charismatic personalities, with a common passion for musical experimentation. The lab experiment started out for fun, but it soon became the first small group of FROST. Later Roberto Gatti "Master" (percussion), Federico Ortica "Mac" (drum, synth) and at last Lorenzo Sementilli "Gimbo" (guitar) joined the group. The philosophy behind their music is basically trial and mistake, where music itself is both the victim and attacker. We could also define it "romantic irony", where all the mistake conjure up for a loud laughter after an explicite joke. The scene in Perugia, in the middle of "musical culture nowhere", didn't help to support the first efforts of FROST: absence of situable clubs (as they never wanted to play in single and privee clubs. a recurrent sight in the desert of the soul that can be the Italian banlieue) and lack of promotion. However, they were exciting times indeed for the band and its first public steps. As a result, the band continued its experimentation with lo-fi loops and a descent towards a laptop or computer music so they created a parallel project: a live set (FROST Dj sexx) where the band played jam sessions using samplers, synthsizer and also more traditional instruments composing music influenced by bossanova, break, house, and glitch music. In 2003/2004 they played with the brit band Pram, the american Pulseprogramming and big latin american artists like Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Robbie Ameen, Denise La Cruz (Master at Work) at the summer jazz festival "Umbria Jazz". They began to appeal to a wider audience and when we say wider, we mean it: not only PC-geeks, lo-fi fanatics and alternative rockers, but also dance floor people and new jazz listeners.Meanwhile the live experience of the group was enriched by new gigs with big artists like the italian Bugo and Yuppie Flu, the american indie legend Karate and the brit Z-star.

2003: FROST won the Arezzo Wave Love Festival competition for new coming bands and they performed on the Psycho Stage with the philosophy You'd better take yourself not too serious". They were so popular at Arezzo Wave that the Arezzo Wave Italia Fondation awarded the band as the "Best new italian band of 2003 and the prize was the recording of an album at Sound Studio Service in Città di Castello (PG). They presented the album, called "United Condom", at the following Arezzo Wave Love Festival in 2004, where they played as support band for Loue Vega and Groove Armada.

2005: FROST made a video for "35 Beat", directed by Giacomo Cimini. They won the italian selection of the television programme MTV A CUT. Following this exploit, they partecipated in a reality-music show at the Premises Studios in London among the best ten bands in Europe (broadcasted all across Europe). Later, FROST played a dj set together with Erlend Oye (King of Convenience) at Rockin Umbria 2005. On 6th of August they played at "Frequenze Disturbate Festival" with: Dinosaur Jr, Yo La Tengo, Echo And Tthe Bunnymen, Blonde Redhead, Sophia, Julian Cope, The Raveonettes, Four Tet and more. FROST played at "Red Zone Club" too, with Soul II Soul. They came back to London to play a gig @ Cargo, in Shoreditch, with all the friends of Mtv A Cut.

2006: They recorded the songs "220 Voltz", "Sveglio Quì" and "Troppi caffè" with Marco Capaccioni at Sound Studio Service in Città di Castello. "Esplicito" with Tony Lash at Sound Studio Service of Città di Castello and Tony's Studio in Portland.

2008: FROST are working on a new cd in italian & english! Soon in all the best music store.

2009: FROST are working on FROST DJ SEXX dance project!!!



They played as a support band for:

-Bugo, Amari, Yuppie Flu, Thank You For The Drum Machine, The Toy Orchestra, Karate, Z-star, Little Louie Vega (Master at Work) & his Elements of Life, Shit Disco, Soul II Soul, Groove Armada (Main Stage of Arezzo Wave Love Festival), Dirty Feel, The Hormonauts, Pram, Pulseprogramming, Nouvelle Vague, Kings of Convenience.



They played as a musician with:

-Loredana Bertè, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Robbie Ameen, Denise La Cruz (Master at Work), Yosvany Terry, Buena Vista Social Club, Roy Hargrove , Denise La Cruz, Robbie Ameen, Cristiano Arcelli ,The Neville Brothers, Dr. Bone & The Hepcats, Robert Lopez, Funk Off, Rockin’ Dopsie & The Zydeco Twisters, Derek Trucks (Eric Clapton's guitarrist) ecc.



They played as a support Dj (Frost Dj Sexx) for:

-Erlend Oye, Bugo, My Owesome Mixtape, Ex-Otago, Amari, Claudio Coccoluto, Ralf, Tiger Tiger!,GG.



Frost won:

-Arezzo Wave Love Festival competition for new coming bands as the "Best new italian band of 2003, presented the album, called "United Condom", at the following Arezzo Wave Love Festival in 2004, where they played as support band for Loue Vega and Groove Armada.

-The italian selection for the television programme "MTV A CUT". Following this exploit, they partecipated in a reality-music show at the Premises Studios in London among the best ten bands in Europe (broadcasted all across Europe).



They are recording the new album of Frost with Marco Capaccioni, Leonardo (Fresco) Beccafichi and Tony Lash at Sound Studio Service of Città di Castello and Tony's Studio in Portland.



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