Simone Fedi was born as an artist in 1998 as singer of the Flake, new metal band, that manages to stand out for its innovative character and strong influence. In 1999 they win the important Cencio's prize that brings them to play in the most famous clubs of Tuscany and to get several proposals from record companies. Unfortunately the group slits up after the death of the guitar player Luca Scopelliti.
That's when Simone starts his solo carreer that pushes him in the beginning to the pure electronic testing and then to the long term relationship with the dance and new dance music.
He founded "The Essential Ventilation", sperimental band composed by Simone Fedi at the sequencing, keyboards and guitar, Francesco Piccirillo scratching and effects, Banjo acoustic and electronic bass guitar. With this team Simone manages to mix funk, minimal, house and break beat with an incredible live feeling with a great impact.
After the collection of singles Banjo leaves " The Essential Ventilation" leaving Simone and Francesco to a new musical freedom that brings them to get great artistic success.
A.M.P., that's the name of the project that Simone Fedi, with the help of Francesco Piccirillo and Dino Storai, found with the precise intention of bringing live sets where just world renowned dj sets have been done. The response they get from the audience is overwhelming as A.M.P., further to the minimal-deep-electro music, enriches their dj sets with video projections and many instruments such as two computers, synth, sequencer, consolle dj and revolutionary effects.
Immediately noticed in clubs such as Tenax, ex Mud, Le giardin au bord du Lac, Insomnia and Officina Giovani, A.M.P. stars producing tracks to be played during their live sets.
In 2006 Laboraudio decides to release the album "Pensamiento", compilation of singles auto-produced from A.M.P.
But Simone has the impression that this music direction is made to end, and he invents in 2005 a new path to be followed.
Further to the production increasingly more sperimental and of sound development, what today is called "new dance", Simone finds a new way to do music. The will to start making real music with real instruments is increasing and he puts himself into this with all his heart, following who he considers the centerpieces of this innovative genre: The Emperor Machine, Prins Thomas, Lindstrom and so on...
"Astral Manhole Project" that's the name that Simone decides to give to his new project. He creates a recording studio Astral Manhole Studio, expressily created for his productions and open to the public as project and recording studio. Choosing vintage analogic synthesizers Simone manages to sculpt his deep sound and aggressive at the same time, mixing funk, italian disco, house and synth pop.
Scores an important release for the Eskimo Recordings and it’s immediately a Worldwide success: Belzebù Tales.
The recods gets reviews from: Tiga, Lindstrom, Aeroplane, Jason Eldredge, Low Motion Disco, Munk (Gomma), Serge (Clone), Zak Frost, Piccadilly Records, Phonica Records and many others. Claudio Coccoluto consecrates the success by playing 2m/6ft on Radio Deejay during his program called C.O.C.C.O. and Tinga puts Judas! on his “My name is Tiga” pod cast in exclusive for iTunes.
After such a debut Eskimo reconfimrs its choice by publishing the Sub-Space, single carrying 3 tracks Sub-Space, Sub-Space (Out of City RMX) and Yeah!
Other hit and lots of reviews: Laurent Garnier, Prins Thomas, Nick Chacona, Agoria, Aeroplane, Pete Herbert, Peter Visti, Rob Mellow, Andy Warburton, Tom Taylor and many others.
Sub-Space reaches the fifth place on the best seller chart of Juno Records and on the homepage of Beatport too. Simone is contacted by the Smash Hit Music (San Francisco), label very popular because of the 40 Thieves, for the release of a single.
It’s how The Funkology EP is born: five tracks of which 2 are original (Funkology and Samba!) and three remixes, one of these doneby the 40 Thieves.
These release goes straight to the home page of Juno Downloads and fifth on the best seller chart.
Simone Fedi aka Astral Manhole Project during his shows creates a live/dj set strong and dynamic, where the sound retrò of the electronic disco music and the one of the new modern dance are mixed together, giving birth to an overwhelming performance made of stirring improvisations.
