The label hopping endeavours of Queens based Italian chatterbox come producer par excellence Madteo continues apace with the forthcoming release of the Strumpetocracy EP on Seattle label Nuearth Kitchen – get a grip of what to expect here.
Brand new London party Reel-To-Real is bringing Workshop and Hinge Finger associate Madteo to the capital for his debut DJ set, with Sex Tags Mania’s DJ Sotofett also set to appear.
We’re not sure exactly who is behing the pan European label Shaddock Records but they surely know their onions, with their fifth release a killer EP from Ann Arbor producer Tadd Mullinix under his JTC alias.
In a recent interview with Resident Advisor, Joy Orbison stated that Madteo was such an interesting character that he simply had to put the Italian producer’s face on the sleeve of his debut 12” for the newly minted Hinge Finger imprint. The Bugler Gold record and its cover, a greyscale image of Madteo, eyes locked in a steely glare with hair slicked back in a cartoonish quiff, gave him a lot of new admirers, and it happened to arrive in the midst of a breakthrough year for the New York based artist, real name Matteo Ruzzon.
Many may have been surprised to hear that the first release on Joy Orbison and Will Bankhead’s new Hinge Finger imprint was going to be from Workshop associate Madteo, given Orbison’s recent forays into more abrasive territory with Boddika. However Orbison and Bankhead have had a longstanding admiration for the German imprint, with Kassem Mosse being chosen in 2010 to remix Braiden for Orbison’s Doldrums imprint, and a cassette mix from Mosse being released through Bankhead’s Trilogy Tapes imprint.