Andrea Doria

Andrea Doria is 31 years old and lives in Ravenna (famous of its Roman mosaics), close to Bologna, in Italy. At the tender age of 8 his father bought him his first analog synth and since then he realized that this sound is going to be part of his DNA. At the age of 16, he began to develop a passion for computers and he became a programmer. At the arrival of the first 8/16bit computer he started earning a living composing soundtracks for videogames, and also for some Italian software companies, simply using the synth processors (SID/Commodore64) and language machine. Since then Andrea's artistic knowledge developed with a powerful influence of some eclectic artists from the seventies like Klaus Schuize, Richard Wahnfried, Chris and Cosey and Edgar Frose. In the 90s he was completely blown away by the house scene and decided that DJing was going to become his career. He was fascinated by the way these DJs alchemists used to mix sounds and cultures at the same time and created such a big interest in the booming Dance scene. In December 2003, Andrea thought that only by having his own record label would help him in being artistically free in his productions, and "Ready 2 Rock Music" was born. A year later after the huge success of BUCCI BAG, that was signed to Fatboyslim's Southern Fried records, started to fade away Andrea decided to look into a new direction and find a way to push his artistic boundaries and took a year off music production and started to get in the field of 3D art visuals. With the help of some good friends, he got hooked up to this new field of work were he could combine music production & visuals production and even started to design 3D music videos and his first product available to the public is going to be the video of his own new single "BABY TV". With his new philosophy of life "NOT ONLY A DJ", Andrea will definitely be pushing setting up new standards for the modern DJ and produce fresh musical and visual ideas and write some novels on his own website : www.andreadoria.dj (Only italian, sorry.) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.