A wollen fabric heart pinned on a t-shirt, a marked geeky-nerd attitude is what make My Awesome Mixtape unique of its kind... Five guys with a mission: "Make your heart beat and your hands clap in time". It all started in a room surrounded by a wonderful bolognese panorama similar to the darkest and most gothic Edgar Allan Poe's settings... Here is where MAM are born and grew up with their "Catchy Geek Pop", something totally different from the Poe's landscape! Friendly, Happy, Fresh, Young (as the age of the band members) the my awesome mixtape songs are certainly inspired to the Anticon Scene (why?, themselves ...most of all), Suburban Kids with Biblical Name, The Faint, Tender Forever and the Blow. What will happen next?! That's basically unknown, apart from spreading the Nerd Word all over europe and the entire world.
MAM's story starts, like that of many other bands, in their bedroom.
That’s where, at the tail end of 2006, Maolo, Checco and Bebo – three spritely Bolognese regaz – half-jokingly start making music. Mixing and matching their favourite styles, they end up generating an original mix of indie rock, hip hop and electronica, the kind you cannot fail to dance to.
In the space of a few months, the band’s first songs become the talk of the town, and soon enough they are hailed everywhere as Italy’s next big thing. At that point, leaving the bedroom to go out and play with the big kids is almost mandatory. After a few changes in line-up and solo experiments, MAMe become a fivesome: Maolo Torreggiani, Andrea Mancin, Andrea Sologni, Alessandro Scagliarini and Federico Spadoni. Their first album, titled My Lonely and Sad Waterloo, is published on September 8th 2007.
Upon the album’s release, the band has already played in half the country’s live venues, and tries successfully to go abroad and export their music in the rest of Europe. At the end of 2008, MAM’s Neverending Tour will have lined up a smashing 158 live gigs, and gained the band an award as Best Live Band of the season at the annual Meeting of Independent Labels in Faenza.
That’s not the end of it. MAM’s participation in a compilation sponsored by Mercedes-Benz, the special guest appearance in the ensemble video for La nuova musica italiana by Italian hardcore sensations Linea77, and the re-release of “My Lonely And Sad Waterloo” in Germany, and in Japan, start paving the way for a new album, scheduled for release in the fall of 2009.
How Could a Village Turn Into a Town, their second album, has been released in Italy and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Recorded byBruno Germano of Settlefish, the album marks a new progression in My Awesome Mixtape’s artistic growth. Composed, arranged and played as a team effort, it matches its predecessor’s freshness with a newfound maturity and awareness in handling and shaping sound.
The album was preceded in May 2009 by the Other Houses EP, issued in double format, digital and coloured cassette tape (for a total of 168 numbered copies). The EP was accompanied by two live videos, made byOpificio Ciclope for Italian web TV Pronti al peggio, and contain three new songs(two of which will not be made available anywhere else), as well as two remixes by hot items of the Italian club scene Congorock and Peluche (Dariella of hip hop band Amari and Matteo Lavagna of Disco Drive).
With a new and improved line-up, once again a five-piece but without guitars, (its members are Maolo Torreggiani, Andrea Mancin, Andrea Suriani, Alessandro Scagliarini and Federico Spadoni), My Awesome Mixtape made their comeback on the Italian stage, and they hust ended their fourth European tour.
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