Bottin
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Guglielmo "William" BOTTIN (1977) is a music producer, dj and sound designer, based in Venice, Italy. As sound artist he was selected for Fabrica, the Benetton creative research center founded by Oliviero Toscani
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he curated the Color Music series, presented at the Sónar
festival in Barcelona. For the Biennale of Venice he designed audio for Spanish Pavilion by Antoni Muntadas.
Oliviero Toscani
Oliviero Toscani is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000...
. For Colors Magazine
Colors magazine
Colors magazine is a multilingual quarterly magazine developed in Italy by Fabrica, Benetton's research center. There are three editions published: French/English, Italian/English, and Spanish/English. Each issue has a theme and covers the topic from an international perspective...
he curated the Color Music series, presented at the Sónar
Sónar
Sónar is an annual three-day music festival held in Barcelona, Spain. It is described officially as a festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. Music is by far the main aspect of the festival....
festival in Barcelona. For the Biennale of Venice he designed audio for Spanish Pavilion by Antoni Muntadas.
Selected Discography
- Discocracy / August (2010, Eskimo Recordings, BE)
- Galli (Give It Up) / Piazza Venezia (2010, Eskimo Recordings, BE)
- Discoursive Diversions (2010, Nang, UK)
- Hot Ring (2010, Bear Funk, UK)
- Horror Disco (2009, Bear Funk, UK)
- No Static (2009, Italians Do It Better, UK)
- Fondamente Nove (2008, Eskimo Recordings, BE)
- I Love Me Vol. I (2004, Irma/Sony, IT)
- Chill Reception (2002)
Remixes
- Time & Space Machine: Set Phasers To Stun (Tirk, UK)
- Patty PravoPatty PravoPatty Pravo is an Italian pop singer whose career has spanned more than four decades. Her first single "Ragazzo triste", released in 1966, was the first pop song aired on Vatican Radio...
: Bambola (Vendetta Records, ES) - Solarstone: Electric Love (Solaris, UK)
- Lindstrøm: Paaskelyd (Bear Funk, UK)
- Sally ShapiroSally ShapiroSally Shapiro is the pseudonym of a Swedish vocalist and the name of the Italo disco/synthpop duo composed of Shapiro and musician Johan Agebjörn.-History:...
: My Fantasy (Permanent Vacation, DE) - King Dj: Escape From New York (Nang, UK)
- In Flagranti: Ex Ex Ex" (Codek, USA)
- Ali LoveAli LoveAli Love is a solo musician who was previously signed to Columbia Records.In 2006 Ali Love released his first two singles, "K-Hole" and "Camera on a Pole" on his own independent label "I Love Records". He rose to the limelight providing vocals for The Chemical Brothers hit, "Do It Again", for...
: Smoke And Mirrors (Back Yard, UK) - Pollyn: I Can't Get Into It (unsigned USA)
- Lost ValentinosLost ValentinosLost Valentinos are a band from Sydney, Australia. They released two EPs under the band name The Valentinos but changed their name in mid 2007 to Lost Valentinos due to the threat of legal action by soul artists from the 1950s, Bobby Womack & The Valentinos...
: Nightmoves (EtcEtc, AUS) - Space: Carry On Turn Me On (Nang, UK)
- Space: Tango In Space (Nang, UK)
- Telonius: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Gomma, DE)
- Oscar G. & Stryke: Hypnotized (Hooj Choones, UK)
- SolangeSolangeSolange was a Frankish shepherdess and a locally-venerated Christian saint, whose cult is restricted to Sainte Solange, Cher...
: Robots Are Dub-American (Italians Do It Better, USA) - ToscaToscaTosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...
: Elektra Bregenz (G-Stone, Austria) - JupiterJupiterJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
: Starlighter" (ESR/La Main, FR) - The Emergency: Fantasy (Metal Postcard, USA)
- Wax Stag: And How (People In The Sky, UK)
- Codebreaker: Follow Me (Disco Demolition, USA)
- Miss Plug Inn: Chanson D'Amour (energy tango mix)
- Miss Plug Inn: Zodiac Bottin Remix (Music Control, CH)
- Rettore: Splendido Splendente remix (Novunque/Self, IT)
- Sergio Caputo: Non Bevo Più Tequila (Idiosyncrasy Music, USA)
Installations
- House of GonzagaHouse of GonzagaThe Gonzaga family ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708.-History:In 1433, Gianfrancesco I assumed the title of Marquis of Mantua, and in 1530 Federico II received the title of Duke of Mantua. In 1531, the family acquired the Duchy of Monferrato through marriage...
: La Celeste Galeria (Palazzo Te, MantuaMantuaMantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole...
, 2002) - Tazio NuvolariTazio NuvolariTazio Giorgio Nuvolari was an Italian motorcycle and racecar driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante or Nivola. He was the 1932 European Champion in Grand Prix motor racing...
: Tra la Terra e il Cielo (Palazzo Te, MantuaMantuaMantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole...
, 2003) - From Chaos to Order and Back: an exhibition by FabricaFabricaFabrica is the name of several barrios in the Philippines, including in the province of Negros Occidental, in the Republic of the Philippines...
(GGG, Osaka) - Venice BiennaleVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
2005, Spanish Pavilion by Antoni MuntadasAntoni MuntadasAntoni Muntadas is a multidisciplinary, media artist, sometimes also referred to as Antonio Muntadas or, simply, Muntadas. Since 1971, he lives and works in New York. Muntadas was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,1977–1984, and is currently Visiting Professor with... - Speak Truth To Power - Italian adaptation (2004, 2006)
- Sciame 1, with Francesco Meneghini - Daydream Fields Replay Foundation, 2008) finalist at Share Prize 2009, TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...