Music producer by vocation, I create original music, exclusive beats and custom sounds. I believe in authenticity, originality, research. I take care of both the sound and visual aspects of productions. The time spent in the studio is essential for the research of particular samplings, atypical sound treatments and experimental languages that give unique results.
My style is the result of various listening and djing experiences, which range across various genres. Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Drum&Bass, Ambient, Dub, Electronica, Alternative are colors of a palette that are mixed each time in a different way, to communicate personal emotions and experienced sensations.
I began my musical journey in 1995 as Dj Gino Tonico and then beatmaker in an experimental Hip-Hop duo, immersed between vinyls and samplers.
In the 2000s I founded CafeAudio with Bob Rifo of The Bloody Beetroots, a Trip-Hop / Drum & Bass project, and made up an R&B/Funk project with guitarist Lino Brotto. In 2009, Gino Tonico’s remix of Nina Simone was hailed by British comedian Marcus Brigstocke as “a slice of sacrilegious excellence”.
In the 2010s I produced my first concept album under the pseudonym Abscience, co-produced The White Screamed Shout and founded the label Echoscope Records, to compose electronic music for images with other artists.
In 2020 I partecipated to the foundation of a music production studio called Bottega Sonora.
DISCOGRAPHY REVIEWS
LA VOCE DEL CAMPIONE – LA VOCE DEL CAMPIONE [INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION, 1998]
GINO TONICO – “DIRTY TRAIN TRIP” [INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION, 2000]
CAFEAUDIO – “CAFEAUDIO EP” WITH BOB RIFO OF THE BLOODY BEETROOTS [WITHIN RECORDS, UK, 2004]
GINO TONICO – “FEELING GOOD” [REMIX OF NINA SIMONE, INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION, 2011]
THE WHITE SCREAMED SHOUT – “THE BIRTH EP” WITH JACK MOSTRO [INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION, 2012]
ABSCIENCE – “DECADE IN DREAD” WITH MAURO MARTINUZ [INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION, 2015]