Radovan Scasascia
location . London, UK
project website . dreck-records.com

Swiss born electronic musician Radovan Scasascia, who lives and works in London, trained as an architect at the ETH in Zürich. He has worked as both free lance and employed architect, before concentrating fully on electronic music, which he has been making since 1993. He founded Dreck-Records with his long-time collaborator Laurent Benner in 2000 and has been releasing music under the names Secondo and AM/PM.

Discography
AM/PM
Also (Dreck Records 010, 12”), Oct 2005
Foolish Thing To Do (Süd Electronic 005, 12”), May 2005
The Ends I & II (Dreck Records 008, CD), Oct 2004
The Ends II (Dreck Records 007, 12”), Oct 2004
The Ends (Dreck Records 005, 12”), Jan 2004

Secondo
The Night V4/Frk Dk (Dreck Records 009, 12”), June 2005
It’s Any Late Time/Discombabulate (Dreck Records 006, 12”), Aug 2004
We Got It Like That (Soul Jazz Records 9512, 12”), Sep 2004
It’s okay, I’ve overstood / I reaps what I sow (Dreck Records 004, 12”), July 2003
You’re the One / Caramel (Dreck Records 003, 12”), May 2003
Watch What You’re Saying / Libertango (Dreck Records 002, 12”), March 2003
10 tracks on Dreck/Reala Compil. (Dreck Records 001, CD), Oct June 2000

Secondo Remixes
Kammerfl immer Kollektief - Unstet [Secondo Rmx] (Staubgold), Autumn 2005
Milky Globe - The Warp & the Woof [Secondo Rmx] (LO Recordings), Autumn 2005
DJ Ali - Change [Secondo Rmx] (Sugarcane Records), May 2005
Felix Da Housecat/Harrison Crump - With You [Secondo Rmx] (Nepenta) Feb 2005
Rizzo - Microglyven [Secondo Re-Edit] (Little Big Recordings 002), Nov 2004

Earlier Projects
Avius - Magnifi quement (Plastic City, 12”), 1995
Rade - Anavirof (Tribal Sun, 12”), 1995

Secondo
Departing from existing popular songs of various origins, Secondo cuts his source material carefully into minute fragments in order to compose entirely new pieces of music – somehow maintainig the atmosphere of the original, but shifting away from it structurally and rhythmically. Until now a cross-section of genres have been visited: hip hop, disco, chanson and pop music.

Currently there are fi ve double-track twelve inch records available from Dreck-Records (DRK02/03/04/06/09), all distributed by Kompakt. Earlier works were published on the labels fi rst CD-Compilation ‘Dreck-Reala Compil’. London based ‘Soul Jazz Records’ has released the twelve inch record ‘We Got It Like That’ in 2004. Next to his own releases, Secondo has remixed various artists on labels like Staubgold, LO Recordings and others. Radovan is currently working on remixes
for different artists and on new material to be released on Dreck Records and on Soul Jazz Records.
Secondo has performed live at clubs all over the world, from Jacks in London, Mutek in Canada, Blå in Oslo, to Lethargy in Zürich among many other locations.

AM/PM
...is the second project of Radovan Scasascia on Dreck-Records. Here he introduces yet another Intriguing concept to combine popular music and conceptual composing. AM/PM’s fi rst two releases (DRK-05/07) feature tracks composed mostly of final notes and humms recorded from the ends of existing pieces of music. Again a wide selection of source material is sampled here, but unlike with Secondo’s chop-choptechnique these tracks do not refer to their source material. A melancholia and angularity runs through these tracks – once removed from their original songs, these sounds adopt a feeling of fi nality as well as endlessness. The two Mini LPs were also released together on a CD in October 2004, named ‘The Ends I & II’.

Next to his numerous Secondo gigs Radovan Scasascia recently started playing livesets of his AM/PM material, both in clubs and in gallery environments.