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Massimo Santucci discovered his passion for drums as a teenager; he played in many crossover and jazz-fusion bands up until the age of twenty. After a move from Italy (his birthplace) to Germany, in the early nineties, he was overcome by the huge techno scene there and started producing his first Techno-Trance and Acid tracks under the name of “Analogue Dream” on several compilations. At the turn of the Millennium, after his own artist album “Massimo Santucci – Al Dente” and his project “Prototyp – Phantom” in cooperation with Linus Wessel (Trasis) he reached world wide recognition and had a big success with his live acts all over the world.

 

After a creative break at the end of 2003 he came back in 2005 with a new style, new potential, new ideas and began to produce with Thimo U. Seidel on several projects, e.g. Mashup Kids and Tribalism. In the meantime Massimo meet the sound freak Markus Zeidler aka DJ aMaZe. When it comes to sound they complement one another and so they started-up the project Maxrage & aMaZe, wherewith they released some productions on Beatfreak Records/Spain, Progrez/Banshee and Trust Your Tribe.

The first highlight after his creative break was surely the international acclaimed remix of Rachael Starr’s track “Crash” (Played by Roger Sanchez and appeared in all relevant Dance Chars in the USA), followed from the huge remix for  “Sergio D’angelo & Andrea LoveCan’t live without your groove” that was also played in heavy rotation by Roger Sanchez in his set’s and radio shows including the Essential Mix on BBC Radio One.

 

In 2009 he started the new Tech House Projekt “Jackus&Santucci” with his mate Mark Jackus. Their production earn a lot of respect from some biggies and has been supported around the world from dj’s like Super Flu, Tomcraft, Tom Pooks, Martin Eyerer, Oliver Klein and many more..

Currently Massimo also had big international success as solo artist. His Releases and Remixes came out on Labels such as, Blufin, Time Rec, Enormous Tunes, Timbee, Flashover Rec. “Strings of Caesar” was even supported by Moguai and appeared on his Compilation “Punx up the Volume” on Ministry of Sound.

In 2011 he fulfilled himself a dream as musician. Tony Esposito – Italy’s most famous and successful percussionist has approved the processing of his big hit “Kalimba de Luna“. He worked back to back with this great musicians and the result has been released on one of the most wanted Dutch label Spinnin’ Records.

With new signings on Juicy Music, Massimo is looking forward to provide some serious tunes in 2012

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