The Dining Rooms are Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti. They were born in 1998 from a concept by Stefano Ghittoni, who is resident DJ @ Magazzini Generali in Milan on wednsday from 1995. Cesare Malfatti is founding member of the post-blues project 'La Crus', they both come from the punk / new wave scene and they've played in several underground bands. In the beginning of 1999 the electronic label Milano 2000 releases "Subterranean Modern Volume 1": the record displays hip hop and funky rhythms flowing alongside textures of blues guitars and melancholic keyboards. Alongside with this record Stefano Ghittoni works with videomaker Maria Arena on the "Ambient Blues Caffe'" project, an ambient sonorization for turntables and videos they will bring all over Italy and as far as London, in June 2000 at 291 Gallery. The second album "Numero Deux", which features a CD Rom track with videos by Maria Arena (one of them dedicated to J.L.Godard), is released in January 2001 and it goes on from where the first record had left off, adding some jazz atmospheres and some sung parts by the minimal-soul project "Sepiatone" (Hugo Race and Marta Collica).
To promote the new record at best, The Dining Rooms have worked on a new live show named "Film". It's the natural development of "Ambient Blues Caffe'" and will feature the usual DJ sets by Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti, the live set by The Dining Rooms (computer, samplers and turntable) and the visual part by Maria Arena. In The summer of 2001(21 august)"Numero deux" will be released in U.S.A., Japan and Germany through Guidance Recordings, the album is the follow up of "The numero deux ep", a limited 12" released the second of august. "Tre", the third album released in spring 2003 on Schema Records, further deepens the themes of the two preceding albums, adding faster rhythms and increasing the number of proper songs, that are now four. The record profited from the vocal contributions by Anna Clementi and Sean Martin and the musical contributions by Soulpatrol, among the others. "Tre" was released as well as its predecessor in Germany and the US on Guidance Recordings . In the beginning of 2004 a new record is released: "Versioni Particolari" includes previously unreleased 12" remix series and is made of reworking, new versions or collaborations with cinematic soul funk dons like Nicola Conte, Soulpatrol and The Cinematic Orchestra among the others. With such an imaginative sound, it's natural that gigs are very important in TDR life. The TDR live show is based on the concept that images (by Maria Arena) can't be split from sounds coming from a 5 pieces live session and recreating imaginary landscapes. The live experience and the idea to work on songwriting become the basis for the fourth studio album, "Experiments in ambient soul", was released on May 2005. E.i.a.s. is a journey in funk and jazz and a collection of inspired and spiritual tracks featuring the contributions of Don Freeman, Amraah 8, Sean Martin, Marta Collica and Hugo Race. Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti are also involved in some side projects, with Stefano giving his touch to afro-brazilian combo Vuca and Cesare expressing his love for abstract and avant pop in Noorda. With the help of Schema, in early 2004 Stefano created a new label called Big Sur, specialized in afro-house and funky rhythms : here he releases tracks as Double Beat, another project in which he is involved as a producer with Marco Rigamonti.
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