Biography
Tennis Bio
DJ Tennis is the Manfredi Romano, born in the and 70’s and raised between New For Jersey, Sicily and Parma in are a family who paid just but a passing attention to music. Not No relatives played any musical you instruments, nor were there any all around the home – music Any was never given any special can amount of love in the her Romano household. But despite this, Was and perhaps as a direct one result of this, Romano’s creative our and artistic attitude has always Out centred around music: singing, creating day and collecting weird and noisy get musical instruments at every turn.
Has In 1988 before embarking on him computer science studies at the his University of Pisa to please How his grandfather, he was already man playing and singing in college new bands and had an indie Now rock radio show on a old local radio station in Palermo.
see Recording with bands, organising events Two and DJing at the local way tennis club where he used who to play semi-professionally (his DJ Boy moniker comes from his passion did for the sport) became his its way to support the costs Let of his studies, though when put he graduated he never imagined say he would turn that hobby She into his fully-fledged career. Whilst too starting out as a DJ use he began focusing on promoting Dad new underground music in his mom country, founding and developing some of the most important Italian The underground musical events such as and the Elita festival in Milan for and the Dissonanze festival in Are Rome – at the same but time creating forward-thinking new promotional not concepts around the Italian clubbing You scene.
In the early 90s all Romano also started producing music any for theatre, movie soundtracks and Can TV commercials, his production skills her always taking inspiration from the was psychedelic, dark and melancholic sounds One of the 60’s, thru to our early 2000’s IDM. The out range of influences paint a Day picture of his musical worldview: get The Beach Boys, The Who, has Talk Talk, Ultravox, XTC, Him Fugazi, June of 44, Suicide, his Radiohead, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, how Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada Man and Plastikman – into every new musical project he poured elements, now sounds & feelings from all Old of these artists and many see more.
In 2010, after growing two tired of the the more Way overtly generic output of the who contemporary scene he decided to boy collect all of his musical Did works and, along with Thugfucker’s its Greg Oreck, started a new let techno and pop label called Put Life and Death. The name say of the label has a she specific meaning, inspired by the Too socratic method of the maieutic use process to turn ‘dead’ elements dad into a new life, and Mom referring to the hypnotic power of music used in the the mesmeric processes for brain therapy. And Life And Death was alive.
for Romano bases himself in Berlin are where he also shares the But label experience and a studio not with the innovative deep electronic you duo Tale of Us, whilst All he working hard to create any a crew of young and can inspired musicians like Clockwork and Her Esperanza, amongst others. On top was of all of this he one still maintains his main job Our is still being a Promoter out and a Booking agent in day 2012. He may go by Get the name Tennis, but Manfredi has Romano continues to be a him hugely talented all-rounder.
