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COSTA URBANA

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June 06, 2007 08:50 AM PDT

Costa Urbana is a regular club event featuring live, dj and visual artists bringing to life a overwhelmingly lively and slightly anarchic mosaic of Med nightlife borrowing from the past, present and future of the basin's cultural heritage.

The musical orientation is embracing anything from well-researched archive gems of original recordings, to the odd 80s TV commercial tune, the rise of dub in Napoli, the mestizo music of Barcelona, the latest Turkish hip-hop from Germany while the dancefloor hours resonate to off your head flamenco funk, balkanised drum n' bass, Istanbulian groove, bouzouki discopop, Maghreb-gnawa beats, tarantella trance... Past and present regular DJs include Ed Simpson, U-Cef, Aidan Love and Nova.

Live music is an integral part of Costa Urbana and over the years many of London's new and upcoming bands have performed on our stage such as Ama, Mahjoon, Etmo, Moshikop, Lautrec, She'koyokh, Noqta, Bongo Bros, 40 Thieves Orkestar, Max Pashm, Beat Tree a.o.

The Concept
The starting point of Costa Urbana's voyage is the city by the sea, the Mediterranean metropolis, that shared vision of the modern urban mess; and that inexplicably blissful contrast one is experiencing at the edge of the city... the strict blue horizon; the port, the voyage...

It explores the beauty of the South European, Balkan, Middle Eastern and North African coast and its people. Costa Urbana aims to provide a socialising home for professionals and younger people who appreciate the seductive, wholehearted and spontaneous bar and club vibe of the Mediterranean and the Balkans; where tradition and roots in entertainment and the arts blend with the urban life realities.

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exploring the Mediterranean in sound and vision

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London-based DJ, promoter and music journalist, Massimo Terranova aka Nova is a prolific sound selector at the forefront of the ambient/electronica music scene since 2000 appearing as a resident DJ at the most notorious clubs and events in UK and abroad. His flawless mixture of ambient, world beats, IDM, downtempo and dub textures, blended in pure London's eclectic style, have made him a truly sought after talent in the eclectic DJ world: much of Nova's sets are deeper exploration of cutting edge eclectic ambient music, equally exploring the intricacies of electronic/virtual worlds and unravelling ethereal organic and meditative sound trips. This unique sound has won him guest appearances at the world's most prestigious music festivals in UK (Glastonbury, Glade, Lovebox), Germany (Voov, Lovefield), Italy (Sonica), France (Nuit Sonores), Spain (Omni), Portugal (Boom), Greece (SolaLuna), Serbia (Exit), Turkey (Soulclipse), Brazil (Celebra Brasil) and Hong Kong/Macao (Bermuda Productions). In January 2003 he signed up with Ultimae Records from Lyon, France, becoming Label DJ and International Promotion Manager. With Nova's top-notch compilation "Albedo" in 2005 Ultimae Records has cemented its place at the top of the ambient music hierarchy.

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