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Eiffel 65 was an Italienne electronic/ three-piece group, formed in the late 1990s and best known for their international hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". Their other hit singles include "Move Your Body" and "Too Much of Heaven", all of which appeared on their debut album Europop, released in late 1999. The name "Eiffel" was chosen randomly by a computer program and the "65" was scribbled onto their name on a demo by mistake; it was actually part of a phone number. Eiffel 65 achieved rare success in the US. Their debut single became a top ten hit and their album a top five placing and sold over two million units. No other Italian pop or dance group before or since has ever achieved such sales in the USA.

Their second album Contact! was released in 2001 and whilst it did not sell as well as Europop, it did enjoy a fair share of success in Europe. The group continued to enjoy success in their native Italy with such songs as "Viaggia Insieme a Me", "Voglia di Dance All Night", and "Cosa Resterà". In 2003, Eiffel 65 released a self-titled album, mainly in Italian.

Eiffel 65 also made thirty remixes of tracks by other artists (like S Club 7's hit single "Reach") between 1999 and 2002 and in early 2006 a remix of Yo Yo Mundi's "L'Ultimo Testimone".

In early March 2005 the group's DJ, Gabry Ponte, left the group to be able to focus on his solo career. It seems that he got bored walkin' 2 sides of  the street and wanted to finish it. Make it dissappear. It was a rigid stroke to all the fans of E65. But all that  cuts was just ahead .

On May 16, 2006, the remaining two members, Maurizio Lobina and Jeffrey Jey, left Bliss Corporation to continue on their own with their own production company. Since the name "Eiffel 65" is property of Bliss Corporation, the duo has decided to continue under a new name.

Eiffel 65's long anticipated fourth album, under the working title 'Crash Test', had already finished production by the time of Maury's and Jeffrey's departure from Bliss Corporation, and has been released. The album's lyrics are in both English and Italian.

In June 2006, it was announced that Eiffel 65's new name would be Bloom 06. The first album "Crash Test 01", originally to be Eiffel 65's fourth album titled "Crash Test", was released on October 13, 2006. The debut single, which will be on air from September 2006, will be "In the City" of which an instrumental version featured (as "Living in my City") on the Special Edition of Eiffel 65's third album. Bloom 06's first single "In The City" became available for radio airplay on September 1st, 2006. The Second single was "Per Sempre" with 2 versions of a song "Per Sempre" and  dance-floor version of "The Crash" from the album "Crash Test 01". The third version of "Per Sempre' made by Oliver V (an acompanion who works with Maury And Jeffrey)  is available for all who has an access to italian Itunes. For the others is just to envy and enjoy the CD-Single :)

Maurizio Lobina

 

I believe that writing about myself is not very correct, honestly I would have preferred that someone else would have done it". 

 

But I also believe that it’s right, and hope interesting, to entertain all the people that hunt for Eiffel 6, all of those that live our music with passion and of you reading now that will believe, thanks to a real story,” a dream can come true”.My name is Maurizio Lobina, nick Name “ Maurizio Lobina”, born in Asti on the 30th of October 1973.  

 

A nice sunny day in the year 1978 my mother asked me if I would be interested in attending piano lessons. The faster ones probably understood that I was five at that time and how can a five year old kid understand if he wants to attend Classic piano lessons? The only thing I can say is that I decided to do it cause I dreamed of becoming some kind of Bruno Martelli, the piano player of Fame.

I was almost 10 when I first played the piano in front of a crowd, playing 2 classic songs “Per Elisa” by Beethoven and one of his greatest songs “Adagio al Chiaro di luna”

 

After 9 years of playing Classic piano songs, Waltzes and Minuets, I got a little tired of it all even because I had a great hype for Pop, Disco and Dance music of the time. Weird enough to believe, these new tunes made those classic artists look dull and grey, but unfortunately no one at that age has the proper maturity to understand what those geniuses (it’s the only word that can get close enough to describe what I think of those artists) created. So there I go leaving my Classic Piano studies and off to playing something written by someone that wasn’t dead for more than 20 years....

During my first years of Hi school my hobby kept swinging for Classic music to Contemporary music. After a few Jazz and Blues lessons I started playing with some of the bands of my town.

 

My fist experience in a band was a pure disaster! Thanks to my Classic piano lessons I was technically able to play anything but only if written on a music sheet.In other words if you would close the music sheets the piano would turn into a construction of wood made by a pop art sculptor.

 

Not everybody knows that the most common way of bands to get started is to play Covers of other artists (obviously) using those little books bought in a music shop as a reference where you would find the chords and the lyrics written on top. Talking about “Chords”… who in the world had ever heard this word before in 9 years of classic piano studies? Surely not me!

 

Let’s start with the boring stuff: My real name is Gianfranco Randone and I was born in a small town in Sicily on the 5th of January 1970 from pure Sicilian Parents. So this makes me pretty much a Sicilian I guess. Lucky to say that I was born in a family of musicians, as a matter of fact My Daddy was a guitar and keyboard player. Thanks to this I first walked a stage at the age of one and a half during one of my fathers concerts. I can’t remember the exact feeling I got but if I’m in the music business today than something surely hit me when I was on that stage. At the age of 2 my parents decide to move, boy did they take that seriously, they headed for the United states of America, I was just a little too young to pop up and say “oh well, I think I’ll pass on this one”. So there I was, a small Sicilian kid in New York City.  

Some of the signs I had of wanting to be a musician came to me when I was really young. I can’t forget how much fun I used to have jumping on the couch faking to play the guitar to a Rod Stewart song “Do you think I’m Sexy”. To think of it today, I don’t even think there is a guitar part in that song. Well, I was seven at that time and I still remember my poor doggy Rocky that had to listen to me brag in my attempt to sing. Here comes some of the juice:

 

One important thing I remember is my first encounter with a computer: Love at first sight. I have to thank my history classes for this since that I was very unhappy to be there I would have done anything to get out of there. So, this man walks into the classroom and says “there’s a new class for those that want to learn about what the future generations will work with. As you can imagine I was the first to go.

 

At the age of 13 I moved back to Italy with my parents, As I said, When they decide to move is has to always be the other side of the globe.

 

After different failed attempts to attend guitar classes and making my father go nuts over the years to get me into music seriously, I finally got it straight. At the age of 15 I had seen people make songs with computers. So there was the missing link to music, computers. I didn’t know much at the time so I started to read everything I could find about the subject. How I got into singing is really curios. I was singing a George Michael song “Careless Whispers” wit my headphones on and a Girlfriend of mine was sitting there stunned like never before. So I asked why and she said I had a good voice. It took her 2 months to convince me to put my voice on a tape and when my dad heard it he almost killed for not letting him know before that I had a so called VOICE. Honestly, I didn’t know either :0)  

 

So my dad and I made a deal, he would by me a Keyboard when he would see me play well. I took classes for 3 months and when I played for him and the keyboard was home none of us knew where all of this was leading.

 

In the mean time I lived normally just like everyone else. I remember the name of my fist Italian girlfriend “Patrizia” And how funny it was when I broke my nose while riding with her on my motorbike at the age of 16.

 

I was a teenager during the 80’s and I still love listening to some of the bands that have been my inspiration as a kid. Bands like Depeche mode, U2, Duran Duran, Rick Astley, George Michael and many more. Pretty strange that a pop music lover started listening to Rock and Rap thanks to his American background. Well this can only mean that I was in love with music no matter where it came from and who played it. My first band came along in my late 17, the name was ICU. We already had a computer driving 2 keyboards and a drum machine, boy was it hard to program!! There was no doubt , music and technology for me were always to go hand in hand. I had travelled in those years looking for someone that would believe in the music I was making and hopefully would open a door to professional music working for me. In the year 1992 I decided to take a vacation to visit a girl I had met that summer and it sure was my lucky year (cause I had decided to not take a tape with my music). In a music instrument store The Clerk, curios of the questions I was asking him, asked me what music style I played. There it was, my lucky star. I met Massimo Gabutti, General manager of Bliss Corporation. Starting of as The Singer of Bliss Team, known for hits like People have the power and You make me cry, I’ve been in the business every since. Then the final stage, the year 1999 and a song called Blue hits the charts. There we with a band riding on a hit so big to move us around for 18 months non stop.

 From there on, it’s history.

Hi my name is Gabriele, I was born in Torino on the 20th of April 1973.

 

 I’m the Eiffel 65 DJ. In fact, my musical carrier starts from the Discos… At the age of 17 I started working as a DJ is some of the Discos in my home city; almost as a joke in the beginning, to discover that world made of music that hypnotized me…. Later on, I got more and more into it until I convinced myself that what I thought was a “week end Hobby” could have become a real job. To answer the question; when did I come up with the idea of getting my own record on the market… Well I started collaborating with other people that hade the same dream I had, Music!

 

To honestly answer the question when did it come to my mind to try and make a record, I would surely have quit a hard time answering that. I think that none of us has ever woke up one morning and sad “ ok I think I’ll become a Producer” or to hit the charts and sell millions of copies. I remember getting to Bliss thanks to the fact that I brought over some demos (that I probably wouldn’t have the guts to listen to today) and I was so lucky to meet so many others with a great passion for Music.

 

One of the important projects I worked on is DaBlitz that has surely been my work out 360’ degrees. In fact it has been important for starting with the creative process that gives birth to a song all the way to the finalizing process and the release of the track.  

 

What Massimo, our producer, has taught us goes way beyond the use of the machines and computers to write music, learning this is just a matter of time and experience… being a producer is surely something else.  

 

In these eight years of work in Bliss Co. I’ve probably worked on more than 100 productions, some worked out better than others, but each one of them has taught me something and most of all the experience that improved also my work as a DJ.

 

A DJ always has a direct contact with his crowd that is the heart of the music style we work with… like a good musician should be capable of hearing an out of tune note a good DJ should be very good in understanding what people will probably like to dance to and most of all to turn this feeling into reality with his music productions.