Artist info

Genre

Dance, Electronic, Hip Hop, Indie

band members

Spike Punch, Vincent D (aka Frankie Topaz) , Shidi Amin (aka Sideboard Ford), Cavallo Nero (aka Hornelle Equinox) and Shattered Guru (aka Jingle Bellow aka The Best of the Berries aka Jingler of Truth).

Website

soundcloud.com/totalgiovanni

Bio

Total Giovanni is an experience. It is a feeling. It is the most sexually charged discothèque this side of the tropic of Capricorn. Earning notoriety from their visually unique and highly energetic live shows Total Giovanni create dance music to enable collective psychic liberation. With sets that move from smooth boogie to shamanic disco and heartbreak house, TG have built a reputation on whipping small music venues into wild bacchanalian frenzies. Now they seek to bring their poly-rhythmic jams, strange clothing and liberated masculinity in to your living room with a record release imminent on visionary Melbourne label Two Bright Lakes. With a host of festival and club shows on the horizon this summer, Total Giovanni are sure to be making the walls sweat somewhere near you. Free yourself...

Featured Artist

2015

5

Jan

Total Giovanni

Melbourne, VIC

Total Giovanni is an experience. It is a feeling. It is the most sexually charged discothèque this side of the tropic of Capricorn.

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Tell us about your music. How did you develop your sound?
We play music that sort of spans aspects of disco, house, and new wave as well as taking elements of bygone pop. We spent many years playing records at house parties slowly working out what kinds of sounds fill dance-floors. I think our sound kind of reflects the breadth and mish-mash of our record collection. 
 
What’s your greatest source of inspiration for making music?
Other people making great music. Discovering great music that has already been made.
 
What can punters expect from a Total Giovanni live show?
Strange attire. Erotic dancing. Partial nudity. Five people having a really good time.
 
What’s the best advice you’ve been given and who was it from?
"Don't be so reckless..." James Reyne
 
What Australian track would you play to cheer up someone who was crying?
 
What Australian track would you play to someone to make them cry?
 
You’re the DJ at a party. The dance floor is pumping. What Australian track do you put on next?
Yothu Yindi- Treaty (Filthy Lucre Mix). Classic early 90's dance track. 25 years on and the message is as powerful and pressing as it ever was. RIP Mandawuy Yunupingu.
 
What was the last local gig you went to? How was it?
Sleep D kill it. Frankston represent. 
 
Tell us about the bands or people in the Melbourne music community that inspire you.
In terms of live show, Eddy Current Suppression Ring had a huge impact on us all growing up.  We used to all go to every gig back in the very early days. Brendon always gave a good lesson in 'shut the fuck up and watch this'. Its a book we read from to this day. 
 
What are your plans for 2015?
We have a few more shows and festivals lined up this summer, then we want to get out of town to finish off some new material and do some recording. We also need to create some new outfits and buy another synth or two. Stay tuned for some truly deep Giovanni later this year...
 

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Paradise

Total Giovanni

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Review by Max Quinn Max Quinn

08 Apr 2015

Triple J
40

3:09 PM, Wednesday 8th April. Party at Max's desk. I don't usually go for six minute funk odysseys, but this is easy to get lost in.

3:09 PM, Wednesday 8th April. Party at Max's desk. I don't usually go for six minute funk odysseys, but this is easy to get lost in.

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Can't Control My Love

Total Giovanni

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Review by Al Newstead Al Newstead

23 Jan 2015

Triple J
40

Looks like Client Liaison have got some (friendly) competition! Instead of mining kitsch Australiana, they're drawing Itali-disco gold and throwing some razor sharp shapes on this slinky slice of synth-house. Piano breaks and lounge lizard humour? I can't control my love.

Looks like Client Liaison have got some (friendly) competition! Instead of mining kitsch Australiana, they're drawing Itali-disco gold and throwing some razor sharp shapes on this slinky slice of synth-house. Piano breaks and lounge lizard humour? I can't control my love.

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Can't Control My Love

Total Giovanni

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Review by Declan Byrne Declan Byrne

10 Dec 2014

Triple J
40

another one that makes me annoyed i wore jeans and a long sleeved shirt to the party. extra sweaty when that piano sneaks its way in. i knew i should have turned up in disco ball budgie smugglers.

another one that makes me annoyed i wore jeans and a long sleeved shirt to the party. extra sweaty when that piano sneaks its way in. i knew i should have turned up in disco ball budgie smugglers.

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