Sottotono

Biography

"The Undertone is a pair formed from Fish and Tormento.
They are formed in 1994, esordiscono on the compilation ""Been born for Rappare"" (Flying Records), and publish to year-end Above all their first album ""Under"" (Vox POP).
She is not only the critic ""illuminated"" to notice of their value, but also the radios, that they make of the brano ""mine coccinella"" one of the most transmitted than that period.
""Under Effect Stono"" (Wea - 1996) it is their according to album, influenced from atmospheres musical of the West Coast Rap (Dr.Dre, Snoop Doggy Dog, Warren G., Bone Thugs N' Harmony...), made of rhythms discs of a valve, agreements of extraction ""soul"", sintetizzatori and sinuose melodie, dealt and rimodellate with originality to accompany Italian scaltri and immediate witnesses, often sings to you, than snodano with disinvoltura on the bases. A style that is hundreds for one hundred hip hop.
First the single one of ""the Calm"" album, winning danced song of love sottoforma of funk, is endured entered in the playlist of the more important radios.
""Only it has those that I want"" and the third single ""mistaken Dimmi of that there is"", they confirm the happened one of the group, than with this album she sells more than 200.000 copies.
In the summer of 1998 the pair recovers to the job in order to produce the third party lp, publicato from the Wea in January of the ' 99, from the title it ""Under the same effect"". The bases of pieces, produced from Fish, demonstrate, beyond to the maturity caught up from the group, a search that goes al.di.là.dell' hip hop as it had been meant till now in Italy, bearing away from every possible comparison with other musical truths presents in our country.
""Under the same effect"" to a week from the escape place has entered directly to the quarter in classifies more of the single album sold and ""the Amor de me vida"", and ""Never more"" (that it sees the participation of Shola Ama) confirm new silks sonorità of the network wireless that immediately insert pieces in high spin.
2001 - The Undertone returns with two new brani ""To love, To respect to you"", and subsequently ""Average Truth to you"", (introduced to the Festival di Sanremo).
March 2001 - It comes published the new album ""... In Theory "", (Wea - 2 March 2001).
January 2003 - It comes published ""VENDESI"": The first one best for the rap-band Italian of the Undertone produced from Fish.
' VENDESI' contains: three unknown brani ""(Six you) that they give i"" (first single one to me extracted), ""you have given life"" and ""Vendesi to Me"", and fifteen successes of Tormento & Fish (""Dimmi of mistaken that there is "", ""Only she has those that I want"", ""Amor de me vida"", ""Never more"" and many others...) that they reassume the career of the two artists hip hop.