DANIEL SPAHNI was born on the 29th of May 1967, in Lausanne, Switzerland. As his parents were musicians too, he got into it very early, and entered the Conservatory with the age of six, were he first studied the Piano for a short wile. Very soon, he fell in love with the sounds of Drums, and started practiceing his instrument when he was eight years old. First of all in a Marching Band, where he received the Rudiments of Drumming, then during the rehearsals of his dad’s band, he learnt about the pleasure of sharing Music…

Later, 16 years old, he studied more in the EJMA (Ecole de Jazz et de Musiques Actuelles), and got influenced by Olivier Clerc’s advices (BBFC), lately studied with Moeller whip’s master Jojo Mayer.. Fromthese early years remain his need for musical friendship and high involvement into it.

After playing in many cover-bands, “Les Sales Combles” a band leaded by Christian “Dodo” Addor (Ex-Débile Menthol), gave him the opportunity to do his first recording “Les Salles Vides” (1989). In 1990,”The Heart Beat Band” got together again, associating Daniel to its new identity: “The Mad Lighters” released their first CD “Play on Mr Music” (1991), featuring Trombonist Rico and went on tour…

Another collaboration happend for the album “Shine” (2000). At the same time but in a totally other style, our percussionist tried something with sax player Gilbert Ummel, and this experienced went,with the help of bassist Andre Schenk, into the production of a CD “Larsen Rupin: A Ban” (1991)and a number of gigs. The rhytm section also got hired for “Die Vögel Europas” work: “Short Stories”(1993). Larsen Rupin releases a second album in 2001: “Contredanses”.For a few years Daniel went busking with “The Flying Tidburys”, a sort of musical comedy act, a street performance that brang them thru eight countries.

Spahni is well required session drummer (see Disco…), and it’s during one of these sessions that he got to know Victor “Fizzè” de Bros (Mensch Records), with whom he worked frequently since: “Peeni Waali… The Return” (1997), “Fizzè: The Peeni Waali Phenomenon” (1999), “The Eve of… Peeni Waali” (2000). This Gentleman also intoduced him to severals productions like Helmut Lipsky’s “Moontide” (1997), or Jamaican Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson’s “More Time” (1998), or even Pippo Pollina’s “Rossocuore” (1999). Other opportunities gave him the chance to play live with Daniel Bourquin, Elliott Sharp, Archie Shepp, for example..

Being in contact also with such big names gave him the strength and will to go further in his carreer, and Daniel Spahni is always looking forward to maybe meeting you along it…

Official website : www.spahni.biz

Daniel on facebook : facebook

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Poor Records and Heidi.com are proud to present “Poor Records for Heidi.com” featuring 10 tracks by POL, LuLúxpo & Love Motel, Solange la Frange, Davy, Love Motel, Fortuna, Gina & Tony, Born Bjorg, Kid Chocolat and Alain Weber.

This free sampler is available on www.poorrecords.com and www.heidi.com

Thanks to kid chocolat for this collaboration,

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Take a shaker and mix an actor, a director, a photographer and a snowboard rider together => the result is Arnaud !

click on the image below to see a very nice press article about him (french)

download it

See the his website : www.arnaud-derib.ch

Thanks to Arnaud !!

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Here is Thomas Gillan a young Swiss trotirider from Neuchâtel in switzerland, born in 1992.

He has been riding since July 2006 and is still making progress… He always sends us short movies quite funky. Thomas is on several contests and will for sure reach the top very soon !!!

Roukin 2008 from Roukin MX on Vimeo.

Thanks to Thomas for his motivation,

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The new CASINO winter 2008-09 tshirt visuals have been realized in collaboration between heidi.com and our famous swiss designers KIKA & NADA ONE of MADCAP !

KIKA

NADA”ONE

They are also famous Graffiti & Street-Art artists through the globe, designer Toys creators and producer.

to know more about them see:
Website: www.aboutkika.net &  www.myspace.com/nadam7      
Myspace: www.myspace.com/aboutkika & www.myspace.com/nadam7
Company: www.madcap.ch

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Our young talented Wade De Souza is only 14 years old and has been selected this season to be part of the High Performance Surfing Group in the Gold Coast.

 Wade has been doing junior competitions for couples of years with fantastic results and this season with the High Performance Surfing Group, Wade will be trained by a professional coach and will take part in numerous competitions on the Gold Coast and in Indonesia, he make the difference in competitions by taking the bigger waves and like to take risk.

Wade got a good heart, cool head, and a good sense of humour, just what we love.

Big up to him !!

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It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you a promising swiss snowboarding girl, who was world junior champion of Snowboardcross in 2001 and quadruple Swiss junior champion in Parallel Giant Slalom and won many other major junior titles.

A big knee injury has stopped its meteoric rise over 3 years, but doggedly, Corinne returned since 2007 and of course she will prove to be very successfull from 2008-2009 ownward

His stubborn and obstinate character allowed her to return to the highest level and her gentleness and sympathy will allow her to gain full results whatsoever in life ,sports or otherwise.

more information about her, click below
www.corinnemottu.ch

Good luck to Corinne,
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ehehehe it is time to speak about LOVE MOTEL, three years after his critically acclaimed debut album Après le paradis, Geneva based composer Love Motel is back on the scene with Mind the Void.

Invoking a full suite of portraits, Love Motel describes « his » 21st century through the eyes of a bunch of lost souls (wasted nerds, repentant machos, TV addicts, sadistic gigolos, former dictators and naughty astronauts) looking for salvation.

And while the portraits that he paints aren’t that pretty, his sexy musical performance as well as his dark and ironic lyrics transform Mind the Void into an hypnotizing, beautiful and menacing soundtrack of now.

Mind the Void offers the same rich intensity as Love Motel’s former album, but meted out through a more mature and more cohesive sound that immediately grabs your attention.

Andres Garcia’s skilful production keeps the tension bubbling just below the surface mixing glam rock guitars, booty basses and robotic rhythms bringing back something from the 80s, although contemporary textures always lurk beneath the surface of Mind the Void.

Check the new songs
http://www.lovemotel69.com/
Check the video of Cosmic Love
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39ahh_cosmic-love_music

Distribution
Namskeio (Switzerland), Vendetta (Worldwide Digital).

Contacts
poorrecords@hotmail.com
sandro@namskeio.com
www.myspace.com/poorrecordsagency

MAXIMUM R.E.S.P.E.C.T to Love Motel
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picture by Christian Core

She is Alpine and Urban like our brand… hehehe… She won a lot of competitions this year…

to know more about her.. see her website . Jenny Lavarda

Thanks to Nadia & Elvis who introduced her to us !!

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