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Nicola Conte is a DJ and producer from Bari, Italy known for introducing an innovative style of acid jazz that incorporates bossa nova themes, melodies drawn from Italian film scores of the 1960’s, easy listening themes, and ethnic Indian music.

Conte, a classically-trained musician, is mastermind of a collective of acid jazz revivalists, “The Fez collective” (and originally a member of the group Fez Combo), based in the Italian town of Bari, and the Schema label, their record label for promoting their distinctly Italian approach to acid jazz.

Conte’s first album was Jet Sounds of 2000. The single “Bossa Per Due” gained international recognition and was an underground hit. It was used almost immediately for a prime-time commercial for Acura automobiles. The album was licensed for American distribution by Thievery Corporation’s Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL) label in the summer of 2001 as Bossa Per Due, and was slightly reconfigured version of the Italian Jet Sounds album. This was followed by the Jet Sounds Revisited remix album in late 2002. Two years later, Blue Note’s French subsidiary released Conte’s next album Other Directions.

Conte also produced albums by other artists such as Paolo Achenza Trio.

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2	Missione A Bombay	573
3	Arabesque	521
4	Il Cerchio Rosso	313
5	Die Falschen Freunde - Dorr (Via Di Qui)	179
6	Karma Flower full track	151
7	A Time For Spring	145
8	Sea And Sand	124
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10	Like Leaves In The Wind full track	120
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Hose_Jero wrote:
26 days ago

Nicola Conte rules! Beautiful music...

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carrie86 wrote:
26 days ago

he was born in my City!!grazie nicola per la tua musica!

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LondonLouis wrote:
last month

I like what I've heard of Nicola. As a pure matter of curiosity is Nicola male or female? I'm hearing a female voice, but the pictures at the top look masculine - while the biography seems to be written without any real personal details. Obviously, this doesn't matter one iota to my musical enjoyment, but I'm naturally curious.

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svetik_popova wrote:
last month

u do magic music))) so sensitive and beautyful. thanks from ukraine.

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rodanside wrote:
October 2009

"Rituals" is beautiful

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nemis123 wrote:
October 2009

thank you for wonderful concert at wroclaw

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claudia_l wrote:
September 2009

the hotel costes g r o u p >> similar tunes; free downloads | full tracks :)

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chumijazz wrote:
September 2009

Música COOL, que sutileza, que gusto de combinación de sonidos y ritmos!!!!

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dj-grial wrote:
July 2009

I love this music, if you do too please check my website where you can find more of this kind of music. This is dj grial I am specialized in lounge downtempo, trip hop, lo-fi, latin lounge music. http://www.djgrial.com

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SrTorJohnson wrote:
June 2009

Impresionante

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fakszirak wrote:
May 2009

klasa !

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sweetoothnite wrote:
May 2009

fantastic..

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ntakeda wrote:
April 2009

bossa per due :D

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BVZMirko wrote:
March 2009

Bossa per Due è fantastico. UN capolavoro

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J-nu wrote:
March 2009

bossa electro jazz...nice music for beach resort

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insomniatr wrote:
March 2009

bossa per due!!!amazingggg

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brainvision wrote:
March 2009

Anche se è una parola che ho sempre sempre odiato con tutto me stesso.. Nicola Conte è trooppo coool!!

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March 2009

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MinisterZdrowia wrote:
February 2009

Here you can find polish review of last album by Nicola : http://www.infomusic.pl/recenzje_wiecej.php?id_rec=1832&n=rituals-nicola_conte

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taconde wrote:
February 2009

adorei!

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