. his true name is Marcello Cualbu, born on 1977, he defines him self a “skater”, drumplayer, graphic, video producer and musician. He started working as a vj in 2000 (he worked during the sets of Carl Craig, Kevorkian, Rainer Truby, Franklin Delano, Osram, Ferlin, Marascia, etc...) then he started playing as dj and started producing music with the alias Mantaraffu for signorafranca records (his styles are minimal, noise, concrete music and sometimes fat sounds).
He produced a videoclip for the band Osram (the track was Cavallo Goloso) and produced some short films and some documentary. Togheter with Michele Casanova ran the signorafranca netlabel in 2003, and formed the electronic band with the same name in the same year.

. mantaraffu discography

. v.a. - signorafranca compilation (LP, 2008)

. mant.01 (EP, 2004)

. covered (EP, 2004)

. quintino sella (EP, 2005)

. circo massimo (EP, 2005)

. femme fetal (EP, 2006)

. disco friends (EP,2006)

. spirritto (EP, 2007)

. jet sert (EP, 2007)

. boat (EP, 2007)

. babbone (EP, 2007)

. big bamboo discography

. the naughty version (EP, 2006)

. for info, booking and contact :

. marcello@signorafranca.com

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