About Giancarlo Ranieri AKA Dj Apis
Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, Producer and DJ. Born in Cartagena - Colombia and raised in Caracas - Venezuela. Living in Belo Horizonte - Brazil since 03/2001. Working side by side with Oswaldo Rodriguez (myspace.com/surrecords), since 1999 as a singer for the "Sur" project as well as performing vocals for various TV and Radio ads produced in the Sound2 Studio, owned and directed by Rodriguez. Giancarlo has recorded in ads for companies such as Sony Entertainment Television, Lucky Strike, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Wendy's, Polar Ice, Gordon's Vodka and others. Currently singing, playing keyboards and programming sequences and beats for the brazilian band "inOrganica Sound System". Playing part of the Belo Horizonte nightlife you can hear him mix by the tag "DJ waS", playing electrorock, electroclash, jungle, hip hop and drum n bass, and sometimes as an indierock selector by the tag "Apis". He recently joined forces with the talented Musician/Designer Pedro Ivo to create SEXISTALK, an ElectroRock/Techno project. For info on that join www.myspace.com/sexistalk or www.myspace.com/giancarloranieri.

Contact:
email: giancarlo.ranieri@gmail.com
MSN: deejaywas@hotmail.com

Music, Movies, PC Stuff, Poker.

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Aerosmith, Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Sublime, Rage Against the Machine, Pantera, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Björk, Dj Patife, Public Enemy, Daft Punk, Herbie Hancock, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters...

Favorite Song:

Portishead - Roads
Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Bjork - Bachelorette
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
MSTRKRFT - Street Justice

Favorite Album: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Portishead Live At Roseland NYC
Bjork - Post
Essential Bob Dylan
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Weezer The Blue Album
Sublime 40 oz. to freedom
MSTRKRFT - The Looks

Favorite Music Video: Unkle - Rabbit in Your Headlights

Recently Listening to: MSTRKRFT, Death From Above 1979, Digitalism, Mr. Oizo, Justice, Chromeo, Kissy Sell Out, CSS, Spank Rock.

Diarios de la Motocicleta, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Stanno Tutti Bene, Needful Things, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, The Butterfly Effect, Cidade de Deus, Quanto vale ou é por quilo?, Little Nicky...

CSI, Lost, 24, The Contender.

Nietzche - ECCE HOMO; Rimbaud - UNA TEMPORADA EN EL INFIERNO, Baudelaire - LAS FLORES DEL MAL, CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), FICCI0NES (Jorge Luis Borges).

"Somos nuestra memoria, somos ese quimérico museo de formas inconstantes, ese montón de espejos rotos." (Jorge Luis Borges)

"O uisque é o melhor amigo do homem, ele é o cachorro engarrafado." (Vinicius de Moraes)