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The
band was born in the mid 90's, although Ghigo and Enrico in
the mid- 80's were already playing in a 60's oriented
combo, The Neurotics, that eventually split up. Then
Enrico and Ghigo started playing with two new guitarists, Francesco and Max (Ghigo’s
brother), and having a great fun together they decided
to give life to THE BRADIPOS IV. From 1990 to 1995 the
band played at friends` parties, and of course is still
playing a lot at the drummer's old pad. We finally recorded
our first demotape "Sloth's Surfin' Party" and
thanks to it we had many occasions to play in contests
(Bologna, Bari, Cosenza, Ascoli). After that we recorded "Beach
Fool", our first 7", for Killyourself Punkarrecords
from Parma. You can also hear us in Go Surf!!,
a split 7" with Scriteriati, another instrumental
band from Rome; this record was released by Teen Sound
Records. In February ’99 we recorded our first CD
released by Omomusic, label based in Rome. It
was an hard work, specially if you consider the fact
that it was the first time we had to deal with a recording
studio. The main trouble was to find the right sound:
we wanted to sound like the bands on Del-Fi recordings.
However, the sound technician was very open-minded and
cared a lot about our needs (although he is an Heavy
Metal expert!!). The title of the record is "Instro-Mania",
it includes only instrumental tracks; obviously the predominant
line is surf, but there are also rock’n’roll and garage
tracks and some 60’s italian cocktails tunes (in our
intensions!); the record is composed by 14 tracks including
two cover, Work Song (Challengers` version) and Carmela
(a neapolitan classic from Sergio Bruni), and was released
in the first days of April by the above mentioned Omom
Music. If you want to know which tracks we reckon the
best, in our opinion they are definitely Work Song, Carmela,
Dirty-Phonic and Forbidden Island; however, we think
that the listener’s judgement is better than ours. Surely,
using the Farfisa Compact in almost all tracks added
a special sound. In the last year we played at some other
contests like the Beat Festival in Piacenza and
the Bus-One 60’s Party in Pavia; moreover we opened
for The
Boss Martians and Chocolate
Watchband in Rome and for Link Protrudi in
Naples. We have been listening to Surf, Garage and Italian
Beat and in general to all the sixties oriented music
since around a decade. Although we have precise musical
tastes, we are curious and not closed to other musical
genres (apart from Heavy Metal, of course!!!). Our brains
are boiling for the Del-Fi and Hot Rod sound, Strummin'
Mental and Diggin' Out, even for Jungle Exotica,
Las Vegas Grind and Link Wray,but at the same
time we like a lot of "modern" surf bands like
Man Or Astro - Man ?, Phantom Surfers, Satan's Pilgrims,
Finks and also European and Italian bands like Flashback
V,Doctor Explosion,Petrifieds, Gravestones, Heads & the
Hares, Others, Tijuana Tex & the Cowbones, Vice Barons, and
many more. Recently, some of our tracks were released
on:"That's New Pussycat- Surf Tribute To Burt
Bacharach!", a compilation by Om Omusic; "Themes
For Bathing Beauties And Woodies",a compilation
by Teen Sound Records; and finally a Surf Tribute To
Booker T & the MG's, on Wildebeest Records.
In March 2001 the band record the soundtrack to the short
indie movie "Blue Panthers" directed by Giancarlo
Mazzaro now being distributed in France. In April 2001
the Bradipos IV are contacted by dutch tour promoter
Arnold Vinkeles and set off on their first foreign tour.
The main cities of the tour are: Arnhem, Dessau, Leipzig,
Nürnberg, Dresden, Kassel and others. In July of the
same year the group are the opening act in the first
edition of the "Beat Fever Festival" in
Verona organized by "The Fog Surfers" with
bands like Lighting Beat Man and the Miracle Workers.
At the beginning of November they play themselves in
some scenes of "L 'Imbalsamatore"" by
emerging director Matteo Garrone. The movie, produced
by Fandango Films, includes musical tracks from the official
soundtrack. Due out are another two tracks on the compilations "American
Graffiti. A surf tribute" by OmOm Records and "For
A Few Guitars More - A tribute to Morricone's Spaghetti
Western Themes" for the american label
of Larry White. This comp includes tracks by the best
bands of the international surf scene like: Man or Astroman,
Davie Allan, Bambi Molesters, Penetrators ,Cadillac Hitmen,
50 Foot Combo, Hellbenders, Los Relampagos, Irreversible
Slacks, Langhorns, MiGs, Pollo del Mar and others. On
December 2004 will be out two new records:a tribute
to Richie Allen, a new compilation from Golly
Gee Records with bands like The Hypnotic IV, The Waistcoats,
John Blair, The Eliminators, The Aqua Velvets, The Chocolate
Watchband and more..., in this comp the band plays the
song "Room 304"; On February 2005 the band
present "Surf Session", the new full lenght
album from the Teen Sound Records.
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