Dave De Rose

Rome, Italy, 1994. Exposed and encouraged by a broadly artistic family, a young Dave De Rose first started making tracks on a Studio M Roland Sequencer he'd bought to practice his drums to. His studio monitoring system consisting of a junk 40W bass amp, then bouncing the material down to tapes that got played in friends cars, family home stereos and on a merry-go-round at a summer countryside fair in Collemare, L'Aquila. The tapes have long been lost but it is believed that the sound could be described as synthetic-blast-beat-jungle-core… He eventually emigrated to London to pursue his drumming career; his musical experiences leading him to work with artists such as Moloko, Roisin Murphy, Beth Orton, Ben & Jamie Cullum, Mark Ronson, Corinne Bailey Rae, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, Bastille & Andreya Triana (to name a few!). Currently he works solo as ‘Dave De Rose’ and is a core member of Electric Jalaba as well as running Agile Experiments, an International collaborative improvisational project that brings together a diverse group of artists to create innovative and boundary-pushing experiential performances.