Dining Rooms Electronica / Trip Hop The Dining Rooms are Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti. They were born in 1998 from a concept by Stefano Ghittoni, who is resident DJ @ Magazzini Generali in Milan on wednsday from 1995. Cesare Malfatti is founding member of the post-blues project 'La Crus' (www.lacrus.com), they both come from the punk / new wave scene and they've played in several underground bands. In the beginning of 1999 the electronic label Milano 2000 (www.ishtar.it) releases 'Subterranean Modern Volume 1': the record displays hip hop and funky rhythms flowing alongside textures of blues guitars and melancholic keyboards. Alongside with this record Stefano Ghittoni works with videomaker Maria Arena on the " Ambient Blues Caffè project, an ambient sonorization for turntables and videos they will bring all over Italy and as far as London, in June 2000 at 291 Gallery. The second album 'Numero Deux', which features a CD Rom track with videos by Maria Arena (one of them dedicated to J.L.Godard), is released in January 2001 and it goes on from where the first record had left off, adding some jazz atmospheres and some sung parts by the minimal-soul project "Sepiatone" (Hugo Race and Marta Collica). To promote the new record at best, The Dining Rooms have worked on a new live show named ' Film It's the natural development of 'Ambient Blues Caffè' and will feature the usual DJ sets by Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti, The live set by The Dining Rooms (computer, samplers and turntable) and the visual part by Maria Arena. Reviews Dining Rooms - Tre (5 out of 10) Andrew Kelly Dining Rooms - Numero Duex (9 out of 10) Kevchino Interviews Interview with Dining Rooms (4/26/2005) Kevchino