
Label Description
Famous Italian House Label. Founded by Gianni Bini & Paolo Martini.
Ocean Trax was born at the end of 1996 with the releasing of "Take me over"
the first House of Glass's production that was originally produced by
Gianni Bini, Paolo Martini and Fulvio Perniola with the collaboration of
the great vocal singer Judy Albanese, one of the most popular house
vocalist of that times. The single was lately released also in UK under
Minisrty of Sound with special remixes by Mark Picchiotti.
After this Gianni & Paolo decided to continue their adventure in music
business releasing the HOG follow up single "Do Whatcha Feel"...but, few
months late they gave the label a big impulse in the house scene in Italy
and Europe with the publication of the single "Dancing with you" by
Bini&Martini with the voice of Romina Johnson (already featured on Artful
Dodger & Goosebump singles..); the record was released in UK under Azuli
(one of the most respected record labels in the dance scene) and in the
rest of Europe after the remix that Full Intention have made for that
track. Ocean Trax & Azuli decided to be in partnership for years with a
record deal that helped Bini&Martini and their record label to increase the
popularity not only in England. Infact in 1999 the first "Eclipse" single
"Makes me love" reached the UK top 20 sales chart and sold more than 70.000
copies only in UK. Not only, in 2000 the singles "Disco Down - HOG feat
Giorgio Giordano", "Soul Heaven - The Goodfellas" and "Soul Provider -
Rise" was licensed in all the world under the best house labels and reached
the top position of the Club&Sales chart all over.
This bring Bini&Martini to the top level as producers and remixers, now
major labels are asking them to put their hands and do remixes for biggest
name of music like Jocelyn Brown, Kilye Minogue, Jamiroquai, Backstreet
Boys and Gabrielle just to say fews....
Their remix of "Love Foolosophy" won the "Italian Dance Awards" for BEST
REMIX of the year 2002.
After this Bini&Martini worked hard to keep Ocean Trax always at the top,
trying to get the best singles to release even from other producers under
exclusive licenses, and also doing the best they can to keep as high as
possible the "Ocean Trax Sound" that now is a trademark for them.
In 2004 they have made the decision to create a subsidiary label of Ocean
Trax: Ocean Dark. The intention was to give the finest Tech/Electro & Dub
house music to all the DJ's that are looking for it. In so little time
Ocean Dark (that actually count already 21 releases) is probably the
biggest label in Italy for that kind of sound and one of the most respected
labes in Europe too.