MDF stands for MidiD’unFaune, the electronic composition and performance project of Daniele De Santis, an eclectic drummer and percussionist active in several bands playing improvisation and avant-jazz.
Thanks to an in-depth continuing research on timbre, MDF’s production contents extend from multi-timbral magmas, drones and constantly changing sound ambiences to complex harmonic and polyrhythmic systems. This diversity allows the project to take place in performative research contexts as well on the dancefloor, using an heterogeneous language that naturally combines isolationist tendencies with abstract hip hop and IDM forms. HORVS, the first MDF album released in April 2010 by Farmacia901, summarises the most experimental aspects of the project. Its music is a progressive transfiguration of ultra-material sounds in ethereal abstractions. In June 2011 a new album will be released by Minus Habens Records presenting a series of new MDF tracks mostly oriented to glitch-hop and abstract beats. Some tracks feature the beautiful voice of Leila Adu. A single, “Prendi Uno” (first meeting between MidiD’unFaune and Leila Adu’s voice), has been released during 2010 in two compilations: “NessunDorma” (Minus Habens Records) and “Urb Alt Sampler Tres” (Urb Alt Community), including also other amazing tracks by Flying Lotus & Gonjasufi, Jneiro Jarel, Howie B and many others.







