Marco Trentacoste is a London-based Italian music producer, guitarist and mixer engineer who has been active since 1993.
Career
In 1993, Trentacoste founded the band, V.M.18, and released their eponymous album in 1996. Following V.M.18's split in 1997, Trentacoste played with The Paolo Martella Band and Delta V. During this period, Trentacoste also remixed songs for various artists including Bluvertigo, Soerba and Pino Scotto. From 2001 to 2008, Trentacoste was a member of Deasonika and also produced four of their albums, 'Piccoli Dettagli Al Buio', 'Deasonika', 'Tredicipose' ). Deasonika participated in the 56th Sanremo Festival in 2006 with the song,'Non Dimentico Piu'. From 2006, Trentacoste started working with Le Vibrazioni and produced their gold album, 'Officine Meccaniche'. Trentacoste went on to produce and mix Le Vibrazioni's album and DVD of live performances, 'En Vivo' – which included the successful single 'Insolita' – and also produced and mixed Le Vibrazioni's fourth album, 'Le Strade Del Tempo'. Between 2008 and 2012, Trentacoste produced, mixed and played with a number of artists in Italy including Lacuna Coil, Giusy Ferreri and Eros Ramazzotti. Since 2013, Trentacoste has focussed predominantly on international projects such as music for the 'Lawless' movie trailer and The Dyneema Project and working with Hooverphonic and Dope Stars Inc.. In 2016, Trentacoste worked with KMFDM mixing the anthology album 'Rocks: Milestones Reloaded' and remixing two of their songs, 'Amnesia' and 'A Drug Against War'. In 2017, Trentacoste started working with the Chinese rock artist, Xie Tian Xiao, producing and mixing the album 'That's Not Me'. For this work, Trentacoste was nominated for a 'Golden Melody Award' for 'Best Vocal Recording Album'. In 2018, Xie Tian Xiao won the Golden Melody Award for 'Best Chinese Rock Artist 2018' with the album 'That’s not me' produced, recorded and mixed by Trentacoste.
Other
In 2003, Trentacoste produced and mixed an album for Marco Cocci's band, Malfunk. Between 2004 and 2007, Trentacoste was a member of the Rezophonic project. Deasonika's 2006 album features Jaz Coleman, singer of Killing Joke. In 2015, Trentacoste and DJ Aladyn worked on a personalside project called 'The Spooky Scientists' and released a cover of the Joy Division song 'Insight'. Trentacoste plays guitars and synth on most albums.
