X-TREME

That's The Way '97

Milan, Italy - September 8th, 1997 -- X-Treme was going to jump... and he's made a real big jump this year signing with EMI for the release of That's The Way '97, a dance song that pulls the 70s disco sound into the 90s with a perfect blend of house-style rhythms and rap. In Italy That's The Way '97 has quickly hit the hot play charts. In the USA, Japan, Australia, Brasil, Germany, Holland and Spain the song is booming; EMI has also published and licenced That's The Way '97 in Canada, Israel, Czech Republic, Corea, Brasil, Saudi, Thailand, Belgium and all Scandinavia. In the United Kingdom, where That's The Way '97 is going to be out at the end of september, the remix star Mark Summers, known as Scorrcio (producer of Donna Summer, Mica Paris, The Brand New Heavies and many other international top artists) was called to remix the track. The five different versions of That's The Way '97 cover various styles: from the original "70s into 90s" sound of the Club Mix and Extended Mix to the hard techno of the 177 Mix, to the dub sound of the Cool Mix. The interpolations of KC and the Sunshine Band's That's The Way I Like It are so cool that if you listen to that song after playing That's The Way '97 you feel like something's missing.

X-Treme, whose real name is Agostino Carollo, is a 30 years old italian dj and musician from Rovereto, a little town on the famous Lake Garda, in the North of Italy. He approached music as a classic violin player when he was only 6 and played guitar and keyboards with many rock bands during his teen years. A lot of clubs around Italy, France and England still remember his performances as a solo player around the years '87 to '91. Deep into house music since the birth of it, he set up a home studio that progressively developed into his actual state-of-the-art recording facility. His first record was This Is The Voice, published in 1992 by the label Palmares under the name Paranoimia. Several records followed that first hit, among which must be remembered 1992, under the name Opera (Bull & Butcher Records, 1992), No Satisfaction (Media Records, 1993) and Yo Quiero Un Chico (Media Records, 1996) under the name F.I.N.E. He was also a member of the Dance Authority team that in 1994 remixed the biggest hits of the 60s singer Rita Pavone (Datemi Un Martello, WEA, 1994).