Mephisto   (Italy)

EuroDance group
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Latest Mephisto news

19/01/2024 : Mephisto released a single under a new alias, Nuna, entitled Boom Boom Boom (thanks to Thomas Spiegel)

13/10/2010 : Mephisto released a new single entitled In The Name Of Love under Ego Music Italy. It features rapper Kurtis Blow (famous for contributing to eurodance projects such as Power Nation or Sonic Boom), as well as a sample from The Supremes (thanks to Carver).

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Mephisto singles

	Euphemia	Sep 1991	BUY X
	State Of Mind	Dec 1992	BUY X
	Keep On (Groovin)	Oct 1993	BUY X
	You Got Me Burnin' Up	1994	BUY X
	You Got Me Burnin'	28th Nov 1994	BUY X
	Back In Time	1995	BUY X
	My Love	Apr 1995	BUY X
	Voices	1996	BUY X
	Mystery Of Love	12th Aug 1997	BUY X
	People	2nd Apr 1998	BUY X
	Waitin' For Love	1999	BUY X
	Superstition	1999	BUY X
	Simple Man	2004	BUY X
	State of mind II (vs Phunk Investigation & Anthonio Napoli)	2008	BUY X
	Yerba De Ibiza	2008	BUY X
	The Beat Of The Bee	Apr 2009	BUY X
	In The Name Of Love	4th Oct 2010	BUY X
	Forever Mine	5th Feb 2021	BUY X

Mephisto remixes

You Got Me Burnin'

1994

BUY X

Productions, co-production, executive production

Medusa (2) - Waitin' For Love

1995

BUY X

Arrangement, recording, engineer

Medusa (2) - Waitin' For Love

1995

BUY X

Songwriting

	Silver Pozzoli - Don't Forget Me	3rd Jun 1994	BUY X
	La Rouge - Makin' Love	19th Sep 1994	BUY X
	Medusa (2) - Waitin' For Love	1995	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

Nuna - Boom Boom Boom

5th Jan 2024

BUY X

Mephisto biography

Maurizio D'ambrosio alias Mephisto was born in Verbania (Italy) on November 13th 1963. He started his career as DJ on the beginning of 1980. Due to his everlasting passion for music, he started to study self-taught all the recording studios innovations of that time like samplers, synthetizeds, effects, midi, etc. From 1990 to 1992 he practised these innovations in a disco club called Kursaal-Verbana, this was the beginning of his success. Between the disco and his little recording studio, he released the maxi single Euphemia in September 1991 (under the labels Palmares and Dance Opera). It became one of the most played records in discotheques, with 10 000 copies sold in Italy, but he did not get that much recognition, and was ignored by the radios.

In December 1992, he recorded, mixed and produced State Of Mind. On January 1993 it had reached #1 in all Italian dance charts, and in March it was the most sold single in Italy. He suddenly become very famous and appreciated, and started touring in the biggest Italian discos. His show was a mix of samplers, expanders, and high quick mix with records, together with a vocalist (which was a premiere).

In October 1993, the follow-up Keep On Groovin was released. He also did a remix of Corona's The Rhythm Of The Night.

In July 1994, he released under Palmares in Italy and Polydor in Germany the amazing eurodance single You Got Me Burnin Up. It featured the voice of Shunza (and an unknown rapper), and the maxi contains the following 4 mixes : Vocal Radio Remix, Bomba Deng Remix, Hard Tribal Remix & The Rap Remix. It went top 20 in almost all the European charts. Shunza (born in China in 1973) sung a lot of Mephisto tracks. Afterward, between 1998 and 2003, she went solo and did a fine career in Asia. In 1999, she won a big prize in Taiwan : the Golden Song Prize for best singer.

On December 1994 he climbed another step in his DJ career : the Titanic, a big discotheque (3000 persons capacity) in Lugano (Switzerland) offered him a one-year contract as resident DJ and artistic director. The same year, he released My Love and Back In Time.

At the beginning of 1996, he opened a new recording studio in his home city Verbania, and in March he created his own label Sisma Records. The first single to be produced under this label was the dream house single Voices. It was released as 3-tracks CD single and 9-tracks CD maxi and went #2 in the French dance charts. At the same moment, he was busy managing the discotheque Il Tokyo in Cannobio (Italy).

He kept on the dream house wave with the single Mystery Of Love, which had some success in France. It was licenced under ZYX in Germany and Remixed Records in Sweden.

1999 : he released Waitin' For Love, in the disco house style (it was top ten in France), followed by the single Superstition (both licensed under Airplay records in France). The deejaying in the best French clubs, from Paris to Monte Carlo, from Marseille à Lille

2004 : after 5 years of silence, Mephisto was back with a double single, Simple Man / Simple Song.

2008 : a new version of State Of Mind was released under the name Phunk Investigation & Anthonio Napoli vs Mephisto.

2009 : Mephisto released a new single entitled The Beat Of The Bee, dedicated to his son's birth.

2010 : his new single was entitled In The Name Of Love and it was a collaboration with Kurtis Blow. The same year, he contributed to reviving a mythic place, the Villa Giulia o Kursaal in Verbania (Lago Maggiore) through 3 big events : Remember Kursaal.

2012 : Maurizio was very busy running a restaurant/beach club called Lido Beach Lounge on Cannobio Lago Maggiore.

2019 : after many years of silence, he felt the need to reboot his recording studio.

2021 : he released (in France only) Forever Mine, a new song dedicated to his brother and sister, based on samples taken from Sheila's hit Spacer, and featuring Wendy D. Lewis.

2024 : he released a single under a new alias, Nuna, entitled Boom Boom Boom

Thanks to reBeL, Kizoo, Carver, Eurohitmusic, Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin and Fred from DanceWebSite

Mephisto biography was last updated Wed, October 4th 2023

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