J-Ax
Deca Dance

Oh, guys, but do you know DJ AX? Yeah, that guy from the little band, Articolo 31. You remember them, right? The kids from TRANQUI FUNKY and the maria... Well, he's been making records on his own for a while now! Can you believe it? He's been shooting crap for years along with his buddy, back there, who was moving the records, and now he wants to keep all the dough for himself without having to split 50/50 with anyone.

Well, clever him! But he didn't take into account a factor of extreme importance... WHO WOULD BUY A DJ AX RECORD?

But why, with all the wonderful music we have in Italy, should we buy an album like DECA DANCE, his latest work that’s already a whole statement in the title? I mean, if I have 9.90 euros I'd rather buy Pino Daniele's latest, with six songs full of depth, pathos, and love love love... WHAT? AX IS THERE TOO???' It's a persecution! Look I'd rather add 5 euros and buy Ramazzotti's latest, with songs full of depth, pathos, and love love love, or the one from the fantastic Laura Pausini, with songs full of depth, pathos, and love love love, or Antonacci's, with songs full of pathos, depth, and...

And instead this worrywart goes rambling about how the generation before his is nostalgic but also hypocritical because, as they grew up, they trampled on all their ideals; or he jokes about the crisis, saying that he would've been better off being an accountant rather than an artist in the era of file-sharing; or he tells us about his personal and artistic life, in which anyone with a dream of redemption in this society can easily relate...

So why should I listen to someone who blames society and stress if people go crazy and shoot their neighbors, and points out to me that everything that gives a thrill is immoral or illegal, when I can soothe myself with the beautiful voice of Gigi D'Alessio, who can even make it snow in August?

Not to mention the collaborations, all among friends. What, you don't want to spend money to pay Sting or George Michael?... there's the young lad, there, who now kind of liked me with "a te che sei il mio amore grande e il mio grande amore", now he’s back to rapping like when he wore that stupid backwards cap, or that other guy there, who young people like, Bangladesh or something.... there's also the little brother and then there's Pino Daniele who lent him an old refrain to rap about his life as a singer, because Ax can't sing them on his own... he's not capable! Yes, a singer who can't sing, you heard it right! In fact, all his choruses are sung by another guy... yeah, alright, in previous albums he sang without problems and even in this one sometimes he does, so I don't know, maybe it's yet another experiment...

Because you must know that he experiments, he experiments..... And then all these genres, first rap, then rock, now rap 'n' roll..... oh! You're moving too fast, who can follow you? How do I catalog you? You forget that in Italy, we're a bit slow to assimilate....