{"id":143,"date":"2023-09-14T07:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/about-us-2"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:11:42","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Area Pirata was born in 2001 immediately tending to Garage, R’n’R, without missing HC-Punk and Oi! as well.


We deal with reissues of old records that are no longer available or unreleased as well as new records recorded by bands doing business with an attitude similar to ours.


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AREA PIRATA<\/strong>, Italy\u2019s most active independent label, has a catalogue of almost 200 titles ranging from garage to psychedelia to hardcore punk. It also rediscovers Italian bands from the 80\u2019s. Head honchos Tiziano Rimonti<\/strong> and Jacopo Giannetti<\/strong> tell it all to ROBERTO CALABR\u00d2. <\/strong><\/p>

\u201cWe started the label in 2003, after being a small independent distribution for a while. We saw ourselves as a part of an alternative community, we loved punk as well as pirate radio stations in the \u201860s, hence the label\u2019s name and logo. Since the beginning we decided to release reissues of old bands and records of new acts too\u201d, says Tiziano Rimonti who runs the label along with his long-time friend Jacopo Giannetti. \u201cThe first albums we released were a compilation of hardcore punk bands from Tuscany entitled \u201cUrla dal Gran Ducato\u201d,\u00a0 a 10-inch EP 1by garage rock\u2019n\u2019roll band Radio Zero and a real nugget, \u201cLand Of Nothing\u201d, the lost album by Italian underground legends Not Moving that was due to be released in 1984 but never was\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>

Since then, Area Pirata have released about 200 titles, and the range of their releases has grown: not only do they put out punk, garage and rock\u2019n\u2019roll but also psychedelia, blues, and soul records. Initially only working with Italian bands, Area Pirata have now embraced international groups. Indeed,\u00a0 the best-selling titles in their catalogue are the reissues of Californian 80\u2019s garage-punks The Morlocks: \u201cEmerge\u201d and \u201cSubmerged Alive\u201d have been re-pressed several times both in CD and vinyl.<\/p>

In 2012 the label, based in the outskirts of Pisa, worked with English mod act Secret Affair to give their \u201cSoho Dreams\u201d comeback album an Italian release. A few years later, the beloved Aussie-rock classic \u201cRoman Beach Party\u201d by The Celibate Rifles was released in a luxurious gatefold sleeve edition, while last year NYC garage-punks the Outta Place ended up on the label\u2019s roster with their explosive \u201cPrehistoric Sound\u201d compilation.<\/p>

Looking to the past, Area Pirata has dug through the Italian underground archives to reissue albums (often expanded) by 80\u2019s psychedelic, beat and garage bands like Not Moving, Sick Rose, Four By Art, The Liars, Gli Avvoltoi, Out Of Time, Backwards, Views. \u201cSome of these bands reformed and we are happy to have released their new records\u201d, says Giannetti, referring to act like psychedelic combo No Strange, garage-power pop act The Sick Rose and, more recently, Not Moving (now Not Moving L.T.D.) with their newest impressive \u201cLove Beat\u201d album. \u201cWe like to reissue old records and we are honoured to work with such legendary bands, but we are happy to launch new bands as well\u201d, enthuses Tiziano. \u201cBands like The Trip Takers or The Backdoor Society gained an international audience having debuted with us. More recently we were very satisfied by the good response received by blues artist Elli De Mon, Florence\u2019s glam-rock band Barmudas, and northern soul act The Piaggio Soul Combination. We\u2019re always looking for exciting new bands\u201d.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Area Pirata was born in 2001 immediately tending to Garage, R’n’R, without missing HC-Punk and Oi! as well. We deal with reissues of old records that are no longer available or unreleased as well as new records recorded by bands doing business with an attitude similar to ours. We thought and still think that our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}