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Tony Rapacioli, also known as Praha and Kansai, is an electronic music producer and sound designer from London, England. Rapacioli used the music persona mainly when he was producing and remixing progressive house tracks. Throughout his career, Rapacioli has used a number of different musical aliases for his work as a producer, writer, dj and remixer. His work has featured on record labels including Platipus Records and AM PM Records. His work has featured on various compilation albums for both Virgin/EMI and also Ministry of Sound. His track Rococo, featured on Midnight Club II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Midnight Club II Soundtrack Sampler )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Midnight Club II Soundtrack page )〕 Rapacioli also founded the sound design record label, Zenhiser, which is based in Noosa, Australia. ==Career== Rapacioli started his music career as a DJ, with DJ sets on pirate radio station Touchdown FM. Following his initial work as a DJ, Rapacioli began to write and produce singles. This began in 1992, when he worked as Sly T with Ollie J on their single, ''Undeground Confusion for Black Market International''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Sly-T-And-Ollie-J-Featuring-Anthony-Underground-Confusion/release/206747 )〕 After working on his first single as a writer, he recorded a second single under the same alias, titled ''Help Me''. After a break in producing & writing, Rapacioli became involved again with Triptonic, producing the tracks ''Brain Step'' and ''Do You Feel'' in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Triptonic-Brain-Step/release/1672588 )〕 A year later, he wrote and produced the house track by GRN, ''Off World''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/GRN-Off-World/release/2914576 )〕 In 1999, the single Pure Energy was released by Dreamcatcher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mtv.com/artists/dreamcatcher/discography/626812/ )〕 All of the production for the single ''Home'', was carried out by Rapacioli.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/home-pure-energy-mw0000954462/releases )〕 In 1999, Rapacioli featured on his first Ministry of Sound compilation, the Clubbers Guide To...Australia with the remixed version of TR Junior's track Rock With Me.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Clubbers-Guide-To-Australia/release/2163797 )〕 Praha was first used in the year 2000, when Rapacioli released 3 separate tracks under the name. They were the first solo tracks he had released as an artist, and they included the track, Pachinko.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Praha-Presents-Xian-Pachinko/release/85736 )〕 After beginning to use the Praha artist name, he remixed the La Rissa track, I Do Both Jay & Jane. The track featured on the Ministry of Sound album, Clubbers Guide To... Ibiza.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Clubbers-Guide-To-Ibiza-Summer-2001/release/105749 )〕 Later the same year, Rapacioli first featured on the Ministry of Sound's The Annual.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Ibiza-Annual-Summer-2001/release/170128 )〕 The track on the album was ''Outlaw'' by Fu Man Choo. The remixed track also featured on Trance Nation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Sound-Trance-Nation-1/dp/tracks/B00000K20T/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1 )〕 In 2002, the compilation album Future Chill by Virgin EMI Records featured the Dreamcatcher track, ''I Don't Want to Lose My Way''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Chill-Various-Artists/dp/tracks/B000069JBX/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1 )〕 Trance Nation: Deeper was released in 2003 and featured a remix by Rapacioli.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trance-Nation-Deeper-Various-Artists/dp/tracks/B000095IYF/ref=dp_tracks_all_2#disc_2 )〕 From 2001 onwards, a number of tracks written by Rapacioli featured on various compilation albums. This began with the track ''Pachinko'', which featured on Progressive Anthems by Virgin EMI Records. It also featured on Dave Pearce's True Euphoria in 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Dave-Pearce-True-Euphoria/release/61344 )〕 Later that year, he released the single, Ce La Faro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Tony-Rapacioli-Ce-La-Faro/release/1108519 )〕 Rapacioli had his single ''Shake Baby'', remixed by Tall Paul in late 2002. The remixed version of the track featured on the compilation album, ''Future Sound of Ibiza''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Future-Sound-Of-Ibiza/release/404530 )〕 Between 2001 and 2004, he also released a number of tracks under the music persona, Kansai. The two most notable tracks released under this name were ''Rococco'' and ''Remember This Night''. Both of which featured on various albums, including a number of Platipus Records compilation albums. In 2002, his track Rococo featured on the video game Midnight Club II.〔 Today, Rapacioli is the owner of Zenhiser, a sound design record label.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.zenhiser.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Rapacioli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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