Birth name Tony Rapacioli Website zenhiser.com Origin London Name Tony Rapacioli | Years active 1990–present Role Musical Artist Labels Unknown Record label UNKNOWN | |
Occupation(s) Writer, producer and remixer Albums Ce La Fairo (You'll Never Be Alone) People also search for Rick Simmonds, Stephen Jones, Lamai, Hush Genres Progressive house, Dance music, House music | ||
Kansai - Rococco (Kansai's Chillout Mix)
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.
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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.
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. 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. A year later, he wrote and produced the house track by GRN, Off World. In 1999, the single Pure Energy was released by Dreamcatcher. All of the production for the single Home, was carried out by Rapacioli.
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.
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. 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. Later the same year, Rapacioli first featured on the Ministry of Sound's The Annual. The track on the album was Outlaw by Fu Man Choo. The remixed track also featured on Trance Nation.
In 2002, the compilation album Future Chill by Virgin EMI Records featured the Dreamcatcher track, I Don't Want to Lose My Way. Trance Nation: Deeper was released in 2003 and featured a remix by Rapacioli.
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. Later that year, he released the single, Ce La Faro.
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.
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.