Spankox

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“Monday night to the club, Tuesday night to the club, Wednesday night what a headache, but I went to the club…” When five years ago the worldwide smash “To The Club” dropped on the dance world, it quickly became one of those unforgettable club anthems that achieve the rare status of “club classic”. This hit was credited to Spankox, said to be variously a “secret agent, Italian stallion, fashion model, limo driver, photographer, painter and poet”. Despite the big fuss that ensued over this international man of mystery, it turned out that Spankox was simply an assumed identity of one Agostino Carollo, who adopted this moniker that he describes as “a name that is at the same time strong, sexy and unique”. And Carolllo was hardly a newcomer to the scene, either; in fact, he had been at the forefront of Italian dance music of all kinds since the early ‘90s, from hip-hop and electro to pop-dance and the disco flavoured house music for which Spankox quickly became famous worldwide. Born in Rovereto, a small town near Lake Garda, in the north of Italy, Agostino graduated in Arts. He travelled the world extensively playing keyboards, singing and deejaying in small clubs before setting up his own studio and his own label, Everness. ‘Round about 1991 he started to produce and release records under several monikers for some of the finest Italian independent record labels. In 1997 he signed a record deal with EMI and he immediately scored a string of hits under the name X-Treme: first

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To the Club

So True

Maxima FM Compilation Vol.11

To The Club (Space Motion Remix)

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Pioneer The Album 2000-2010

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Tonterias Las Justas

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Michael Jackson Is Not Dead

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To The Club (HOOX Remix)

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You Like Torero

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The Annual - Spring 2004 - Ministry Of Sound CD1

To The Club (Rodg Remix)

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Fat Boy Slim (Fala Aí)

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