20 Facts About Davide Carbone

Davide Carbone was born in 1971 in Melbourne and started as a DJ in the Melbourne nightclub scene.

Davide Carbone formed the techno group, Future Sound of Melbourne with Josh Abrahams and acid house DJ Steve Robbins.

In 1998, Davide Carbone relocated to Bristol, England where he started drum and bass record label BS1 Records.

Davide Carbone released several drum and bass singles through BS1 Records, 31 Records and React.

Davide Carbone's music appeared on Discovery Channel and the Japanese video games Get Amped 2, Get Amped Tournament Edition and Cosmic 21.

Davide Carbone joined UK music production house Delicious Digital where he composed over one hundred pieces of music, some of which featured on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Two and the promo video for House of Saddam which was awarded a 2009 gold Promax Award.

In 2009, Davide Carbone returned to Melbourne, Australia where he formed s:amplify.

Under this new moniker Davide Carbone teamed with Josh Abrahams and Carl Cox to co-write and co-produce Cox's artist album All Roads Lead to the Dancefloor, released in 2011.

Davide Carbone provided complete sonic and music branding packages for 774 ABC Melbourne, Melbourne TV network Channel 31, Melbourne public transport company Metro Trains Melbourne, Macquarie University in Sydney, Tahiti Toursime, and Fiji Airways for which the rebranding package that included Davide Carbone's music was awarded with the Rebrand 2014 Best of Award.

Davide Carbone created the 30-minute soundtrack for the highest commemorative status given to an Australian event since the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the International Fleet Review.

Davide Carbone worked closely alongside the Royal Australian Navy Band to create the soundtrack.

Davide Carbone has tutored at various universities and colleges including the City Literary Institute and RMIT University.

In 2012 Davide Carbone founded the School of Synthesis in Melbourne which was set up to offer high end intensive courses in advanced music and audio production.

Davide Carbone was nominated for best soundtrack for his work on the award-winning short film 'Woody' at the 2013 APRA Screen Music Awards and was again nominated at the 2015 and the 2017 APRA Screen Music Awards for his work for Tahiti Tourism and Hennessy.

In 2016 Davide Carbone composed the original score and created sound design for the video game Ticket to Earth including the trailer music.

Davide Carbone designed and released the highly successful music software 'Scaler' to worldwide critical acclaim as the first piece of software that analyses musical performances and notation in order to detect the scale and key and suggest alternate scales, chord voicings and chord progressions.

Davide Carbone has recently co-composed the music for Tumi's global campaign featuring the actor Alexander Skarsgard, written the soundtrack for the video game 'Torque Drift' announced at the Game Developers Conference, and composed the music for the Australian Football League AFL Finals advertising campaign 'Don't Believe in Never'.

Davide Carbone attended the 'Open Saudi, Open Hearts, Open Doors' event in which he worked with local musicians and composers to score the entire multi-sensory show to commemorate the launch of E-visa tourist scheme into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Davide Carbone was awarded a 'Techno Pioneer Award' at the Melbourne Underground Techno Awards for his role in introducing Techno Music into Australia and was heavily featured in the book 'Techno Shuffle: rave culture and the Melbourne underground'.

In March 2025 Davide Carbone announced Scaler 3 a highly anticipated follow up to the multi award winning music theory software Scaler 2.