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What’s in Your Toolbox: Luigi Madonna

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Artists will never come unprepared to a party. They always bring a toolbox packed with tracks that are truly dance floor destroyers. “What’s in Your Toolbox” features artists’ secret weapons, aka, the tracks they don’t leave out of their USB. In this installment, Italian stalwart Luigi Madonna shares his 6 choice picks that are profound with energy, and can set the mood in any club. One of his favorite song picks also includes his upcoming three-track EP, Contempo Vol. III that will release on his imprint Contempo. Listeners can expect his three-track EP to be full of dominating percussions, razor-sharp hi-hats, varied synths, strong vocals, and authentic underground elements.

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Lorenzo De Blanck Releases “Hey Baby” on Jamie Jones’ Hottrax

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Hottrax is a well-established record label run by Jamie Jones and it’s the imprint that first introduced Patrick Topping to the world. The record label is a stripped-back and techy sibling to Hot Creations, which is Jamie Jones’ other label project. Now, the latest Hottrax release comes from the Italian artist Lorenzo De Blanck.

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Global Vibe Radio 329 Feat. Domenico Crisci (Summa Cum Laude)

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After releasing records on L.I.E.S, Jealous God, Semantica, and his own label project Summa Cum Laude to name a few, Domenico Crisci quickly rose to prominence among purveyors of timeless techno.

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6AM Guest Mix: ItaloBros

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Born and raised in the southern villa of Scalea, Italy, the ItaloBros are an eclectic, creative, and curious duo with a passion for evolving music. This DJ/Producer duo are in constant search of new ways to feed their musical stimuli. As they find new ways of pushing their boundaries with strength and charge, their end result is a craft that is mixed with passion and rhythm.

You won’t find this duo sticking to a single genre, as they are always drawn to experimental sounds and contemporary elements; however, their Old-school roots, as well as their Deep influences, can be found in their music.

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How YLYNE Blends the Unexpected With Techno

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YLYNE is the project of the Italian guitar player, composer, and producer Frank Martino. Frank is an eclectic musician comfortable with rock, electronics, and jazz. In 2012 he graduated with full marks in Jazz Music at the G. Frescobaldi Conservatory of Music in Ferrara, Italy. For over ten years he has dedicated himself to jazz and electronic music, bringing this approach into various projects.

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He released three solo albums with his band, Disorgan, via Auand Records, an Italian independent label dedicated to genre-defying music, providing a home for artists who push the boundaries of improvised music: Revert in 2016, Level 2 Chaotic Swing in 2018, and Ego Boost in 2020. As a producer and under the pseudonym of YLYNE he has released two Eps in 2014 (5 Ways To and AB+) and two albums, 26 (2017) and Odd Dance Music (2021).

Line Up, his new single, blends dance music with dub and African-derived rhythms into a stunning hypnotic progression. The track was produced and live recorded entirely on synths, drum machines, and samplers.

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6AM Guest Mix: LUMERTZ

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Livening up the mid-week, LUMERTZ  shares his latest Guest Mix with 6AM. The Brazilian/ Italian DJ and producer is currently based in Sydney, Australia. His music style is built on top of classic Detroit and Berlin techno. With presentations couched by intense feelings, LUMERTZ guides the dance floor in a hypnotic trip full of looped and acid sounds. In his short time living in Australia, LUMERTZ already shared the stage with some of the finest local names, such as Hoten, Ludovic, Manu Neves, Nick Reverse, and more. In 2021 he started to release his own songs and remixes through WeLove Recordings and independently.

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Lorenzo Magnozzi: 5 Italian Producers Who Have Influenced My Career

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Eclectic, multifaceted and hypnotic, Lorenzo Magnozzi presents himself with the slogan “music is freedom of introspection.”

For him, music is an elementary presupposition necessary for life, an instrument of liberation and love. He was born in Pisa, a great Italian city for art, in 1992 and fell in love with electronic music very early listening to the old rave recordings of the Italian techno movement of the ’90s and coming into contact with artists such as Sven Ricardo Villalobos, Plastikman, Underworld , and Luciano. Lorenzo took his first steps in the DJ booth around 2006 at the young age of 14, and his passion for music since lead him to fall in love with music traveling to clubs and festivals around Europe, from Frankfurt to Ibiza, from the UK to the Netherlands, and from Spain to France, collecting vinyl records from all over the world, discovering new places, new people and new sounds.

It would be unfair to categorize his sound, it’s an introspection of himself and his constant personal developments. With tracks played and supported by many international artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Dana Ruh, Raresh, Tobi Neumann and Nastia, Lorenzo has gone on to give life to his record label called Introspection Recordings, launched in 2005 as a platform of and for artists and musicians, a fusion of music and art, a union of all the elements, physical and psychological to create a single identity. His DJ sets are the result of creative and inventive research that can vary from House to Techno, through the most diverse sound atmospheres that create environments where reality overcomes imagination.

We asked Lorenzo to look back at his career and share with us 5 Italian artists he feels have made an indelible impression and influence on who he is today as an artist.

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