Fri, 04 Jun 2010 / Post a commentI’m well, thanks. Being my 3rd Dissonanze, if I’m not wrong, probably being enthusiast it’s a bit of an exaggeration, although I’m happy to perform at it’s 10th Anivversary! I think it’s a great rendezvous before summer, a good way to expose yourself and to know what’s going on in the european electronic music scene. Dissonanze it was, and probably still is, one of the most important festivals in which I performed in Italy.
Hi Marco, How are you? Are you enthusiast for the big Festival?
I’m well, thanks. Being my 3rd Dissonanze, if I’m not wrong, probably being enthusiast it’s a bit of an exaggeration, although I’m happy to perform at it’s 10th Anivversary! I think it’s a great rendezvous before summer, a good way to expose yourself and to know what’s going on in the european electronic music scene. Dissonanze it was, and probably still is, one of the most important festivals in which I performed in Italy.
Although you’re well appreciated here in Italy, outside Italy you seem to be almost worshipped for your works. Can you tell us how?
I don’t really feel worshipped outside my country, I just simply feel respected. I’ve started my musical career by contributing, even though in a marginal way when I was 17, with Luca Cucchetti in his radio program called Centro Suono Rave. From there on I’ve always concentrated myself exclusively on music, so in ‘93 I’ve opened my first label with Andrea Benedetti, where I worked always on producing and aside that on distribution and importation of others similar platforms. I never wanted to organize events to participate, there would have been too many non-musical aspects that I should have thought about to promote them. I still did it, but not enough to create a base for the local support. I think basing your own career only in composing music was a sci-fi concept in Italy for the very low market demand of music and that’s probably why my work has been recognized much earlier outside my country.
So why haven’t you decided yet to move yourself out of italy, maybe in London or Berlin, as many of your “collegues” did?
There are lot of reasons why, but over all I would say for some personal problems that I had to go through when i was 22. On the other hand I’ve an infinite sense of proudness tha made me push to do what I had in mind here in Italy, where I live. My sense of belonging here is extremely strong, even though in these last period I live almost as a foreigner in its own home-land.
You’ve played in 5 different continents, but also in the most important stages of the world….WOW!
That’s right. Although that doesn’t mean that my job is done. I’ve just brought around my musical ideas wherever people appreciated it. Fortunately everybody supports me by calling me to play and i thank’em back by continuing my production process.
If i say…Red Bull?
I’ve been involved with the Red Bull Music Academy in 2004 when it happened here in Rome. The aim of the academy is to welcome international artists with new and interesting recruits coming from all over the world. The academy is moved every year in a different city and this is why me and my friend Mario Pierro (Raiders of the lost ARP and half of the Jolly music / Mat101) have been involved as a local team exactly on that year in Rome. That was probably the most refreshing and beautiful thing that I ever did. It’s something different from been a producer, it’s a new challenge and an opportunity for comparison with boys from around the world.
Experience at 6 years still outstanding and exciting as the first time. Also contributes to Radio RedbullMusicAcademy first with the program size Francisco with Jack and Mario Pierro, now mixed with the set from time to time. Participate in various workshops in Italy and around the world. So all-encompassing experience that helped me to grow and expand my musical knowledge and technology, without neglecting the human growth thanks to its comparison with that many characters and cultures. So unforgettable experience that I will continue to live intensely up when I will be given the opportunity.
Some artist that you liked this year to the academy?
I literally fell in love with 00Genesis and although I already knew him again impressed Ad Bourke which moreover is Italian.
New productions coming?
It is coming out an EP on the German “Running Back”. It ’s a work divided into two parts. The first will be out before summer and the second part after the summer. I have another ep ready made with a boy named Venezuelan Montez, for another major label in German but still I just can not reveal the name wire smoothly …I hope! Also continue to work on a project “secret” with another boy. Came the first two eps and have been really a bomb. It ‘coming third in November and finally released the album, everything ready!
Mark too many secrets, too many secrets!
The fact is not to keep secrets, is that now everyone is saying everything, everyone knows everything… speak too many words. So I prefer to do things without ads. Let’s say I did my best with you my philosophy that allows the preview.
By the way of your productions. You say that it represents the “Old School”, you act like seeing the world of digital is king? Still using analog equipment for your productions?
I think it’s inevitable progress of technology. We are now in the digital age. The computer is now capable of working in an impressive manner. There are plug-in can generate effects / sounds virtually very close to analog. But the end is a matter of taste. I still believe that the best result is to take the best from both.
In what direction do you think the new sound is traveling? What will be the sound of the future?
Actually I think a real new sound will not be. Not much to invent, there is more or less everything. We speak rather of styles, and “mischioni” of things already done. The market then is the master. There are musical genres that sometimes take over and then they go down. And frankly I do not know what will be the next to take over. It warns that people are tired of hearing the same things. There is a great choice thanks to the internet (legal and illegal downloads, blogs, social networks) and this is why people start to diversify their plays. I noticed this thing even more songs to listen to the presentation of young people who attended the Academy of RedBull this year were all different from each other, and this is fascinating.
Finally everything is super-faceted and therefore there will be a real novelty. The future will identify a mixture…
Many thanks to the availability! Good luck to all.
Thanks also to you, it was a pleasure!
