BANGOVER CREW
Tropical rhythm from the Mediterranean sea and world music: Bangover Crew is the collective born in 2014 that shakes the Palermo scene to the rhythm of afrobeat and avant-garde music. A sound ecstasy that guides the body and mind towards a wild jungle.
LABORATORIO PALESTRO
Laboratorio Palestro is an independent Italian multidisciplinary platform that operates in various fields such as music, photography, zines, books, and clothing.
DJ ANKLES
Dj Ankles is the itchy, electric feeling you get through your feet when you finally land on the dance floor. Resident Dj of the Bolognese crew Mentalità, she always delivers the sweaty Italian summer atmosphere with a nice hint of uk garage, breaky grooves, acid landscapes and very very warm, aroused housy chants.
PAOLO GAUDIO
Paolo Gaudio is a drummer, composer, and sound designer from Calabria, born in 1991. He currently lives and works in Milan. His musical journey includes academic experiences at Lizard School in Fiesole, as well as at the NUT Academy in Naples, leading him to Respirano Records in New York in 2019-2020. His music is a type that evolves outside of established patterns and rules, seeking sonic fusions both in Italy and around the world, incorporating unconventional sounds and choices into his music.
LORENZO MORRESI
Lorenzo Morresi is a Music Producer, Guitarist and DJ working between the United Kingdom (London) and Italy.
Apart from his music production activity that led him to work with established and emerging artists on prestigious studios including Smokehouse, Strongrooms, Abbey Road among others - he successfully released records for 22a Records, Fly By Night Music, Wall Of Sound, Rollover Milano. Roots Underground Records, SuperEclectic.
His project is an eclectic and experimental blend of world music, italian jazz-funk, electronica and dance music performed both as dj set or with a live band. Lorenzo is also one of the resident djs of italian iconic party Rollover Milano at Apollo Club.
His various live projects, and studio productions have gained high praise and support from some of the key tastemakers, Dj’s and radio stations, such as Gilles Peterson on BBC6, NPR Jazz Night In America, Worldwide FM, NTS, Raffaele Costatino on RaiRadiodue, and many more.
Lorenzo musical work is based on a constant research for new sounds and combinations of genres - an organic union between technology and analog sounds with a collaborative approach with musicians from different backgrounds and countries, inspired by sounds from Planet Earth.
GABRIELE (SUNNY CRYPT)
Gabriele collects music, occasionally enjoys playing weird tunes to small dancing crowds, run an independent record label called Sunny Crypt and also spends some of his happiest days working in a record shop. Driven by a strong curiosity towards a wide range of musical genres coming from different eras and different cultural contexts, he co-curated the "Italian Dancefloor Outsiders 1987 - 1994" project, a retrospective compilation of under-the-radar leftfield club music released by Sound Metaphors' THANKYOU. In a previous life he’s also been a resident dj at Milan’s Dude Club, an institution of Italian clubbing in the last decade.
AHEADACHEADAY
Coming from the late 90’s Milanese noisecore and post-punk scene, Alberto has kept alive his experimental background and DIY ethics; a heterogeneous mix of influences is reflected during his sets and productions, ranging between quirky downtempo, hazy electro, gritty breakbeat and shady psychedelia, all mixed without fear of crossing boundaries or genres.
amorphe
Giuseppe Amoruoso (b. 1996) is an Italian producer and DJ based in Milan, IT. amorphe has been part of the Milano music scene since 2018 when he start to pro- duce some renown Italian artists. He releases music as Peppe Amore. His dj sets encompass several genres such as Breakbeat, Electro, House, and sometimes in- corporating Urban.
BLACK POMADE
Lisbon circuit regular Black Pomade is a DJ and producer originally from Milan (Italy), founder of the Ruínas collective and the Whoopee party series.
Heavily influenced by the NY Disco scene and the Chicago House originators, he's known for his melting pot of analog synths, groovy basslines, and syncopated beats. His sets travel through lots of House, Disco, and Acid records, filling the dance-floor with high energy and big smiles.
Besides his regular shows in Lisbon and Milan, throughout the years he had the chance to bring his sound around Europe, playing in places like Rome, Vienna, and Sofia, sharing the line-up with artists like Demuja, Kamma & Masalo, Don Carlos, Satoshi Tomiie, and the living legend Nicky Siano. He also contributed to renowned podcast series, such as SlothBoogie, Discoteca, and Histoires de Piscines, and radio shows in Melbourne, Bangkok, Skopje, São Paulo, and Ibiza.
Besides the launch of his vinyl-only series Manzo Edits and the A&R work for Whoopee Rec, Black Pomade released digitally on Last Forever Records, Stereo Ferment, Dig This Way, and Youngbloods. His music has also been pressed on wax by labels such as Windmill Re-Edits, Martino Edits, and on the upcoming Anything Goes vol. 7 by Rollover Milano.
MAGMAS
MAGMAS is a Music+Sound Design Studio & Record Label established in Milan in 2020 by Riccardo Valle. It specializes in developing tailor-made music for visual media, physical and digital publications, showcases, and workshops, as well as providing music consulting services for brands, festivals, and exhibitions.
PABIE aka PISCES AUREA
Pisces Aurea ♓️ is the new alternative project by Pabie, a DJ selector and founder of the Soundproof party, which originated at the Masada cultural association from 2016 to 2018, and has been a resident of venues like Frames and currently part of the Opal collective.
The project interprets music from a predominantly emotional perspective, where genres such as ambient, downtempo, abstract, and slow-mo blend together following a precise flow set by the artist according to their current state of mind. The listener is carried away by the sound that the artist wants to express at that moment, with genres being compared to emotional states.
BLACK WALNUT
Black Walnut is a DJ with a solid trunk and rough bark. He's born in the heart of the darkest and most intimate dancefloors, feeding off global sounds. He's been buying vinyl substance in circular form for as long as he can remember, trying to blend it with the elements that make him feel good. Selection and mixing intertwine in his soul, not dominating but carving out alternate spaces. Black Walnut wants to let the music flow patiently through rhythms; the intensity of a dancefloor can bloom in the many beats of a track. He's inspired daily by many masters, fueling his hunger for frequencies and bringing positivity to his inner forest.
TARU
Taru is the pseudonym of Ruggero Lambo; minimalistic variations and obsessive repetitions are essential parts of his practice and compositional signature, and some of his works move perfectly between the blurred lines of a future-oriented electronica.
The first album is a more pronounced research of ambient sounds and synthpop, created in collaboration: "Radioearth" tracks have been used as soundtracks for various videos and multimedia content. The second album "Suspension 900" was released by Big Cargo Records and is more experimental, noise and drone exploration is added. He played some festivals in his homeland, Sicily, and later moved to the city of Milan. After these life changes, he synthesized his research more towards a more minimalist compositional direction influenced by analogue sounds, for example modular synths or particular timbres found in the history of electronic music itself. The first Ep of this new cycle is "Post Analogic Tales" published by the Nous Disques label.
ROCKO
He began his journey in the world of digging in 2010 at the age of 15, starting to collect records of all genres. Over time, his passion solidified towards bass music. In 2015, he joined the EsseAlCubo collective, where he continues to support underground realities by organizing events in the southeast of Bari. In 2017, he founded the Room70018 project, giving life to a music promotion association. In 2018, together with these entities, he created LaJosa, a festival that integrates various shades of the cultural world.
In his musical growth path, he has gained recognition in the scene for his DnB, Jungle, Footwork, and Electro sets. He has been a resident at EsseAlCubo events since 2015, at OrgasmoBoiler since 2020, and at BerlinClub in Granada, Spain, in 2021. Since 2021, he has been a resident on Mondonero (IT) with the show "Eyes Wide Shut" and on 1020radio (UK) with "NotTooMuch," where he hosts local and international artists and collaborates with photographer Sofia Farfaglio. Thanks to his diverse cultural background, he has played alongside established artists from various genres, such as Montoya, Ivreatronic, Metarraph, Occupied Head, Terrorrytmus, Addison Groove, Kodacci and many more..
His sets take you on a journey that goes beyond labels, representing a true artistic expression.
GELA
Devourer of sounds, restless DJ and a unique voice on the Spanish scene, Gela’s musical journey began in Murcia in 2003, and since then has been continually imbued with the musical influences of the different corners of the world to which she’s traveled. It’s no wonder disco, cosmic funk, Brazilian music, acid house, dark 80s new wave, low bpm techno, electro, ambient and 90s breaks all co-inhabit in her sets. In 2013 she settled in Madrid, where she has gradually carved out a well-deserved place in the club scene, including a very celebrated residency at Club Berlín. In recent months she’s greatly
expanded her range, playing out in places such as Razzmatazz and Freedonia in Barcelona, Corsica Studios in London, Wilden Renate and About Blank in Berlin, Dabadaba in Donosti, and the Red Light Radio station in Amsterdam. Gela also reached several milestones in 2022, such as playing at Sónar or handing it over to Laurent Garnier in Madrid’s Brunch-In The Park. This year, she has been selected for Keychange, a European funding programme for bringing underrepresented talent to the front in the music industry.
BERNARDINO FEMMINIELLI
Bernardino Femminielli works in media including music, performance, poetry and film under the guise of a hyper-sexual nostalgic provocateur. His work and character are a synthesis of mysticism, transgression, danger and pleasure-- a detached crooner deep within a dystopian discotheque. Narrating in French and Spanish, from classical arrangements to brutal Italo-disco, from heavy cosmic drone to mutant industrial: his sonic ventures reflect his adopted personas. His lyrics explore an imagined illicit paradise full of excess, drugs, bars, pleasure, darkness and companionship.
Much of Bernardino’s poetry is arranged using the cut-up technique, and is composed of subversive and immoral subject matter– thematics similarly found in works of transgressive fiction. He questions the crumbling capitalist order through a series of poems that unite thugs, bourgeois love, and the mechanics of his oppressors. A serial killer cruising a gendarme, a repressed homosexual hiding from his wife in coffee shops, a disco love song for a cabaret singer in despair, the human condition, your lawyer banging your wife while you’re in prison… it’s all there. He is both confrontational and intensely vulnerable in his storytelling, exploring the rich and dark energy of French and German cabaret— ground zero to where his diverse references coalesce. As Bernardino always says: He who laughs last, laughs best.
MARQUIS
Marquis is Gioele Accongiagioco, a DJ and producer born in Milan. A self-taught musician, from his very first encounters with music, he has been driven by the need not to confine himself to a specific style and the desire to freely explore the endless worlds of music, from Battiato to Daft Punk, from Fela Kuti to Umiliani, and even to OPN.
At the age of 20, he opened his own studio and began touring Italy as a DJ. In 2019, he started a collaboration with Tommy Dali, one of the rising names in the new Italian R'n'B scene. Together, they independently released "Personale," his debut EP, for which he handled all the productions. The EP gained the interest of both the public and industry professionals, leading him to join Rkomi's "Dove Gli Occhi Non Arrivano Tour."
In 2020, Marquis produced Nomercy Blake's album "Occhi Diversi," distributed by Island Records. The following year, he collaborated with Rkomi on the successful album "Taxi Driver," co-producing the single "Solo Con Me." He also worked with Marianne Mirage on the concept EP "Mirage," created in collaboration with Nike and distributed by Believe Digital.
On January 14, 2022, he made his debut with his first single, "Per me, Per Te" feat. Germanò, which preceded his debut album "Il Pasto Nudo," released on June 10, 2022. The album featured contributions from artists in the new Italian music scene, including Galea, cmq martina, Germanò, Ceneri, and DARRN. After an extensive tour with his disco-funk DJ set enriched with influences from the Maghreb and the Middle East, Marquis resumed his musical journey in 2023 with the double single "La Notte Brava feat. Lamusa II / A Tu Per Tu," released on March 1, 2023.