It’s four o’clock in the morning. The smell of cigarettes and weed wafts in the warehouse air, strobe lights color the dance floor, and other people dance to the music playing from the subwoofers. It’s the best environment for a techno rave. It is the ideal setting where Enrico Sangiuliano performs.
The artist’s sound can be described as detailed, layered, deep and ready to travel, proving that he is one of techno’s most reputable fresh producers. Released today, May 5.
The two-track corpus includes punchy bass lines, slippery and DIY synthesizers, catchy lyrics, cinematic melodies, and melodic sounds. Physical replacement is about the inevitability of transformation, says Sangiuliano. Whether it is the dynamics of sound, feelings or pronunciation languages, it is inexorable. He adds that even notes played on one tool differ from the past note and the next note, making the key irreproducible due to the tension in his hands and the way he plays the musical equipment.
“Change is proportionate and happens, whether we like it or not, all the time,” says the sound designer.
The title track begins as an ambient film record before slowly progressing to a more electronic, psychedelic, hypnotic and progressive sound, says Sangiuliano. The goal of the trendsetter is to provide the concept of replacement in the EP. In addition, the most sensitive line indicates “physical replacement” and “chemical replacement,” which is repeated to show that a mutation is occurring.
The other track, “Pulse of Progression”, is the B-side of Physical Change on the vinyl release. The song is a “melodic techno track, very colorful and constantly evolving,” says the producer. “Pulse of Progression” is dynamic and adjusts over time, starting closed before flowering. Then, enter the central vent, where every detail begins to play smoothly before turning into an explosion in crescendo. Certainly, Physical Change turns out to be in a position for the dance floor, and will undoubtedly trample the rhythms of a stripped-down, competitive and functional techno.
Sangiuliano’s philosophy when it comes to making music is to tell a story, which is the catalyst for launching his limited-time label, NINETOZERO. The ephemeral footprint will consist of 10 releases that will count from nine to zero, and once it reaches zero, the seal will close. His purpose for NINETOZERO is to narrate music and have an area to make it explicit. He adds that having his own platform allows him to be absolutely loose to shape the discussion from his point of view. In addition to storytelling, his technique to music production includes reflecting on what he misses at the DJ level.
“What’s the next secret weapon,” he says, “that I can mold for my next exhibitions at a club, at a festival, or [at] a rave?The same happens when I click. As I play music that gives me inspiration and concepts [of] how it reflects on the crowd, [I] think about what I can create next when I’m in the studio. Being a DJ and a producer are two very symbiotic systems in my life, in my balance. .
Linked to NINETOZERO is their SOLO series of events, each of which revolves around a label exit and gives the audience the ideology of ’90s club culture through Sangiuliano’s immersive records. That is, when a DJ plays the entire screen, he learned that he was more dynamic and able to control the stage very well than if he were playing a short film. Slots in a range. He adds that DJing for an hour and part of two hours is a challenge because “you have to focus in a short time and be as hard as possible. “Performing throughout the night allows you to take participants on an expedition across multiple genres. and speeds, such as starting with music without rhythm before slowly accelerating into deeper, harder melodies.
“It’s a total adventure in sound that takes the listener down a path that is very rare to discover,” says Sangiuliano. “It also allows me, as a DJ, to play a lot of things that I would never play. with a shorter popular DJ slot. You can feel it. The atmosphere and power between me and the crowd is crazy. It’s like we’re one thing. It’s a very attractive party to have. “
Enrico Sangiuliano plays at Otro Mundo in Montevideo, Uruguay,
The Emilia-born and raised artist recently worked with his wife, techno queen Charlotte de Witte, on the production of “Reflection. “The single, with a punchy bass, memorable lyrics, alarm sounds and stealthy synthesizers, proves to marry their distinctive sounds. While Sangiuliano says the procedure is fun, it’s also complicated because they have other approaches in the studio: Sangiuliano explores endless possibilities of melodies while De Witte knows exactly what he needs and immediately looks for just those beats.
“The result is a little rougher for my taste [and] a little simpler than [Witte’s] taste,” he says. “But you also feel that there is. . . moments of crescendo, which is typical of my taste, [and] a little more sound design, which is typical of my taste. “
The lyrics “What’s your reflection? Find your direction”, touches the contemplation of yourself in addition to linking you with the sound reflection. The Unmarked went to No. 1 on Beatport, with all of NINETOZERO’s tracks achieving the same feat.
While Sangiuliano’s favorite edition changes frequently, his favorite song at the time of this interview (April 26, 2023) is an upcoming NINETOZERO song. He says that he falls in love with other pieces because they constitute an era of time in which he enters an artistic. dimension. He adds that he never creates a “fill” record.
The trendsetter first entered the world of dance music when he recorded songs on the radio at the age of seven. He was living in northern Italy at the time, and there was a prominent local station there broadcasting live from a successful club nicknamed Number One, located in Brescia. He recorded those sets and separated the recordings by genre: techno, trance, hardcore and drum’n’bass.
“These 4 genres were the first big inspirations of my future,” says the sound designer.
These styles of music that introduced his interest in music proved to be a focal point for the producer. Since his initial interest in dance music, Sangiuliano has continued to dominate dance floors around the world. manufacturers at that time.