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A few summers ago, in Italy, we danced to the notes of Jimmy Sax, a French musician who built a wonderful melody based on Oliver Koletzki’s No Man No Cry, using a base remixed by Worakls, a song that was born on Youtube and reached 31 million streams on Spotify: a winning dynamic of musical remakes and contaminations now at the base of many of our “electronic” age successes.
Together with Lorenzo Benassi and the Origami Studios team we worked for months on a new “violin version”, which would bring the sound closer to my world and give back an international momentum to this song, accompanying it with a video immersed in the nature of Via Mala, between Brescia and Bergamo. It will be released on May 21st and make sure not to miss the LIVESTREAM the evening before, during which I will play it live, present the preview video and ask all my fans to help me share it straight from its debut.
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But what’s the point of dance music in May 2021, after a year in which the lights of the clubs have been dimed and without knowing when they will be turned back on again? It’s a bitter and complex question, but as always, I’ll try to summarize with some personal points of reflections.
While dance and electronic music reaches its peak in the club, festival and aggregation ritual, its importance goes beyond precisely because it manages to synthesize all this.
Like all musical styles, it comforts those who listen to it in the most diverse situations, it’s a medicine that is always ready for use with its purposes and effects.
Dance music has some very important triggers, which is why I chose to focus on this genre with my violin and productions.
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I strongly believe in the virtuous energy circuit that is triggered by nightlife, by leisure, by the freedom of people who meet outside daylight’s conventions and rebalance their way of being and relationships with others at night time, not only as young people but in many stages of life. Night time is important to discover, to grow, to find one’s awareness.
But the “big artists” who believe in what I believe, the top DJs, what have they done to keep the flow that passes through music alive? Here’s a small review of the 5 best ideas in my opinion:
1 David Guetta has focused on charity work linked to huge events: NEW YORK, PARIS, DUBAI, go and see the spectacular events he managed to create https://youtu.be/xaurMcGqZHU
2 Alok is the Brazilian DJ producer who has created a trendy sound in recent years and, in addition to livestreams, he’s managed to keep a rhythm of high-quality productions, I recommend you check them out on TIKTOK and Instagram because, in addition to music, he produces really interesting contents https://www.instagram.com/alok/
3 Benny Benassi is the Italian standard-bearer in the “club” of the world’s top DJ producers, as well as being a sportsman, a lover of nature and a true and humane Emilian native. Absolutely noteworthy, his livestream from the Verona Arena https://youtu.be/eFqfbePlxAI
4 Marshmello perhaps hasn’t yet reached the notoriety here in Italy that he has in the rest of the world, but he remains one of the most innovative artists on the electronic scene. Follow him on Instagram, also because he’s launching an NTF https://www.thisisaito.xyz
5 let’s close with Armin Van Buuren, who doesn’t represent the “old guard” but, rather, with all his ways of producing, labels and remix contests, has certainly shown how a producer known for trance can also have his say in pop, collaborate with many other artists and do it very well, adapting great technical skills to a moment of pause https://alessoavb.lnk.to/LALLIO
Will we get back to dancing soon? Maybe this summer? I hope so, especially after seeing all the space given to the press and “conformist” people who have done nothing but criminalize the so-called “nightlife”, forgetting the importance of fun and aggregation as a fundamental component of life and, therefore, of the health of people and society.
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