Posted by admin on June 18th, 2008 under Club Dance Music

Club DanceLike symbiosis, like the yin and yang, like your left and right hands, there is something both so free and passionate, yet also so technological, somewhat clinical, even precise and methodical about Luciano’s music which onlookers always suggest is a reaction to him moving from Switzerland to Santiago, Chile when he was about 11 or 12. The suggestion that his music is directly correlated to those worlds colliding is not necessarily obtuse. Some parts minimal, deep techno and scientific electro, some parts southern rhythms and colourful melodies, making the identity of his music especially soulful as it seeps from a more alkaline space. “My father used to fix juke boxes for a living so we had many, many records. A lot of disco, some French music, a lot of the hits, but the good hits! We had a lot of music at home, always. Neither of my parents were musicians but they loved music. My mother gave me a guitar when I was younger, that’s when I first started to get into music. She gave it to me when we first moved to Chile. I was by myself often because I didn’t know many people at the beginning. My father is Swiss and my mother is Chilean. I moved from Switzerland to Santiago, Chile when I was about 11 or 12. Because my mother is Chilean, we already knew the language and we were a little bit used to the culture. Still, everything changed completely �” the rules, everything. But the best time of my life was in Chile for sure; I’ve always felt like Chile’s my home. Chile’s really amazing, it’s a beautiful country. Guitar was a really good outlet so I was playing a lot at that time. In school, we had a band and I played in that. It was kind of like punk music, a little bit, and I was the backup singer and guitar player. I wasn’t really singing, more like shouting.” �” Luciano. Club DanceWhile Luciano’s collaborations with Ricardo Villalobos, Pier Bucci and Argenix Brito have possibly resulting in some of the techno’s most cherished music and performances, his beginnings promoting Sense Club and Encuentros con la Technocultura in Santiago Chile amongst other local creative initiators like Senor Coconut aka Atom Heart, Washington Miranda, Microman, and more over Dandy Jack & brother Adrian Schopf, became the start of his career.“My beginnings with electronic music were also in Chile. This was through a really close friendship with a guy called Adrian Schopf, the little brother of Martin Schopf, who is also Dandy Jack. Adrian and I knew each other from school and we were super close. We both decided to start DJing, to make little parties in apartments and things like that. Adrian was always speaking about his brother Martin, who had moved to Germany. Martin once came back from Germany after a long time to visit Chile and we decided to do more parties, like inviting people from outside to DJ. At the beginning, electronic parties did not exist! There were parties in apartments and that was about it. At the very beginning when I first started DJing with Adrian, we were playing at rock places, for example, it’d be like �” a half hour of rock music and then two guys playing records and playing electronic music. At the beginning it was really hard because everyone hated it. Everyone would yell for us to get off and it was really difficult. But then things started to really come along, we started doing one party a month and then the club would allow us to do two parties a month, and then it became every weekend and suddenly the clubs started to open. During around ’92, ’93, ’94 up until 2000 was the whole developing of the scene. I started when I was really young. I think I was starting to make my first parties at 16 or 17. I even sometimes had to hide in the toilets, because I was too young! But it was so much fun. Because I was with Adrian and we were both having the same ideas and we were always sharing music. When we got one new record, it’d be fantastic, we’d cherish it. When I first started DJing, I was getting the records I was getting, you know? Records were really difficult to get in Chile. If you compared the price of one record to what people earned in Chile, it was almost impossible to buy a record. And the records were not arriving �” the only records that we were getting there were salsa or meringue or cumbia, South American music. So getting vinyl from Europe was very, very, very, very hard. Basically we were playing the records that everyone was getting, so we played trance �” not trance like today, but old Goa weird trance �” and music between techno and - I don’t know what! (laughs) It was a mixture of everything we could get. The first time we started to really branch off into one particular sound was when we discovered all of the Detroit stuff. I was a big fan of Derrick (May) and all those guys; I’ve known most of them for a long time. They helped to pull me a little bit at the very beginning, a long time ago, putting out some records I did on Transmat. But before that, maybe in ’94, I remember Martin came back from Europe with Ricardo for us to make a party, this was the first time we met. We’ve known each other for a long time now, it’s really nice.” - LucianoHis treasured releases have spanned labels like Cadenza, Mental Groove Records, Transmat, Perlon, Lo-Fi Stereo, Bruchstuecke and Klang Elektronik paving more of a beloved family following, than a collection of fans and peers. People become innately dedicated to Luciano, likening his work to almost friend-like fond memories than just pieces of music or sets in venues the world over. Trying to house the spirit of this, his freedom with symmetry, his minimal swollen with groove, trying to piece that into a mix for fabric 41 was something that Luciano put a great deal of reflective consideration into, to encapsulate and stay true to his own beautiful sound in such compact medium .Club Dance“For me, the hardest thing to do is make a mix CD. Really. It was a big decision for me to d a CD for fabric. To me, mixing is about the live moments, it’s about the moment you live with the people: that’s why you choose one record, and this is how you push the music. So to make a mix CD and already have a playlist in my head, it’s something that disturbs me. Then I know I have to play this and that; I feel obliged to do something rather than feeling free to just create something. It was really difficult for me. I always try to think, ‘what music do I like?’ and I try to make something a bit more natural. Not too soft or too thin, and not screaming either, but to mix both together. I try to use also a lot of tools, some elements that I can put in and put out, so it’s more like a composition, but it’s still very tough to make a mix feel right. I took a very dance-approach and I tried to make a sort of crescendo, music-wise. It starts a little bit deeper with fewer elements and slowly it modifies and modulates into something more charged and more rhythmic.” �” Luciano

Tracklisting:

01. Rhadoo �” Slagare �” Cadenza Records

02. Brothers’ Vibe �” El Baile [Acapella]�” Som Underground

03. D’Julz �” Yo Momo �” Intacto Records

04. Los Updates Ft. Luciano �” Getting Late [Luciano’s Getting Late Remix] �” Candenza Records

05. Reboot �” Be Tougher �” Cadenza Records

06. Alex Picone �” Floppy �” Cadenza Records

07. Sety �” Mogane (Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts Remix) �” Circus Company

08. Johnny D �” Orbitalife �” Oslo Records

09. Julien Jabre �” Jungle Beatz �” Defected

10. M83 �” In Church �” Gooom Disques

11. Inner City �” Good Love [Luciano Remix] �” KMS

12. Phuture �” Rise From Your Grave [Tiefschwarz Remix] �” Strictly Rhythm

13. Schneider, Galluzzi �” Albertino �” Cadenza Records

14. D’Julz �” So You Know �” Ovum

15. Kenny Larkin �” You Are Original �” Planet E

16. Chymera �” Arabesque - TishomingoRelease Dates: fabricfirst Members: 02/07/08 UK/R.O.W. Retail: 14/07/08 USA: 08/05/08To listen to ‘FABRIC 41′ online visit: http://www.fabriclondon.com/previews/fabric41 (password required)References: http://www.fabriclondon.com/

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