OUR WORLD
I approached the discos world when I was a boy, but it was 1993 when I have been dazzled by this universe, when some friends of mine took me to the Imperiale club of Tirrenia, in Tuscany… A never heard sound came into my brain, a never felt world rushed into my heart… A boundless music ranging you far and wide by unexpected sonorities… The atmosphere was enchanted: everybody wanted to enjoy himself without any negative thought: eccentric people trying to stand out thanks to their peculiar style instead of conforming to the current fashion. It was the first time I heard the word “TENDENZA” (more ore less translatable as “tendency”): a philosophy, not a trend…

DJs & CLUBS
The “crisis of abstinence” came at once: it was a world to live, to suck and so I started going to Duplè, to The West, to Taverna Jori, again to the Imperiale, the Insomnia and the Jaiss… many names on the flyers are the same still at the top: Paolo Kighine, Roberto Francesconi, Ricky le Roy, Gabry Fasano, Mario Più, Franchino, Zicky il Giullare, Francesco Farfa, Joy Kitikonti, Miki il Delfino, Luca Pechino, Sandro Vibot, Roby J… others are missing by now, and other new friends have come… But how can we forget the kind of music they played… and the emotions they gave?

MEETINGS & FRIENDS
It was great to frequent the clubs as a guest but it wasn’t enough to me and so I started meeting all the artists joining the Progressive scene in that period; the Imperiale staff asked me to care about its public relations in Milan, but I soon realized that it was not a job suitable to me; I got some engagements for some of them and so I often kept in touch with many artists by phone. In this way I met a person who is nowadays a reference point in my life…

PAOLO KIGHINE
I knew Paolo by phone in 1995 and I was struck very much by his personality, we met a few months later and a strong tie began between us, one of those few friendships fit to be called like that. I started to go with him to almost all the clubs where he had to perform, at first as free-lance, afterwards as resident DJ at the Imperiale then as resident DJ at the Jaiss and this is a whim that I still satisfy every now and then. I won’t talk about our relationship, I’m fond of him and I know that I’ve been very well influenced by him in my growth, he surely helped me to improve my human and artistic behaviour and I just can be very grateful to him. Anyway, talking about him as an artist, in my opinion he is the greatest Italian DJ in the Techno scene. Living next to him made me so fond of music to desire to touch it, to breathe it…that’s why I got the mythical Technics 1210, mixer, headphones, stylus and lots and lots of vinyls… At that very moment as a late self-taught I did realize the meaning of…

…BEING A DJ
The DJ is not someone playing music in a disco every Saturday…there’s someone who is not a DJ even if he plays, there’s someone who is a DJ even if he never performs in the discos… in my opinion I do feel I am a DJ… I adore being the means used by people to have fun, to see people dancing and smiling thanks to me… this excites me a lot. I think this is a quite indescribable feeling… I had the greatest satisfaction of playing at the opening of a club in Tuscany: I played after Paolo while Francesconi was handling the mic…I could never really wish anything better than that.

CHOICES
It didn’t last for a long time as in 2000 I faced up a completely different project that took me away from the Techno world (Progressive was already out). I opened a place in Milan, a disco-pub in partnership with a friend of mine: during that period our life was impossible, working day and night, we hardly slept more than three hours a night… everything turned into a vortex… we couldn’t stand such a life anymore so, after two years, we decided to shut up shop, convinced that life should have been less frenetic and that we surely needed to give our mind and private life a rest. In 2005 I approached again the nightlife thanks to Internet and its forums, Paolo’s one most of all, where you can still meet me every day.

VINYLS 4EVER
I found a completely new musical world: in 2000 music banged, Techno was characterized by hard bass; in 2005 everything has changed: it doesn’t sound weird to me, styles like Minimal and Electro are popular; they represent the music evolutions happened during the five years I was out… Music cyclically changes, the contrast between old and new will give rise to new sonority evolutions, in the future we’ll see the hard bass back and then other new developments… waves… And we’ll buy more and more vinyls… and we’ll always offer music…

NOWADAYS
We could meet each other…each of you… during some nights around Italy… The night world is so charming and slightly malicious… and I do hope to find a new friend in everyone…

Love

niki