Sonno Zero

Raffayellow (Bdivision)

Release date: 09.12.2009

Music Style: Minimal-Tech

Article No.: 10010172

Raffayellow was born in 1977 in Rome, Italy. His passion for electronic music begins already in the 80s, by listening to the synthetic melodies of artists like Depeche Mode, Alphaville and New Order, as well as the tunes of the Italo Disco era. As a teenager he gets infected by the underground techno production from his hometown; at the age of 15 he starts DJing in rave parties, joining the Hard Raptus collective, a point of reference in Rome's underground techno movement. During the following years, he plays mainly hardtek and tribetech, while experimenting in music production with the mythical Fast Tracker and Impulse Tracker software. He also decides to buy some gear: a Yamaha RM1-X and the Korg Electribes ES-1 and EA-1; with this setup he plays live gigs at dozens of free parties. In 2002, following the urge to discover some more world, he decides to move to Barcelona, where he still lives and works. As soon as he arrives in Barcelona he joins Sound Confundent, the first hardtek soundsystem from Catalonia. He plays with them for a couple of years, organizing rave parties inside and around Barcelona. In 2005, always looking for new stimuli in electronic music, he gets deeply interested with the new techno and minimal productions coming from central and northern Europe. He begins to play slower, deeper tracks, and starts to melt his hard techno roots with a new, more adult style. In 2007 he rents a dismissed factory with a good friend; together they transform an abandoned place into a creative space for audio and video production. Having finally found some stability, he decides to take music production seriously. By the end of 2008 he finishes his first EP, "Solaria EP", soon to be followed by His second EP, "Uplift EP" in the beginning of 2009. He is currently DJing and producing sharp, melodic techno tunes with influences ranging from minimal tech and tech house to electro and italo disco.