Have I captured your already scarce attention with the headline? Has it given you a "yes I knew it Goddammit!" feeling?!? Good, than all those years reading tabloids have finally paid off. But the reasons for your reaction may be rooted deeper than you think:Has it happened that you've felt a rush of blood to the head when you saw this year's DJ mag poll? Did you start getting all abusive in front of yer computer...eerrr, or just as yours faithful here, dismissed them instantly as being the results from 2009?
Yeah, I know, it was more like all of the three above into one, wasn't it?!?
This post is certainly not gonna go into the actual names and positions (don't think porno yet, please!:) of this yearly popularity contest; but use it as an excuse, a smoke screen if you prefer, to introduce you to a unique and truly charismatic dj, one that has been talked about in all the languages of the world: techno innovator, party animal (I'd like to hear this said in Spanish:) by night, but also a down to earth regular family man by day! No, we're not talking about American psycho you...psychos, we're talking about Luciano, the mustache wearing, police swearing and techno innovating dj: great music and great personality into one package. He doesn't look that bad either, right ?!?
Well, I must admit that until recently I wasn't into Luciano a great deal. As one that prides himself with skillfully rejecting the pr bullshit that music mags constantly push out, I remember first reading about Luciano a few years back, in the, then pretty good, Mixmag. I thought: "naaah, not really my style. pass!" Of course those were the times when I was skillfully assassinating millions of brain cells every weekend and abusing the very definition of "weekend"
But something happened...now, when "the results" of this year's Dj mag contest revealed Luciano to be on the very tail end of it, something insuide me happened. Call it sympathy for the underdog or just simply "growing up" I decided I need to give this guy a listen. I was aware that this guy is not exactly the symbol of underdog..ism (again, don't think porno, pleeease!), as he's selling out arenas from Chile to Bucharest, gigging every weekend 2-3 nights probably booked ahead for the next 5 years! But for me, as an outsider to his music, he just was.
Fabric 41_Luciano mix by Triplefiltered
I'd dig up a recent mix Luciano's done for Fabric, more exactly in 2008, a 16 track journey from techno to house, from tribal to melodic and beyond. Beautifully crafted, this is one of those mixes that even listened every morning for the past 5 days, (sometimes even 2 times a day!) just fails to become boring. It's so well put together that there's a new feeling you'll get from every listen. Tracks from Rhadoo to Reboot, Alex Picone, groovy latin Brothers' Vibe to a simply amazing Luciano mix of Inner City's "Good Love".
Listen to it, listen to it and then listen to it some more. It is just a landmark. And don't skip tracks! whatever you do...never skip tracks! let the mix do its thing: just click play at the beginning and let your ears do the rest. And after that let's all meet and pour some gasoline on a pile of DJ mags and burn'em out.
We don't need no water, let the motherf*cker burn,
Burn motherf*ckerrrrr
Burn!
Some good stuff on Luciano:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?881
http://soundcloud.com/electro-mix-memory/sets/luciano-mixes-lives
