Archaic Podcast 363 - Andrea Benedetti

DJ, musician, producer, radio speaker, promoter, journalist and tout-court divulgator of the "electronic message", Andrea Benedetti is involved in the most important realities coming out from Rome since the very early days, he has played a crucial role in shaping and developing the so called "Sound Of Rome". His love for electronic music led him to start his carreer in the '80s as a DJ, spinning electro and electrofunk. While already working in his own recording studio (with Eugenio Vatta), in 1990 he provided his precious help to Lory D in creating SNS - Sounds Never Seen, the first italian experimental techno label, contributing to the first SNS releases (SNS001, SNS002, SNS003 and the 'Antisystem' LP). Then he has released his works since 1991 using different aliases (Sprawl, Skull, New Acid Generation, etc.) and with Eugenio Vatta he is part of Frame, a live-only project which aims to experiment with sounds (in their lives they use quadrophonic sound systems). Always with Eugenio Vatta, he's released an EP on Mystic Records as The Experience. In 1993 he founded his very own Plasmek label (hosting works by such artists as I-F, Anthony Rother and Keith Tucker among the others). Always in 1993 he created Tunnel, the first italian techno music fanzine, and in 1994 he co-founded the Remix Distribution (alongside Marco Passarani) and FinalFrontier (again with long term friend Marco Passarani) the first pool of roman indipendent electronic labels (including Passarani's Nature Records, his own Plasmek, D'Arcangelo's Engine Records, Pigna, X-Forces, Balance Records, etc.). During the years, he's been collaborating with some radio stations in Rome (Radio Città Futura, Mondo Radio, Radio Città Aperta) and magazines (Under One Sky - NY; EAR - Strasbourg; Freestyler - Zurich; Orbeat - Naples; Superfly Roma). He's been also a close collaborator, since its first edition in 1995, of the Distorsonie festival in Bologna, surely the most important electronic music festival in Italy. He has also created with Alessio Arcadi, the ElectRoma festival for roman electronic labels only. Andrea Benedetti is also a regular guest in events, courses and conferences (both as teacher and lecturer), spreading and sharing his knowledge about electronic music. In 2007 he has written a book called MONDO TECHNO about the origins of Techno and its diffusion in Italy that was remixed by Christian Zingales in 2018. https://www.facebook.com/andrea.benedetti.5855 https://www.discogs.com/es/artist/17468-Andrea-Benedetti https://soundcloud.com/andrea-benedetti Tracklist: 1. Honey Dijon feat Josh Caffe “La Femme Fantastique” 2. Gigi Galli feat. Soona “Acid lole” 3. Schuro “Lysergia” 4. Paranoid London “One way ticket to Oblivion” 5. Big Miz “Stay awake” 6. Robert Hood “The struggle” 7. Giri “Above descent” 8. Alessandro Adriani&CosimoDamiano “The side effects of ambitions” 9. Maarten van der Vleuten “Magick” 10. Gary Martin “Samedi” 11. Blake Baxter “I like blue planet” 12. Floorplan “Save the children (Detroit mix)” 13. Optic Nerve “Techno programming (instrumental mix)” 14. Santiago Salazar “Manifest destiny: Denied” 15. Lag “Twitch”