Track of the Day: Enrico Sangiuliano - Moon Rocks
With our guests ANEK busy traveling and playing a ton of shows at the moment we'll have to wait a bit longer for my interview and the tracklist from their mix to come out. So today we're going to deviate a bit and have some fun with Techno! I had some time on Monday evening to put together a mix of my own and I ended up choosing this tune by Enrico Sangiuliano called 'Moon Rocks' and it is an absolute demon!
Enrico Sangiuliano - Moon Rocks
A superb driving kick and raspy snare and rim combo set this beast of a tune in motion right of the bat. A well placed clapper shifts around the head space to create some nice separation in the percussion arrangement. A mean bass drone adds color to a relentless groove to round out the opening bars of the composition. Layer upon layer of percussive elements, panning FXs and other atmospherics are acutely placed into the arrangement demonstrating Sangiuliano's knack for production perfection. Additional, aggressive bass pads make their way into the fold as the track works it's way to the first breakdown. A reverbed bell rings into the foreground before we are launched into the main portion of the track. Stabbing synths decorate the chorus while an eerie chord echoes in with chilling effect, creating so much amazing depth in the soundscape. The song really progresses nicely after the main breakdown combining all of the elements that were introduced in various moments of the initial composition. This is one to get the crowd pumping and those drops will send them into a dance frenzy.Check out the full EP here, trust me it will not disappoint you:When you've got a guy like Mauro Picotto touting your production abilities and labels like Drumcode, Truesoul and Octopus Recordings, to name a few, picking tracks up for distribution I think it's cut and dry that Enrico is at the top of his game at the moment. He built his reputation early on in his home country of Italy through numerous Djing gigs in the early 2000s playing out unreleased tracks to receptive crowds. If you're at Techno show anywhere in the world there's a good chance the likes of Adam Beyer, UMEK, Monika Kruse, Gregor Tresher, and so on will drop one of his tracks. Case in point below as Beyer closed out his set at Awakenings this year with 'Moon Rocks'.I don't usually copy and paste bio's (mainly because their full of fluff and boring as shit) but this opening paragraph in Enrico's is priceless:"Enrico Sangiuliano is a Producer, Performer & Sound Designer born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the exact period is not quite known to experts. Little Enrico spent his childhood manifesting a particular adoration for percussion, creating real performances on pots and pans, school benches, traffic signs and the drums. After hitting any kind of existing material he realized that computers could create sounds on surfaces unknown to reality and make them reverberate in virtual non-existent spaces."To get a feel for his immersive style of techno look no further.Enjoy,MR PUZL