This is Techno Jazz with Fabrizio Rat (Live), Mattia Prete, Resonances (Live), Do You Know Juno

Who they are

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  Fabrizio Rat - La Machina

  Paris, France

  “Fabrizio Rat has clear ideas. « My project is simple» he affirms. « Take a piano, the classic and romantic instrument par excellence, and project it into the hypnotic and powerful soundscape of techno music ».”

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  Fabrizio Rat has clear ideas. « My project is simple» he affirms. « Take a piano, the classic and romantic instrument par excellence, and project it into the hypnotic and powerful soundscape of techno music ». As a matter of fact, Fabrizio comes from a double background. He’s a classically trained pianist who practised improvisation and composed contemporary music, but since his teenage years he has produced electronic music, and spent hours and days with computer, synthesisers and drum machines. Beyond the Keyboard « After many years of practice my musical path seemed to be planned. ». « The ‘traditional’ way of playing the piano had bored me. I knew too well the instrument, I couldn’t be creative any more with the codes and rules I had learnt. I was looking for a new way to approach the instrument, a balance between chance and control, similar to the feeling you get by working instinctively on synthesizers. I realized I had many things to learn from analogue electronic instruments, which represent more than just strictness and precision. These machines, far from being ‘perfect’, almost have feelings I believe, and they behave unexpectedly and unpredictably at times. I thought that by studying and trying to discover their secrets I might be able to push to new boundaries my ‘machine’ from the very beginning, the piano. » Since his teenage years Fabrizio has worked simultaneously on both classical and electronic music productions. He’s definitely not the classical music guy who has just discovered techno. Throughout his apprentice years at the musical academy in Turin he was working as a producer in dance music studios at the same time ( « commercial stuff » he admits ), hiding his ‘double life’ to both the professors, and the DJs. Arriving in Paris in 2007 his objective starts to take shape. « I always had this idea to do electronic music you can dance to, techno, with acoustic instruments, and especially with the piano. » In 2010 he starts a first band called Jukebox, then Cabaret Contemporain, an ensemble of technoid music with 2 double basses, guitar, drum and piano. Static techno Following two Eps, ‘’La Machina’’ and ‘’Technopiano’’, Fabrizio Rat releases his first album of hybrid techno, with an innovative sound palette. The Pianist combines the acoustic sounds and weird harmonics of his prepared piano with the acid loops of the TB-303 and the beats of the TR-909. « I’m much attracted by a certain type of techno, based on the purity of sound. This music can really approach abstraction, the immateriality of thought and ideas. » A track like “Aimard”, for example, is characteristic of his ambition. « It’s a sort of tunnel. It does not develop apart from a few ‘turning points’, in a similar way to lots of tracks by Jeff Mills, who has been a big inspiration to me for a long time. I feel attracted to his radical approach to techno and his taste of sonic exploration. Many tracks by him have an incredible character. As the records starts, you’re all of a sudden facing a new world. That’s exactly what I am most interested in, to find a strong vibe of a track, much more then constructing a form with evolution and surprises. » “Gould”, just before “Aimard” in the record, has the same strength but plays with rhythmic elements in a more subtle way. « It’s not really techno, but still hypnotic. The first version of it had lots of 909 in it, which has been little by little removed, following the advices of Arnaud Rebotini who co-produced the album and released it on his label. Arnaud pushed me towards a more radical and extreme direction, putting the piano on the forefront and simplifying the rhythmical patterns, to be more effective. This gives to the final result more impact I think. » Recipes for prepared piano One of the main keys to understanding Fabrizio’s work is the preparation of his piano, inspired by the great Italian double bass player Stefano Scodanibbio. Avant-garde composer John Cage had initiated the “prepared piano” practice in the 40s by placing different types of objects (metal, wood, paper, wood…) on or between strings. The piano’s timbre is then altered into a more percussive direction, transforming pitch, intensity and resonance of each note. « I use for example packaging tape, which generates a sort of natural saturation while vibrating. I also use plastic rulers on the low strings, to generate a sort of white noise, and I struck small sticks on strings and tuning pins to create percussive sounds. I also use a lot blu-tac (Patafix), which I put on specific points of the string to obtain harmonics. I also use it to damp the lowest string of piano to produce a sort of kick-drum sound ». Pianists trend Fabrizio Rat is not the only pianist who tries to renew the approach towards the instrument. Over the last 10 years, interpreters and composers like Francesco Tristano, Nils Frahm, Hauschka, Guillaume Flamen, Grandbrothers and the Vanessa Wagner-Murcof duo have crossed the path of classical and electronic music. Even if he appreciates some of them, Fabrizio moves away from that trend, to approach a much more radical techno. « I want to be in the loop, into the hypnotic process, and that’s it. I don’t want the instrument to be recognizable, people to say: « It’s a cover of that techno track on the piano » Eventually, I feel much more connected with artists of the techno scene like Ø Phase or Donato Dozzy. » Unsurprisingly, it’s in front of the dancefloor, in clubs or festivals, that Fabrizio plays his live sets. With the right hand he plays repetitive rhythmical patterns while the left one handles the machines (effects, TB-303, TR-8) and manipulates the piano strings. His goal is to reach « the trance, to project on the dancers the hypnotic state of my right hand moving on the piano ».
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  Their RA profile lists Versatile Records, Blackstrobe Records, Involve, Optimo Trax and 6 more.

• Nory Kimijima

  Tokyo, Japan

  “He Started playing as a guitarist at 2002, and became a bassist at 2004.”

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  He Started playing as a guitarist at 2002, and became a bassist at 2004. He’ve been play as a bassist on individual Rock band. in 2012, he jumped out from Japan, and started traveling at Australia, Toronto and New York. He has experienced busking and music sessions with local musicians on subways and streets. Obtain an inspiration from different variety of the sounds by country’s and cultures while he traveling. In 2014, backed to Japan, and he started a Track making, providing music for domestic and international artists, producing, arranging and performing a live. in 2019, Released 1st Album”Sequence” and also started an organize a party “AQUA” in Tokyo. In his own music, based on the edgy musical approach of Electronica / glitch / idm, dynamic modular synths and beats are intertwined. Field recordings of environmental and everyday sounds are interspersed throughout the music, expressing a worldview brimming with originality.
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  Their RA profile lists AKASHA MX and COCAG Records.

• Do you know Juno

  Berlin · 34 bookings since Aug 2025

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  Recently at Bulbul Berlin, arkaoda Berlin, Crack Bellmer · often with Mat Fink, Mark Gill, ·gabriel·, none of them here that night

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  Mattia Prete

  South, Italy · 3 bookings since Aug 2025

  “Inspired by the unbridled creativity of these genres, Prete’s work in the studio is infused with sci-fi futurism and the immersive, expansive nature of film soundtracks, resulting in a unique sound that has gained him acclaimed support from the international underground scene.”

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  Inspired by the unbridled creativity of these genres, Prete’s work in the studio is infused with sci-fi futurism and the immersive, expansive nature of film soundtracks, resulting in a unique sound that has gained him acclaimed support from the international underground scene. He signed his debut with “Moon, Please Don’t Go Away” in 2020 on Jazzotech, the label he manages, and has since released a vinyl EP titled “Life is Waiting” on the experimental “Faith Disciplines” label, as well as a series of singles such as “Palettes” and “Zamovliannia” which featured classical musicians from some of the Dnipro’s Philharmonie. As the label manager and A&R of Jazzotech, Prete has laid the foundation for a new club scene through the creation of original productions and live events featuring jazzists and electronic musicians. One of his most inspiring projects is the Double LP “This is Techno Jazz,” which brings together artists like Stanislav Tolkachev working with Finnish band Himanen & Kinnunen, Katharina Ernst with Spanish techno innovator Reeko, Tensal with Turin jazz band TUN, Fabrizio Rat, and trombonist Gianluca Petrella, among others. This project has also inspired a party of the same name at Kantine Am Berghain and Sage beach, featuring legends and innovators such as Matthew Herbert, Fabrizio Rat, and Studnitzky. As a DJ, Prete has a broad sound and uses silence as a tool to increase the dynamics of his music, selecting fluid and selective genres such as Techno, Modern Classical, Jazz, Electronica, and Broken Beat, always built on strongly propulsive grooves. He likes to take risks and experiment in all kinds of situations, as he has learned from hundreds of hours as a resident at Amigdala, one of Rome’s most prestigious parties. As part of the Beat Movement project (from 2010 to 2020), he has toured the best clubs in Europe, from Tresor to Griessmuhle in Berlin, from Street Party Pristina in Kosovo to Lärm in Budapest and the Moog Club in Barcelona, releasing music with acclaimed techno artists such as Umwelt, Tolkachev, Mulero, Sharpe, and Shxcxhxchxhchx. Prete recently co-founded the Garden 505 recording studio and his 505 band project with Daniel Calvi, aiming to redefine electronic rhythms with a more sensitive triphop sound, using live electronics and organic instruments to give his grooves a trippy detail or electric texture that makes them even more engaging and enchanting.
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  Their RA profile lists Jazz-O-Tech and Aurora..

  Recently at Daidarabotchi Studio · often with Donna, Frivolous, Piotr Bejnar, none of them here that night

• Resonances