Podcast #103 - Lorenzo Papini [UK]

Virtual Underground

Virtual Underground presenting Lorenzo Papini @lorenzo_papini Interview : Virtual Underground : How has this Lorenzo Papini story started ? Lorenzo Papini : My story has started around one year and and half ago. I’ve always loved digging into Techno and (a bit later) Industrial Techno and I’ve dedicated most of my recent life on looking and listening to a lot of new music every day just as pure passion. This, alongside the various techno and (more recently) industrial techno scene in London, also helped me to build my own prospective of Industrial Techno. So at some point, also thanks to some friends who pushed me in this direction and taught me how to DJ, I felt the need to start and share with people my own idea of music. Virtual Underground : Where do you draw your inspiration from ? Lorenzo Papini : I mainly draw my inspiration from the Industrial Techno scene itself and among my favourite DJs/Producers I can surely name Axel Picodot, Paramod and OGUZ even tho it’s very difficult to make a narrow selection of artists at the moment. I also follow with big interest Gabber and Hardtechno waves. Virtual Underground :Could you describe your music selection and mixing process ? Lorenzo Papini : I see my vision of Industrial Techno as a journey through the darkest and fastest side of 4/4 techno with acid, acidcore, gabber, hardtechno and hardcore influences and my music selection has based on this idea. When I record a podcast I see it as an escalation from Techno to Hardcore with a lot of different influences in between and doing so I try to offer a 360 degree vision of my sound. Virtual Underground :Which software/hardware did you use for this set ? Lorenzo Papini : I used an Allen & Heat Xone 92 mixer, an Allen & Heath Xone K2 MIDI controller and a MacBook Pro to run Traktor Pro 3.0. Virtual Underground : What are your next plans ? Lorenzo Papini : My next most important plan is surely contributing to the scene with my first releases and regarding it I have a 3 tracks EP ready to go out on January. I’m already working on new projects and my goal would be to release 8/10 tracks by the end of 2020. Looking ahead I also have other plans in mind but right now I feel all my focus need to be on producing even tho I won’t stop releasing podcast as it’s something I really love to do!