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Hi and Welcome to ITALO MODERNI mixes.
Starting the weekend with our local hero Serkin aka 1985 @serkinmusic we can listen a mix influenced by the most mystical electro and with very catchy strings, we always like to support local talent and Serkin has spent many years supporting artists in the electronic scene. Boss from Celobert Festival has brought Adrian Marth to play on Live set in its last edition. It is a pleasure to listen to this mix made expressly for IM and on vinyl. Have a good weekend!
Bio Serkin aka 1985:
Almost two decades after his initial foray into the Barcelona underground scene, Kevin Schwantz has maintained the same vision of electronics as fuel for social change.
He currently started his own label called Tourian records. The first release was produced under his new alias 1985, there are already two references that you can find and for the next few months a new release will come out, it has a great alliance where there will be collaborations with artists such as Spear, Pablo Leon, Dark Vektor, Mynationshit, The Bandit, Pelacha or The Zenobit3.
It has also been released on well-known labels such as Redsonja Records, which has just released in its last release on vinyl, a track titled “Something in the Sky” for Visionary02 with Pelacha, Error Etica and Trømmel, obtaining feedbacks from well-known artists of the scene. world.
Other labels where you can also hear his work are Solemne Records (Uk / Nottingham) with two appearances in their VA and a full Ep on the way. There is also Voko records (Ibiza) or the Dutch label run by the well-known DJ and producer from Eindhoven, Gideon, LessisMore Recordings.
At the same time, after his Techno project under the pseudonym Serkin, he continues to be involved in the management and planning of events for the Technodrome Barcelona collective that he has represented since 2009 and with which he fights against all odds to present, in accordance with his ideals and principles, a musical alternative above all for the city of Barcelona and with serious content with a very authentic and original “underground” base in its programs.
In recent years it is when he rethinks his project, giving birth to a lot of material and with total constancy inside and outside the studio, a firmer projection. At national and international level, Kevin has performed in such special and emblematic places as Tresor Club (Berlin), Stardust Club x DVST (Madrid), Le Rachdingue (Figueres), United Club (Turin), Apolo or Moog Club (Barcelona) where Its Technodrome nights are maintained and prosperous, other places also essential in our scene such as Garage of The Bass Valley (Barcelona) or Razzmatazz / The Loft (Barcelona), in addition to having an agenda that is expanding with sessions inside and outside our country in the next few months.
His work as a graphic designer with a degree in illustration and comics broadens his artistic spectrum and the versatility that characterizes him, with various jobs that he occupies creating "covers" and designing graphics for different agencies in projects of different cultural nature.
Finally, together with the support of his regular partners, he directs and manages the Celobert festival, experimental electronic music days focused on supporting and promoting the many artists who have left the recent and emerging national scene, focused on releasing and promoting art. less seen but with a wide content where in addition to the pampered, selective or far-fetched and original program, sound and visual design and the plastic arts go hand in hand in varied projects with common links with a very broad approach and with a focus on new proposals that grow in our country and that are of a cultural, rich and above all very important interest for the local musical ecosystem where the festival was born and developed.
- Genre
- Electronic