Piezo
Piezo is a Milanese sonic troublemaker with a knack for twisting dance music into bold, brain-tickling shapes. He combines futuristic rhythms and sound-system intensity with a psychedelic flair, honed through his time spent in Bristol during the mid '10s, with releases on key UK labels like Swamp81 and Wisdom Teeth, his own Ansia imprint and more recently the Dekmantel powerhouse.
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Scaling the liminal nexus of UK club futurism with tempoless inhibitions and adventurous textures in sound, Piezo explores the kinetic infinites of dance music’s vast permutations.
Luca Mucci's output as Piezo revels in the hi-def synthetics of sound sculpting, pirouetting through off-kilter frameworks of total dance crud in a remarkable multiplicity of psychedelic variations.
Cast from the embers of dubstep’s heyday experienced from his native home of Milan,
he temporary relocated to Bristol enjoying an immersive spell in the city’s legendary sound system culture and vibrant alternative music community.
Releases on British labels Idle Hands, Swamp81 and Facta & K-Lone's Wisdom Teeth followed, plus a turn for Orson's Version imprint based out of Berlin.
Ansia was founded by Piezo in the midst of this, a label acting as his creative appendage for wild dancefloor tools by himself and fellow club deviants characterised by a mischievous attitude and wry humour to both composition
and sound design.
It is currently 8 releases deep, featuring a mix of various artist compilations and solo turns from Luca himself, including 2023’s ‘Odd Hooks’.
Following that, he makes an exciting debut for kindred dance futurists Nervous Horizon with the critically acclaimed ‘Cyclic Wavez’ EP.
2024 sees an exciting evolution in Piezo’s career after the release of his remix of Objekt’s legendary track ‘Ganzfeld’ on its 10-year anniversary,
and a solo EP on Dekmantel’s UFO series: this 4-tracker reflects Luca’s growing interest in
hi-energy hi-bpm percussive rollers, combining his natural tendency to futuristic rhythms with a nod to old-school atmospheres and melodies.
This style also characterises his brand new live-set, which was premiered at MUTEK Montreal.
Piezo weighs all of these influences and experiences together with a ferocious appetite for perc-y wrigglers in his celebrated DJ sets and mixes.
Applying his limitless ideology to open ended dancefloor narratives, he traverses wild bpms and styles with a remarkable flair best exemplified in sets at Terraforma Festival, Rural Japan and Nowadays NYC and mixes for Animalia, Crack Magazine and DJ Mag’s Recognise Series.
