RELEASE: The Aquaplano Sessions
ARTIST(S): Donato Dozzy & Nuel
REMIXERS:
LABEL: Spectrum Spools | SP033
GENRE: LOSSLESS, Electronica
RELEASED: 2014-03-03
AVAILABLE FORMAT: 912Kbps/LOSSLESS
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 270.70 MB
TOTAL TRACKS 8
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 1 (04:54) key, bpm96
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 2 (05:23) key, bpm127
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 3 (05:53) key, bpm120
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 4 (05:55) key, bpm125
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 5 (06:53) key, bpm100
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 6 (05:33) key, bpm124
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 7 (05:30) key, bpm116
- Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 8 (05:26) key, bpm104
Total Playtime: 00:45:27 min
Featuring Donato Dozzy & Nuel on Spectrum Spools
Italian producer Donato Scaramuzzi operates under the Donato Dozzy moniker, releasing music since 2010. His output spans raw hypnotic techno and ambient electronica across labels including Tresor Records, Spazio Disponibile, and Samurai Music.
Manuel Fogliata operates as Nuel, an electronic music producer from Rimini, Italy. His releases span ambient textures and peak-time techno across Further Records, Semantica Records, Apollo, and Spectrum Spools.
All music produced and mixed by Donato Scaramuzzi & Manuel Fogliata at Nautical One Studio in San Felice Cireco, Italy between 2007 and 2008
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, December 2013
When the Aquaplano records were first released in 2008 and 2009, emerging out of Hardwax with little fanfare, they were distinctly out of step with the way techno appeared to be heading. The minimal detour was reaching its logical endpoint, and producers were returning to the 1990s for inspiration, with Berghain and Sandwell District at the vanguard of a new techno movement. What the Aquaplano sessions shared in common were slower BPMs and finding inspiration in the 1990s, but there they parted ways. The influences these Italians were drawing on were rather different, returning to tribal rhythms and ambient textures to sketch out a much more heady, psychedelic form of techno. The results were a perfect balance of hypnotic beats and swirling atmosphere geared for a broken-in dancefloor or the hazy afterhours. Across these two records Dozzy and Nuel would go a long way towards creating the template for a brand of deep, atmospheric techno that has become much more prominent in the years since. And while many have sought to imitate this sound, few – if any – have matched what first emerged from the Aquaplano sessions. After only being available in a very limited run, it is fitting that the sonic blueprints provided by Dozzy and Nuel are now available again – and much more widely – at a time when their influence is as strong as it has ever been.//