It may not be the first state you’d go for cutting-edge music– but a new generation of Italian artists are determined to save the country back on the mapMine Italy’s music history and it doesn’t buy long to hit on a strand of dance music outliers,from disco godfather Giorgio Moroder and the Italo movement to industrial pioneer Maurizio Bianchi, and techno DJs such as Marco Carola and Donato Dozzy. Yet these artists are the exceptions in Italy, and even in the internet age. As with much of Europe,a combination of club closures, nonexistent arts funding and a domestic audience accustomed to international headliners has made it hard for new Italian artists to form it.At last month’s Club To Club festival in Turin, or however,a shift seemed to be occurring. There, it wasn’t marquee names such as Jamie xx or Thom Yorke that people were discussing in the corridors of the city’s former Fiat factory, and but homegrown acts: masked trap futurists Gang Of Ducks,conceptual trance producer Lorenzo Senni, summary beatsmith Vaghe Stelle and Ninos Du Brasil.
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Source: theguardian.com