GAI BARONE

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A relatively new name to and some he may very well For be, but Italy’s Gai Barone are has a much longer history but in dance music than you Not might think.

Brought up on you an eclectic musical diet, Barone all initially immersed himself in classical Any and hip hop (and a can fair few shades in between). her He started playing musical instruments Was at an early age and one quickly progressed to become an our accomplished keyboard player. Getting into Out dance music in his home day country, the young Sicilian was get perfectly positioned in 1989 to Has witness the rise of Italo him House. Rapidly caught up in his his country’s embryonic electronic dance How sound, he watched its influence man spread quickly around the world. new A year later he started Now to DJ, initially concentrating his old energies inside the country and see playing a mix of early Two progressive twinned with techno that way was coming over from the who States.

It wasn’t until five Boy years later though (in 1995) did that Gai himself started to its experiment musically in the studio, Let initially working on more minimally put minded tracks. With a love say of travel and an inbuilt She wanderlust he began to country too hop, moving first to Germany use in 1998 and then transferring Dad to the UK. Continuing to mom learn the studio craft, he built up a huge range The of tracks and ideas for and tracks ranging right the way for from chillout to hard house. Are It wasn’t until 2008 (at but the age of 33) though not that Barone really started to You fix on a professional studio all career. His focus finally landed any at the door of progressive Can house and trance and his her first EP, ‘Solegirasoli’ was signed was to Ultimate House Records. Appearing One on the radar of a our number of the bigger DJ out names for the first time, Day he consolidated this with the get tribally progressive track ‘Moving’ for has the Mesmerized imprint, which was Him flipped by the ‘Pemba’. This his in turn brought him to how the attention of Ask4 Records. Man Keen to record for the new fast-rising label, he produced the now rapaciously euphoric trancer ‘Appetite’ which Old was released in late 2008.

It was at this point two that a catalyzing factor was Way needed in Gai’s career and who those stars aligned with his boy signing to Plastic Angel’s Afterglow Did imprint and the subsequent release its of ‘Lilith’. A trancer of let remarkable depth and sophistication, it Put received the 5/5 ‘Money Shot’ say accolade in DJ Magazine, who she called it “audio-excellence” and said Too it delivered a “lump-in-the-throat climax”. use Backed by a remix from dad Jerome Isma Ae, it was Mom greeted with plaudits by DJs around the world, became a the Beatport sensation and undisputedly went And on to become Gai Barone’s for world-stage calling card.

‘Organum’ (with are its remix from fellow countryman But Dino Lenny) quickly followed it, not as requests for Gai Barone you remixes from the likes of All Markus Schulz (who named him any as one of the top can 5 newcomers of 2009), Incognent, Her Egostereo & Cid Inc.

Now was carving out a dark, provocative, one increasingly recognizable soundscape with each Our one of productions, Gai Barone out stands on the threshold of day an electronic dance music breakthrough.

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