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Featuring Enrico’s massive most-played secret weapon ‘The Techno Code’
Tracks also from Zimmz and Secret Cinema – Get it HERE
Uncompromising, innovative sound designer/producer/live performer Enrico Sangiuliano keeps counting down from ‘NINETOZERO’ on his eponymous transient imprint, with its built-in autodestruct after release #0. New EP ‘Discipline‘, out now, brings us to ‘#2’ as the Italian techno maestro drops the three-tracker (plus a bonus edit). His upcoming all-night-long show at Crobar, Buenos Aires on April 25th sold out in less than 2 hours, following his hugely successful SOLO event at London’s Village Underground in September.
Known for his melodic/driving techno brilliance, Sangiuliano manages to be both an artistic pioneer and a frequent chart-stormer. As well as his startlingly compelling ‘The Techno Code’, Discipline EP includes tracks from Secret Cinema & About Sofiya (‘You Know What I Was Thinking’) and Zimmz (We Build And Reset’) who join Enrico Sangiuliano alongside Charlotte de Witte, Antonio d’Africa, Mattia Saviolo, GMS, Alex Lentini, STOMP BOXX for a release on NINETOZERO.
‘The Techno Code’ (Enrico Sangiuliano ) is both a manifesto and a commentary on the track, on techno itself, with a portentous voiceover announcing ‘These are my rules – the Techno Code’ before describing what’s happening to your ears, feet and brain. There’s an echo of 50s US atom bomb warning films, of Faithless’ ‘This is my church…’, of Hawkwind’s ‘Sonic Attack’. The Voice takes us through the ‘march forward’ of kick drum & hi-hats, the subtly ‘captivating main theme’ with its melodic synths, a squirt of acid, before ‘all elements converge in a powerful surge’, and they do, and it is. There’s a beautiful irony as the refrain of ‘Rules’ and ‘Discipline’ will be accompanied by undisciplined ecstatic ravers on dancefloors worldwide.
‘’The Techno Code’ is built around the theme of discipline. I wanted to create a driving, stripped-down techno track with a voiceover that guides you through it—almost like a set of rules’ Enrico says. ‘The voice, with its slightly arrogant and commanding tone, lays out the structure and meaning of the track, but with a touch of self-irony. It knows it’s leading you through a fat, giant, classic techno track—and that’s what makes it fun. This track was born on the dancefloor. The first raw version debuted at Futur Festival in Turin in July 2024. From there, I kept playing it, refining it, and testing it at almost every show. It became the track I played the most before its release, shaped by real-time energy and feedback.’
‘We Build And Reset’ from Rotterdam’s enigmatic talent Zimmz: a complex beat with building static hiss, melodic pulsating synth layers in an upbeat, bounding main theme adorned with fuzzy stabs and spacey swoops, as an assertive male spoken vocal intones the lyrics. ‘’We Build And Reset’ is a reflection on time in general, about how many of us get lost in the past or in the future and about how important it is to live in the present. This song represents both trust in the future and appreciation of the past.’ Zimmz.
Enrico says, ‘Zimmz offers a cool point of reflection about time in general, about how many of us get lost in the past or in the future and about how important it is to live in the present. Every story, every life cycle will finish at some point, wanting it or not. And only then, a new cycle will rise. Ninetozero was born around this idea, with a precise end set in time.’
‘You Know What I Was Thinking’ from Dutch luminary Secret Cinema & Japanese artist About Sofiya: intriguing soundscape like some alien factory still functioning in an overgrown rainforest – percussion with breaks in it, bongo-like phrases, machine-like yet organic synth strands, occasional vibrato female vocal whispering… more ambient but still danceable. ‘Sofiya had the idea to make a track which will make people imagine ‘Purple’. We made the ‘purple’ layers first, then the beats and other sounds came right after. We measured the key scale, then it was D major and B minor which had the meaning in color spectrum Blue and Red, which makes…purple! Then there is a melody which Jeroen made in one go, the melody itself came out green, we balanced the sounds so it gives contrast to the overall color palette of the track. After balancing, the key of the track became E minor and G major.’ – Secret Cinema & About Sofiya
‘Secret Cinema creates timeless material with unique style. So refined,’ Enrico says. ‘It’s the story and the experience accumulated in a lifetime transformed into sound, it’s a lesson to be heard. You Know What I Was Thinking fits perfectly with the theme of Discipline as this track is an expression of knowledge and wisdom itself.’
‘Discipline’ EP is out now on NINETOZERO. Get it here: https://ninetozero.link/002.
Tracklist:
1. Enrico Sangiuliano – The Techno Code
2. Zimmz – We Build And Reset
3. Secret Cinema & About Sofiya – You Know What I Was Thinking
4. Enrico Sangiuliano – The Techno Code (Edit)
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