Lento Violento

Lento Violento ( Italian for "slow and powerful ") is a style of electronic music that developed in Italy.

Stylistic features

The pace moves in 4/4-time 80-115 BPM. Characteristic is the hard bass, similar to the Hardcore or Hardstyle, but it is played much slower. In addition, vocal samples (usually from the hip- hop field ) used and dark sounds or loops.

Development

The origins of the Lento Violento lie in the nature of Gigi D' Agostino to play slower than usual in his DJ sets songs. He began in the late 1980s so that, for you to discover and enforce this style. After years of development was the first known Lento Violento tune but not by Gigi D' Agostino, but by one of his DJ colleagues. "Ibiza" by Ottomix of 1998 The style was not yet called " Lento Violento ". At this time he was influenced by productions from trance and techno area, such as Lizard or Iguana Mauro Picotto of. Another piece of music with the typical LV- sound was Alex Castelli's "Enjoy", which was co-produced by Ottomix.

First, in the clubs only a few songs were known; the style remained undefined. The style was referred to only as Gigi D' Agostino began with a series of productions. Among his first works LV Voyage ( 1999) or Ripassa (2003) are counted. Gigi D' Agostino it was he who gave the style its name ( he refers to himself as " l' inventore del nuovo mondo "). For him Lento Violento is not only a music genre but a lifestyle. Over time, he refined the style of music in many different directions.

Other artists began to produce similar songs. Significant among them are Daniele Mondello, Luca Noise, DJ Pandolfi or DJ Maxwell. There are also the fans DJs who draw to LV. This, for example, have the opportunity to publish their music under the label of DOS, which brings out at irregular intervals Compilations under the name " Movimento Lento ". On the " Suoni violenti " MySpace page ( Italian: "hard sounds " ) can each night mix sets are owned by different DJs.

Popularity

The greatest level of awareness has the Lento Violento style certainly in Italy, but also in Austria. In Germany and the Czech Republic there seems to be more and more fans of the genre.