Luca Bacchetti

Luca Bacchetti is the first to admit it. Just as musical inspiration runs through his veins and is his very lifeblood, so too is a certain restlessness and a propensity for boredom for a singular musical output that accompanies it. There’s simply too much music to draw from and too much beauty in life that inspires creative expression – whether it be from art or through travel, both of which he embraces with the same lust that accompanies his inspiring sonic shapeshifting career over the past decade.

Pay a visit to his apartment in Barrio Gotico in Barcelona and you’ll see artistic inspiration runs deep. When there’s so much varying beauty and inspiration to mine from, you can understand why Luca Bacchetti the producer and DJ could never be defined or even confined to one thing. Or why Luca Bacchetti the label owner named his imprint ENDLESS, as a way of acknowledging the fact that you can never experience everything in life.

For this reason the Italian has remained a kind of square peg in a round hole for much of his career; constantly evolving his sound, confounding expectations and very frequently hopping onto the next sonic discovery.
It was in the mid-2000s that he begun a relationship with the iconic Italian brand Tenax, playing at the Florence-based institution and releasing a string of key releases on the imprint. It was his remix of Bini & Martini’s ‘Stop’ that signaled the Italian’s first major production landmark in 2006, the deftly crafted cut hitting no.1 on the Beatport Minimal charts commanding the attention of industry colleagues and dancefloor dwellers alike.

Produced while basing himself in the tranquil mountainous area of Tosco Emiliano Apennines in Italy, it represents a duality that is often present in his work; that of two worlds overlapping and the real and imagined intertwined. He explains: “When I’m in New York I think of these mountains and when I’m here I think of the bustle of life…but it’s up here I find the seed.” Further material on the label in 2014 comes in the form of a gorgeous EP from All Is Well, a new project from an experienced hand in the music industry preferring to remain anonymous with a back catalogue stretching back two decades, a new record from Cadenza-linked artist Eduardo De La Calle, while an ENDLESS remix series is also on the horizon.