303 Lovers Interview

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303 Lovers Interview

Italian label 303 Lovers is run by Manuele Meini (Aka Manuel De La

Mare/Sara Galli), Alessandro Bacci (Aka Alex Kenji) and Luigi

Emanuele Rocca (Marshall). Based In Tuscany, the label is quietly

going about becoming an established international tour de force in

light of support from, and collaboration with, key players in the

underground electronic movement. The label is regularly at the top of

the Beatport chart and its sound and style can range from techno,

tech house to electro, but always appeals to underground music

lovers in this time of genre crossover madness.

Overall the label has sold more than 200, 000 MP3s sold and have

hot upcoming releases from Umek, Wally Lopez, Paul Thomas and

Richard Dinsdale. Their radio show also goes from strength to

strength as it’s hosted on the main FM and net radios in the world:

m2o, 105.net, Proton Radio, Live FM, AT&T, IbizaGlobal Radio,

DanceParadise and more.

How did you guys come together?

AK Well, actually I know Manuel since 1995 cause I was a drummer

and he was a guitarist (weird guitarist ever btw) and we met because

a friend in common. Then on 2007 me and Manuel originally have

created 303Lovers/Hotfingers music labels. On 2008 Marshall was

added definitely aboard

LRM I had some releases as artist on 303Lovers, than I met Manuel

during a gig in a Tuscany Club, we had dinner than we played

together. Manuel was so impressed about my dj set and after few

days he proposed me to became part of 303Lovers and Hotfingers

music labels.

MDLM Yeah I’ve to say I was pretty lucky to meet him: Ale x always

complain about me cause I take decisions too quickly, but at least

about Luigi my first impression was good!

What inspired you to start the label?

LRM I think that nowadays having a own label is fundamental and

give you the possibility to express yourself at 100%

MDLM Well at the beginning we were inspired by minimal/techno,

mostly on the darkest and weirdest way (303Lovers) but also we

asked ourself why don’t start an house music based so we created

Hotfingers

What influence does the Italian scene have on you and on the label?

What do you make of the scene?

MDLM Electronique music scene in Italy is not influencing us, we are

not so much into it, maybe we are more influenced by other aspects

of italian life style and arts. If we live here is not exactly for the night

life.

AK There was a good italian house music scene until 2003: an

amazing scene here in Tuscany then all the thing turned out on

minimal and all the clubs disappeared

What sort of music do you aim to release? How must it make you feel

before it’s released?

AK Simply solid track, maybe nice melody on it and most important it

must be 100% groovy

LRM We are a very eclectic group, personally I can I can do techno

or tech house instead progressive house with my friend Libex, the

only thing I really must feel is the impact on the dancefloor!

You’ve had in excess of 100, 000 sales – how much work do you

guys put into getting your stuff out there or do you just let the music

do the talking?

AK I personally think that selection of the track is the most important

thing and we think that if you don’t have any bomb track from artist

are releasing in your label you simply have to create yourself!

MDLM We put a lot of work on music itself, we all spend all the time in

the studio when we are not travelling for gigs.

What are the difficulties you face running the label? What are the

main challenges?

LRM Off course the main challenge is to grow up the labels , up and

up again

AK Then running a label itself is not so difficoult the real problem is :

running labels, foreign djing, producing, remixing and doing dog

sitter at the same time !!

MDLM Maybe the problem is that we are simply musicians, sometimes

we have to make things a little bit boring like being business men,

there are not exactly difficulties, just few boring part of the job.

How much say do you have in a record before it’s released on your

label or do you leave it up to the individual producers and let them

do as they see fit?

LRM We don’t use to say too much about a record, if it fits is ok, if

not, will be for the next!

Ever think you’ll do label parties as a collective of 303 artists?

AK Actually we already did first official party at Universo Paralello NY

eve in Bahia, Brazil and it was a very good night . We are going to

make more 303lovers parties this summer in Ibiza (a collaboration

with Fabrik Madrid In Session), in Italy and some plans for autumn in

Vancouver Canada.

How do you keep the 3030 sound but make sure you don’t get left

behind/become stale? How do you keep moving forward?

MDLM From my point of view we’ve the opposite problem! We change

very quickly, is the only way we do not get bored!

What’s your proudest release so far?

LRM So many… We have many hits and everything with a different

sound,

What else is in store for 2010?

AK We are full of good stuff, among the others a track form Umek,

one from Wally Lopez, then one from Paul Thomas Sonny Wharton

and Ant Brooks, and a big album form Hauswerks. We have a couple

of remix coming from Spartaque, a great ukranian producer, one of

my favourite at this moment.

Website: http://www.303lovers.com/ 


Email : booking@303Lovers.com 


Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/303lovers 


Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35202454499 


Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/303lovers 


Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/303lovers

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