MIAMI 2013
main man’s Ibiza residencies at Pacha, and more recently Ushuaia: the fi rst stop for the Ibiza season’s deeper Balearic classics.
Luciano may be pulling the party popper this year, but he is fully aware of the work he, his team and family have delivered to reach this benchmark. Ahead of a special 10-year celebration party at Miami’s Delano on Thursday 21st March as part of Miami Music Week, and a Cadenza yacht party and appearance at Ultra in the city too (on Friday 22nd March), we caught up with the techno enigma to fi nd out more...
Cadenza is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. How does it feel to reach this benchmark?
“It feels like time is fl ashing by. It’s been great, it’s been 10 long years of adventures. I have met a lot of people while evolving and changing a lot of things. I think it’s important to always try and evolve as much as we can in what we do. We have lived through things that have worked and things that we were not expecting. This is why we feel it was important to celebrate it.”
What have been your highlights of running Cadenza in these 10 years?
“I would say that every moment, even if it was bad or good, was something we have learned from and we always try to get better. The fi rst highlight I would say was when we got the feedback from the fi rst record that we did, we couldn’t believe it. Then of course the change of distribution and the change of the sleeves going from black and white to sleeves with colour, and to have such a great artist working on them. Meeting people through the music and going to Ibiza, the whole process was a highlight.”
What are your plans for the future of the label? Are you bringing any new artists through?
“The idea I have decided [upon] this year is that we would pull together. The approach for the 10th year that we wanted to take was to put more focus into the people that we have and our artists. We wanted to make an in-house party. To me it means I give the liberty to the artists that have been here for 10 years to do projects that they always wanted to do, to be free. It’s an outlet for us, its a party for us that we want to share with the people, so we need to also celebrate this in a way that we are happy about.”
Art and visuals have always been important to you. How do they refl ect your music?
“Everything that has been done has been designed by my sister. From day one she has been doing it, and we just understand each other. She feels the music and she produces it into something visual. We love to keep it this way because we all think it represents the music.”
So did you come from an arty family? “No not really, we come from a very normal,
humble family. My mother was a teacher. We never had art in our family, but we were always surrounded by new people. Growing up, I
remember my family used to fi x jukeboxes and I remember I used to play with the vinyl, but that’s it. My mother used to listen to music, we got into an arty side of our life when we moved to South America I would say.”
Your music is refl ective of your cultural backgrounds. What infl uences do you bring from your Swiss and Chilean heritage to shape your music? “I would say that with every different part of the world you have been, it implants an emotion inside of you. It will make something inside of you that will bring an emotion to your soul and to your body, and this is what you try to express through music.”
You are clearly devoted to the art of production and DJing. What are your thoughts when you hear stories of major DJs playing ready-made mixes when they perform to people? “This whole thing is very diffi cult. It is very easy to criticise who is doing what and whoever has got major. There is always an important thing that we can never forget, that it is music. Why does something exist? It’s music and music has to be respected. Of course, sometimes it is diffi cult to deliver something absolutely different every single night and be on the best performance of your life every night, it is impossible to do this. I think that’s why music is magic because nobody can own it, nobody can control it, it is something for you. When you do something like this and you prepare exactly what is going to happen from the fi rst second to the last second, it’s because you are trying to control it, and it’s because you are not trying to leave something open to interpretation. This is not the way music happens, I think music is magic and you let it go.”
Do you fi nd it offensive when people do that ? “No, I’m not here to judge or complain about anything. It’s just that when you have this freedom with music, the music does something to you that is magic. It is something that touches you and your emotions. I think it’s just a shame that you can’t take the risk to do something, to be touched by something like that and to understand what it is all about. Music is this feeling that you have inside. Sometimes, of course, when I see this, I feel that it’s not that it is good or bad, but that people need to understand that music is something that can completely bring you somewhere that you were not expecting, and that’s why I think I do it.”
You are holding a couple of parties during Miami Music Week this year. You’ve chosen Delano, and you are also holding a yacht party. How do these venues refl ect you and Cadenza? “I think what refl ects the label is the spirit and the vibe that we bring with the party. I think when you arrive at a place, you try to adapt to that place, try to get a feel for it and what you are able to do. I think when you arrive somewhere where there is no walls and you are close to the ocean, it inspires you to let the music go.”
What was the idea behind taking Cadenza out to sea? “For me, nature has a lot to do with the music I make and our sound. The peace available out at sea will make people behave differently to what they do in the club. They will have a different approach to the music and they will also receive the music differently. I still
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