Top track: Daniele Papini ‘Church of Nonsense’

Top track: Daniele Papini ‘Church of Nonsense’

8 July, 2008 | 1.52PM

• Section: Music News Topics: Berlin, DJ Gossip
• Written by: Ben Raven

Italy unleashes another monster onto the dancefloor.

Every great DJ set should have one perfect moment of bassline filth.

‘Church of Nonsense’ was made for times like these.

Built around a filtering bassline that unfolds throughout its duration, the track is proving to be one of minimal techno’s biggest current floor whallopers.

Born in Florence but currently resident of Berlin, Daniele Papini has made quite an entrance with this all-consuming piece of techno weaponry.

Imagine unleashing a rhinoceros onto the dancefloor when you’re only halfway to gauging the destruction it’s capable of causing.

When heard in a club on a big sound system the effect is devastating.

As the bass filters up and up, twisting the intensity as tight as it will go, the crowds go spastic every time.

It’s minimal techno, 2008 style—electronic stripped down, created with a punk rock aesthetic.

Simple riffs maximised to their best create adrenaline-fuelled havoc on the dancefloor.

It’s no wonder its creator is Italian. Labels like Minus say most of the best music they get sent from new producers is 75% Italian, such is the appetite for minimal techno there.

Each month a raft of new names are coming through with tracks like these.

Sure, there’s often more quantity than quality, a criticism commonly made of minimal techno in 2008, but amongst the crowds of new faces people like Daniele Papini are quickly standing out as the next wave of techno artists that matter most.

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