Nu NRG — Freefall. How Giuseppe Ottaviani met trance music

Giuseppe Ottaviani: “I think I started with trance music around 1996—1997. I grew up listening to different kind of music. Classical music was my biggest influence during my early youth, as my parents used to play classical records every day. I have about nine years of classical piano education. I switched from classical music to pop music, to rock music and then eventually went into German techno music. Very minimal, dark and I used to love techno music. I still love it. But, back then I said, Ok, I love the beats, I love the energy but I am missing the melody from classical music. So, when Adagio for strings by William Orbit came out I said, Hold on. I like it. I really like this. Basically, the remix of Ferry Corsten for Adagio for strings brought me here. It was the perfect link between my techno sound and classical music. That was the day I met trance music.

Then I met new friends (Andrea and Giacomo) and we started to make music together. Andrea was already DJing in a proper club and I was just stepping into more progressive and trance music. He also had a very small studio and that was the first time I got to see a Nord Lead synthesizer and a Roland TR-909 drum machine. We became friends and together with Giacomo we decided to build a larger studio at Giacomo’s house.