Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto - VINYL LP

Lorenzo Senni was never a raver. Growing up in Rimini, the young artist was fascinated by dance culture as he witnessed close friends interact with a neon-hued chemical world that remained at odds with his own. He inhabited the local straight edge hardcore punk scene, a teenage drummer who absorbed the golden age of trance and gabber anecdotally. Senni was a rave voyeur, studying hedonism from a distance, fascinated by it's maximalist, expressive charm.When Senni released InchQuantum JellyInch in 2012, it marked the beginning of an ongoing challenge. Using the aesthetic language of dance music (most notably the InchSupersawInch preset on Roland's iconic JP-8000 synthesizer), he allowed his outsider's curiosity to inform experimentation he branded Inchpointillistic tranceInch. Senni's suite of contradictions only added to the puzzle a trained percussionist who completely avoided the use of drums, a sober listener reinterpreting the signals of music rooted in the drug experience. Each record since then has refined this initial idea; Senni has learned in public, sculpting his sound and unpacking his shifting relationship with dance music while attempting to marry it with the thematic immediacy of straight edge rock music.With InchScacco MattoInch, Senni wanted to see how far he could push these ideas. The title means Inchcheck mateInch in Italian, and references the constant chess game Senni plays with himself when writing music. InchThere is a move and a countermove,Inch he explains. InchI always need something that limits the emotional elements of my tracks. That often means just not having something that you usually expect.Inch And unexpected elements are littered throughout the album, from opening track 'Discipline of Enthusiasm' with it's dramatic orchestral elements that counter elastic rave bleeps, to the innocent organ intro on 'Wasting Time Writing Lorenzo Senn