Born and educated in Rome, the young Italian producer Luigi Tozzi was strongly influenced by the roman scene and its local artists, many of whom gave a crucial contribution to the birth and growth of the deep techno sound. Luigi’s music has so far been released on the established label Dynamic Reflection as well as setting a regular cooperation with the very promising and mysterious techno label Hypnus Records from Sweden, where he found a platform that inspired him to develop his style.

We sat down with Luigi ahead of his debut Australian tour to talk influences, creative processes, balancing touring with down time and much more.

How’ve you been Luigi? What have you been up to?

Hey! I’m good, writing from Tokyo. I had a break over the past three weeks and have started to work again on some material for a live set, so I’m very excited about it and I’m looking forward to continue and try to finalize it for the summer. Besides it’s been a very good year until now with some amazing new experiences.

You’re largely inspired from the local scene in Rome and Italy in general. How do you feel the music from the region reflects the social context? In what ways?

Well we have a crazy amount of great artists coming from Rome so there must be something for sure! Still, I don’t feel comfortable to speak about the scene as a whole because I am so young.

For what concerns my music, Rome is absolutely a great place for creating. It is very peaceful in some way and it also has a mediterranean conception of time, people are not always rushing or stressed like in the more northern cities. Another crucial thing is constantly being surrounded by art and beauty, the history of Rome is always there in every part of the city.

The titles of your tracks take on very natural or scientific names, such as Bioluminescence. How is this related to your tracks musically? Do you feel an innate and organic connection to techno?

Look, the matter of track titles is really getting funny nowadays so I am glad you ask about it. I like my music to be very evocative and to evoke some sort of visual impact, to bring the listener in a position where they can imagine the sounds to take place in a different universe. To do so I get inspired by the universes that has fascinated and inspired me since my youth, as I said before one of my main source of inspiration is the sea because I am very much into diving since I was a child.

So the Deep Blue albums come from this passion, and the constant mentions to mythology comes from other roots in my childhood and adolescence. I think that everyone should aim to express something personal with the music, and to choose titles in universes that are very linked to them, but it’s not always the case nowadays.