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As a producer, DJ, label manager, music consultant, and avid record collector, he is actively involved in the music world with various projects. He is part of the roster of the Jazz:Re:Found festival and is a resident DJ at the "Boogie Nights" in Vercelli. He has released electronic music records on several labels, and his edits, aimed at DJs with a taste for a more 'black' sound, have been successfully published by Light Touches Records. Together with Marco Schiavone, he founded the record label Icon Of Desire, dedicated to the parallel between electronic music and space explorations. As a DJ, he traverses the universe of black music: American disco, Detroit techno, Chicago house, broken beat, and African polyrhythms, all approached with a curious and spontaneous style that leads him to share rare and unique records with the dancefloor.

Described by Fact! Magazine as the "favorite DJ of your favorite DJ," Lefto has proven himself to be one of the most important tastemakers in Europe. Constantly immersed in new music, he doesn’t just wait for the next thing; he seeks it out. It's no wonder that he's affiliated with international labels such as Brownswood Recordings, Serato, 101 Apparel, Boiler Room, BBE, Ninja Tune, R&S, Blue Note, Tru Thoughts, New Los Angeles, and K7 Records. After spending 20 years at Belgium's leading national FM radio station, Studio Brussel—where his show won first place as the best radio program four times at the Red Bull Elektropedia Awards and received critical acclaim from Rough Trade, Gilles Peterson, MTV, and many others—Lefto decided to leave the station to join the new and talked-about Kiosk Radio, located in the heart of Brussels. "Think outside the Kiosk" is the name of his new show, which is also broadcast on The Lot Radio in New York. In addition to his new venture with Kiosk Radio, he continues his collaboration with WorldwideFM on Saturday nights. Dedicated to the future of music yet mindful of its past, Lefto's background is firmly rooted in jazz, new beat, acid, house, and rap music. Famous for taking his audience on a journey from jazz to Ghetto Tech and for blessing sound systems worldwide with regular nights in Japan, South Korea, the USA, and Europe, he also curates his own nights in Belgium and serves as the artistic director of a stage at the Dour Festival.

Luca Trevisi (LTJ X-perience) has been a DJ and producer since the late 1980s. The Kinki Club in Bologna and Cap Creus in Imola were the first clubs to feature him as a resident DJ, and he is considered an Italian pioneer of the acid jazz and rare grooves genres. In the 1990s, he was busy as a producer with projects like "Bossa Nostra," which featured Vicki Anderson, the historic backing vocalist for James Brown. Simultaneously, he traveled the world as a DJ, performing at venues such as the Blue Note in London, Giant Steps in New York, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and other iconic locations. Since the late '90s, LTJ has been producing music and curating compilations for some of Europe's most important labels. Over the years, his DJ activities have been complemented by his role as a collector and reseller of rare records, which has enabled him to connect with DJs around the world and to rediscover forgotten gems from music's past. Today, he is rightfully considered the foremost representative of the 'disco-boogie' scene on a national level.

A cornerstone of the Ligurian underground music scene, he has long been a stalwart behind the decks. As a researcher, collector, and DJ, his approach to the mixer has always been eclectic and free from stylistic constraints. With black music at the core of his aesthetic, he is a spokesperson for modern, boundary-less DJing and has been a respected brand in the clubbing circuit of the Riviera for many years. Throughout his career, with his diverse artistic approaches, he has skillfully shared the DJ booth with true heavyweights of the scene: Dj Vadim, Mad Professor, Marcel Dettmann, Andy Smith, and many other pillars of international clubbing.

Raffaele Costantino is a DJ, producer, radio host, and music consultant who hosts "MusicalBox" on Rai Radio 2, now in its fourteenth season and considered a unique reference point in the national radio landscape. He also has his own space on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide FM web radio. In 2016, he released his first book, "Storia di una playlist, playlist di una storia" (Arcana Edizioni). He collaborates as a music consultant and artistic director with many clubs and festivals nationally and internationally. He was the artistic director of Meet In Town at the Auditorium in Rome for seven years and a music consultant for the Musica per Roma Foundation. He has been a music consultant for Rai Radio2 and Soundreef, for which he curated the "Soundreef Waves" podcast series. A member of the Lazio Creativo curators team for the Lazio Region as a music expert, he is A&R and co-founder of HyperJazz Records, a label that has quickly made its mark internationally. Under his DJ alias Khalab, he experiments with new fusions of electronic music, African tradition, and jazz, recording albums with prestigious international labels (Black Acre of Bristol, Wonderwheel of New York, On The Corner of London, and the legendary Real World Records by Peter Gabriel), taking his music across Europe. He won the "Track of the year 2016" at the prestigious Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards in London. His album "Black Noise 2084" was listed among the best albums of 2018 by many international media (The Wire, BBC6, MOJO, Bandcamp,) and supported by DJs like Gilles Peterson, Laurent Garnier, Trevor Jackson, Ben UFO, Matthew Dear, and many others. His latest full-length album, "M'berra" (Real World Records, 2021), has confirmed global critical acclaim. He has performed at some of the most prestigious European festivals, including the Worldwide Festival and Glastonbury.

Cristian is the youngest DJ in the Jazz:Re:Found lineup. Initially a regular attendee of the 'Boogie Nights' parties and the Jazz:Re:Found Festival, he naturally transitioned to the other side of the DJ booth, equipped with a rich repertoire of the best house, disco, funk, soul, and African music. His spontaneous nature, coupled with a healthy demand for musical quality, leads him to deliver straightforward, no-frills DJ sets made up of solid grooves that span 50 years of African American music.

As an incurable vinyl addict, he initially embraced post-punk as his adolescent soundtrack but soon shifted towards the black music universe, starting with 7" R&B, exotica, Latin, and progressing to funk, soul, afrobeat, and jazz in all its shades and incarnations. With the motto, "I tried with the straight beat, but just couldn't do it," he has over the years challenged dancefloors at clubs and festivals; for some seasons, he also lent his voice and records to radio. His love affair with music is further expressed through words: he has worked for over ten years as a journalist, social media manager, and communication strategist for festivals, events, and record labels.

Vittorio Barabino is a collector, selector, and DJ, a devotee of good music, exclusively on vinyl. He draws from his personal collections of library music, soundtracks, and jazz in all its forms, creating mixes that represent pieces of culture and lifestyle in our society. His music is unusual, peculiar, and so sought-after that it feels almost timeless. He specializes in very rare or hard-to-find records, sometimes impossible to even hear on the web, yet his approach to collecting is uplifting and creative.

Born in Vercelli in 1958, Luigi Ranghino is a composer and musician highly regarded both in Italy and internationally. He studied piano under the guidance of Maestri Pestalozza and Poli, and composition with Fellegra, Colla, Lorenzini, and Garuti. He also studied jazz with Maestro D'Andrea, a genre in which he would specialize throughout his career. In 1991, he formed a trio that participated in national and international festivals and events in places such as Turin, Munich, Zagreb, and Maribor. His notable collaborations have led him to perform with artists such as John Etheridge, Alan Skidmore, Wayne Darling, Jim Dvorak, Monty Waters, Giovanni Tommaso, Attilio Zanchi, Tino Tracanna, Walter Donatiello, Tiziano Tononi, Daniele Cavallanti, Michelangelo Flammia, Bireli Lagrene, Gianluca Petrella, Francesco Aroni Vigone, Samuel Rohrer, and Max Loderbauer. Not shying away from more experimental endeavors, he has also performed with the renowned DJ Ricardo Villalobos.

The genre is what we might call "Californian," a "psychedelic-futuristic" sound that, in the tracks laid down by Flying Lotus and Thundercat, has become one of the most interesting soundtracks of contemporary times. Fabio Visocchi and Luca Bologna are pioneers of the Milanese scene in terms of experiments of this type, both producers, one in love with the world of keys, the other immersed in the grooves of bass lines. They form an original and surprising duo, capable of marrying jazz and soul harmonies with future beats, creating a blend that, in their live performances, transports the audience for a moment to the suburbs of Los Angeles.