• Tony Lionni - RA Podcast 157 •

The prolific producer blurs the line between techno and house on this week's RA podcast.



Whether it's house or techno that floats your musical boat, the chances are that you'll have seen Tony Lionni's name cropping up on new release lists at an almost alarming frequency. Lionni has only been releasing music for just over a year now, but has already amassed quite a catalogue of releases on a series of well respected labels. Versatile, Aesthetic Audio, Wave, Mule, Figure and Ostgut Ton are just some of the imprints that have committed his house and techno fusion to wax, and there's very little sign of Lionni's frenetic work rate slowing up. Electronic music wasn't Lionni's first musical passion, however. As a B-boy with Manchester-based collective The Rebels In Effect, Lionni fully immersed himself into the fresh and exciting world of hip-hop, before proceeding to research and DJ a wide spectrum of black music.

Liverpool-born Lionni moved to the nearby musical melting pot of Manchester quite early in his life, and it was there that he cut his DJing teeth playing a mix of rare groove, funk and hip-hop. His thirst to continue to live in a city with a hotbed of electronic music took him to Madrid six years ago, and he's recently taken up home in Berlin to surround himself with a larger community of fellow producers. He'll be making a return to Spain in a couple of weeks time for our rooftop pool party in Barcelona during this year's Sonar festival, so we thought it'd be just the right time for Tony to showcase his sound on the RA podcast. We caught up with Tony to ask him about the mix, what he's got in store for our pool party in Barcelona and how his house music love affair first started.


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