Conor McTernan hears how trance, that most maligned of dance music genres, is the creative fuel behind Warp Records’ latest signing, Lorenzo Senni.
“‘It’s a responsibility,’ says Lorenzo Senni. ‘I feel an excitement like being the first man on the moon.’ It’s a couple of weeks before the announcement of Persona, his debut EP for Warp Records, and we’re sitting in the bright bar space on the top floor of Tate Modern in London. Senni is describing how it feels to be the first Italian artist signed by one of electronic music’s most prestigious labels.
Senni has been cultivating a specific sound for almost a decade. His primary reference point has been late-’90s and early-’00s Euro trance, while navigating through a trance continuum of sorts. With 2012’s Quantum Jelly, released by Editions Mego, his outlandish take on the genre divided opinions. These ideas then evolved on 2014’s Superimpositions on Boomkat Editions. Persona, in turn, is another bold leap forwards. Senni’s sound palette is still rooted in turn-of-the-century trance euphoria, but here he paints in vivid day-glo colour like never before.”
Lorenzo Senni’s Warp Records debut,Persona, is out now. Listen to the full release withSpotify, and stream first single, “Win in the Flat World”, below.