The sonic vision of Euro-Chilean Lucien Nicolet has been celebrated by techno fans for over ten years. A resident DJ of Circo Loco in Ibiza, and head honcho of Cadenza, Luciano makes genre-defying sets of hypnotic house, bumpy minimal and classic techno. His incredible mix for fabric, fabric 41, showcased minimal house and techno at its most compelling.
Like symbiosis, like the yin and yang, like your left and right hands, there is something both so free and passionate, yet also so technological, somewhat clinical, even precise and methodical about Luciano's music which onlookers always suggest is a reaction to him moving from Switzerland to Santiago, Chile when he was about 11 or 12. The suggestion that his music is directly correlated to those worlds colliding is not necessarily obtuse. Some parts minimal, deep techno and scientific electro, some parts southern rhythms and colourful melodies, making the identity of his music especially soulful as it seeps from a more alkaline space. While Luciano's collaborations with Ricardo Villalobos, Pier Bucci and Argenix Brito have possibly resulting in some of the techno's most cherished music and performances, his beginnings promoting Sense Club and Encuentros con la Technocultura in Santiago Chile amongst other local creative initiators like Senor Coconut aka Atom Heart, Washington Miranda, Microman, and more over Dandy Jack & brother Adrian Schopf, became the start of his career.