Remo Giugni – The Journey from Vinyl to Vision on the Virtual Sessions presented by The DJ Sessions 12/2/25

From Florence, Italy, veteran DJ and producer Remo Giugni joins to reflect on nearly three decades of dedication to music and performance. His story begins in the 1980s when, at age 13, he stumbled upon a DJ setup at a friend’s birthday party and instantly became fascinated by the lights, vinyl, and energy of the experience. That moment ignited a lifelong passion that would lead him from bedroom setups to the international stage.

Starting his career in Tuscany’s club circuit, Remo evolved through every major shift in the music industry, from vinyl to digital to AI-enhanced production. He emphasizes that adaptation is essential for survival, drawing parallels between his early record-spinning days and today’s streaming-driven environment. For Remo, success comes not from chasing trends but from blending authenticity with innovation, adapting to change while preserving emotional connection with the audience.

He speaks passionately about the balance between technology and artistry, cautioning that while AI and new devices can expand creativity, they must never replace the human feeling behind the decks. His philosophy centers on the DJ as a storyteller, comparing a proper set to a gourmet dinner—crafted course by course for the listener’s experience. Remo insists that audiences should trust the DJ’s journey rather than control it, advocating for education and respect within club culture.

Remo also highlights the importance of working with Origami Management, crediting Leandro Da Silva and Alessandro Molinari for helping him reach new professional heights. For him, fame and fortune are secondary to freedom—the freedom to perform authentically, refuse bad gigs, and continue living a life fully immersed in music.

Topics

0:10 – Discovering DJ culture at a childhood birthday party in Florence
5:50 – Early family life and discovering his musical path
7:36 – Transitioning from local residencies to touring internationally
11:19 – Technology’s evolution from vinyl to streaming and AI
17:12 – The future of underground culture and selective audiences
20:12 – The balance between fan interaction and live experience
23:03 – Describing his music as deep, surprising, and dynamic
25:10 – Creating meaningful tracks inspired by film and life
28:16 – Advice for producers on balancing emotion and success
31:31 – Living as a full-time DJ and rejecting shortcuts in artistry

Connect with Remo Giugni

Instagram: @remogiugnidj

SoundCloud: Remo Giugni 

Spotify: Remo Giugni

[Darran]
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the DJ Sessions Presents the Virtual Sessions. I’m your host Darran and right now I’m sitting in the virtual studios in Seattle, Washington and coming in all the way from Florence, Italy we have none other than Remo Giugni. I hope I said that right.

Did I get it right Remo? That was perfect. How are you doing?

[Remo Giugni]
Awesome.

[Darran]
Well thank you so much for being here today. I got a little bit of trouble going on with my blue screen. I had to do something about that but don’t worry about it.

We’re here to have some fun. Accidents happen and we’re live on the DJ Sessions. So you know getting right into things, you’re with Origami Management and you have an extensive career.

I mean 29 years in the game. What got you started into this whole DJ music creation awesomeness stuff?

[Remo Giugni]
Oh that’s a good question and very particular answer I will give you. You know I’m an old dinosaur as a DJ. I’m 43 years old and it’s 29 years that I’m playing.

So mainly I was I think 12-13 years old and I was used to go to birthday party of schoolmates. So every time that we had a birthday party of some schoolmates we were going to these houses, villas in Florence, Italy and there was magician, clowns. We were playing table games.

We were you know doing the normal entertainment for kids right. But suddenly at one birthday of a friend of mine we arrived in his garden, his villa and we went in a canteen that everything was set up like a club, a disco. But I didn’t know.

Now I know that that was the first time I was seeing something like that. And there was I think it was 1986-87. There was a guy with a lot of equipment, electronic equipment, a lot of lights, these round black things that now I know they are called records that they were spinning right.

And we were hearing music and I said wow wow I was thrown literally in a new world. That was the first first time I was in front of a DJ. And that was a birthday party of a friend of mine that maybe we were 12.

And he gave me the biggest gift because look where I’m now. And I was fascinated by the music, by the lights, by all these long equipment that he had in front of him with a lot of buttons and lights. And I said wow what is that?

And imagine what was the first thing I did. Of course I went in front of him. I stare at all the equipment.

I stare at him for minutes. And then my hands by themselves, I wasn’t controlling them. My hands went on the and I did this.

I want to know how much he hated me for that. And you know I stopped the music. I made you know the worst thing of ever.

But then I said oh wow I want this. I don’t know what is this but I want it. And after I think two three months was my birthday of 13-14 years.

It was my birthday. So I stalked my parents every single day. And I said please I don’t know what is it but buy me that.

Buy me that please. I need that. So I began to take information and remember that 1987 it wasn’t 2025.

There was no internet and nothing. So to discover what was a turnable, what was a record, what was a mixer, what was Technics 1200 SL. You know you need to walk with your legs.

Go and ask people. Go in stores. Finally I discovered the biggest DJ store in Florence.

And I said okay please to my mother and my father buy me this. And you know I don’t tell you how difficult it was because at that time when you wanted something you need to sweat for it. So but my parents were or so much exhausted by my request or so much kind.

I think both of that. And at my birthday they bought me two turnables. And I had my first record.

And I had a mixer. I had speakers. I took days to understand how to plug everything can make it work.

And finally me I was in front of a vinyl, a record. And I played it. And I didn’t know that the job of the DJ was to make two songs go at the same speed.

The BPM. It was mixing. I only knew that I had the record.

I had music and I was doing this. Kind of a scratch. So from that moment this is my life.

It’s not a job. It’s a life. I was fascinated.

[Darran]
No I’m sorry I didn’t mean to cut you off.

[Remo Giugni]
With music and records. So that was the first step.

[Darran]
And I take it. Did you come from a musical family or was there music in the home or anything so they had no understanding of oh what’s he gonna do? He’s not a musician.

He’s gonna play records for a living.

[Remo Giugni]
That would have been a big help. No no no I’m kidding. My father and my mother always supported me.

But my father he was a businessman that was working in the textile industry. And my mother always worked. And then when I was born she was a whole school housewife.

So she had the biggest and heaviest job of her life. Grow me. And I wouldn’t give that job to anybody.

You know it’s very hard.

[Darran]
And you started out after growing up as becoming a resident DJ in Tuscany for the local clubs. How did you experience the transition over time of going from being kind of a local resident DJ to now. I mean you just told me you got back from Paris yesterday.

Yeah we were talking pre-show that you’ll be in Ibiza for IMS. And it’s like okay cool. So going from local to touring. Now take it that granted the United States is far.

And if you took a local DJ from Seattle and they started playing in New York or Chicago or Miami or LA. Okay that’s about maybe the same distance as going around Europe. But the European culture to me has so much more concentrated electronic dance music.

You know that the states it’s all spread out. You only get it in the main areas. The main top 10.

I mean it’s in every state. Every area. But I mean in Europe it’s very concentrated.

To build yourself up though to get the play at all these high level places. What’s that like? What’s that been like starting from small to growing to be a bigger.

Some of the accolades and people you’ve played with as well.

[Remo Giugni]
I think that was the only way to be where I am. And it’s the only solid way. Because there is really so much to speak about that.

Because I began in the end of 90s with records. And now I’m playing with digital USBs and I’m traveling not as much as I would like. Because for me it’s only the beginning.

But you know I’m traveling around the world and I see different realities. Different moods. Different crowds.

Different type of music. The thing is this. The passage is a slow path that you have to live it step by step.

100%. And by the way I’m telling you I’m 43. So I made so many different generation dance.

And so many different kind of music. So many different styles. So many different mindset about clubs and about partying.

Because everything changed. We are living in a era that in the last 50 years we passed by the first cell phone. Internet.

Now EA. You know we are the only generation that we had so many changes in the history so far. And music is the same.

So when I began before the DJ and music was in the center of the scene. And the viral. The trend was made by the DJ and the radio.

So all the old generation of teenagers or even grown people to know what was the music style or the main songs that was cool or they like. They had to go out. Go in a club.

Listen. And you know I’m so pretty. This interview will be so bad because I’m so pretty.

No I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I will be politically correct.

I will try. But before people were listening music and say OK I want this song. What is it?

I will speak to the DJ. He will give me the name. The title.

Where can I find it? Then we passed by a new generation. A new world where technology created streaming Spotify online shops of music.

And now there is still a good crowd of customers of followers of music that they are interested in music. But now everything gets easier. So happened many many times that the DJ have to follow the trend.

It’s not the DJ that is doing the trend. So about your question. How I live this transition and how I feel about it.

Easy. I adapted myself. Because music is music and is the engine of what we do.

DJs and producers. So we have to adapt but never give up. This is kind of a rap song.

But you know we need to find a compromise in the middle between the fans the customers people that go in clubs and what is real music. Because before we were doing the trend and people were following the trend of DJs about their selection. Now is maybe Spotify or radio shows that they make the taste of music of the people.

And we have a little bit to follow them. But we can follow them and then take them in another path that it’s our path. That makes every DJ is different from the others.

[Darran]
You know I recently saw about a month or two ago an interview with Paul Oakenfold. And he was talking about you know almost the exact same thing. And he said you know the thing is yes technology is going to change.

And it fits right into my next question. I love it when I talk with a guest and they don’t know my questions. But going following back going back to the Paul Oakenfold interview.

He said he said look here’s the thing. You can’t complain about the technology moving. It’s gonna move.

And if you don’t move with it you’re going to get stuck. That goes back to that old vinyl versus CDJ. CDJ versus you know flash drive or computer.

Or now look at what AI is going to do to game. I mean the predictability of I can look at the future. I’ve been doing the show and been in the nightlife scene since I was 15 years old and I just turned 51 last year.

So yeah I mean I’ve been watching this whole everything you’re describing. Yeah I remember the nightclubs. You’re right.

The DJ created the trend. Hang on two seconds. Yeah take your time.

I realized I left I realized I left the kettle on and we got to talking. I forgot to turn it off the stove and all the water went out of it. I’m like I’m gonna burn my house down during this interview.

Anything goes during the DJ’s shows. So but no I mean that’s the thing is watching the DJ who was the center of the stage or it wasn’t even the center of the stage move from the booth up here and you just danced in the club and there were no cell phones to then the DJ becoming center stage and then the lights and the boom boom boom and now you know I saw an interview it was uh was it Armand Van Buren somebody just recently came out and said it’s changed so much that even the song that you had a six minutes you had a six minute song back then there you got three minute songs and they want the drop the drop the drop the drop the lights the explosion so I get it I totally understand that and you know technology moves fast and I’m I’m not even a DJ I’m in film and television production internet distribution land and gosh what we used to have to do to get a show on broadcast television and then YouTube comes out and everyone’s like I got a television show now and it’s like no you have a digital distribution I mean we are on the same page yeah so I know what you mean but uh you know we could go on and on and on about that but you know speaking about technology and it moving fast and in DJ producer land and even in video production land if you could think of something that’s not on the market today but in your vision would be really really awesome to have what would that be uh I don’t I don’t know

[Remo Giugni]
if it’s not on the market but you know this changing and this change of mainly attention about the customers the fans I don’t know it makes that music before was for everybody and it was a trend to be involved in social life and to have emotions in music and know what was cool nowadays with Spotify in a very little part everybody can be a DJ you can be your own DJ you make your own playlist and you listen what you want but we are going to be more selective and this is I can say bad but cool in the same time because you know music have to be for everybody but if the most part want mainstream and decide their own music they don’t need to go to a DJ set they don’t need to go to a club that’s very bad to say but this is why it is so I think it will have more value the underground scene that a little part of people will know what they want and will appreciate and will give importance to experimenting I make you an example I’m Italian whenever I travel I don’t go to Italian restaurant I have them in my country I can cook my own pasta wherever I go I want to experiment and I’m open-minded to listen value and take myself be full of the experience of something different so the little part of customers that want to experience a real DJ set and music that’s different from what they want and what they expect they will be the crowd that DJ did deserve and it will make the DJ set the club the dancing floor everything an experience that it’s not for everybody but I mean not for everybody it doesn’t mean to exclude people everybody’s welcome it’s only about the mindset when people want to live an experience they are welcome when people want to do their own experience deciding everything they will do by themselves with Spotify so that’s why I think IEI Spotify and everything the DJ will never die has a job as a artist expression because no machine no computer no software we will ever change the feeling that the dance floor and the DJ exchange to each other and make it unique

[Darran]
so it’s not for everybody I’m gonna pause you right there I gotta go take care of that teapot once more please go back well that’s the first to happen on the show but no you’re absolutely correct on that is that you know I’m getting ready to launch what would be called an underground night here in the Seattle area very intimate vibe I’m doing some new things that I am not seeing or haven’t been done or it has been done it’s being done at a very micro level but you know if anyone came to me and said oh Darran is the DJ sessions is doing a night in Seattle or doing he’s getting into that business and being a promoter what are the three things that Darran’s probably going to do you can go to our website and say well it’s probably going to incorporate this it’s probably going to incorporate this and it’s probably going to incorporate this okay and if anyone can pull it off it probably I’m not trying to toot a horn it’s probably me because I’m the one that kind of you go he’s going to be able to put all these components together and make something happen and make something new and different and bring back I’m not trying to be nostalgic and say let’s get back to the dance when like it was when I was a kid going out but there’s a very easy way to do that I see that like a evolution not to go back

[Remo Giugni]
by an evolution and many parts of this evolution are old ones yeah and one of the things I mean

[Darran]
one of the biggest things that I’ve seen this crop up a lot uh with the bigger bigger night clubs I see announcements after announcements coming out saying no cell phones on the dance

[Remo Giugni]
floor or no cell phones in the club I understand the first one that was Bob Sinclair I I comment I made a reel about that because I think he was the most famous one that maybe for first said that

[Darran]
has lane eight also has I believe uh no cell phone policy when they when they do shows but I think that’s going to become more accustomed I was just on the phone with a dj uh they did a huge dj producer uh event coordinator last night and and one of the things they said is you know we do big events we want the cell phones at the events because that’s free media free publicity it kind of almost takes away from my job of being a press person getting press passes anymore that everyone has a cell phone and shares it on social media but are they really getting good coverage you’re getting somebody like this but that’s not a behind the scenes interview and sitting down with somebody barbara walter style and say who are you what are you with there’s still that pr component it’s always going to take place except now that you have you’ve seen the new iphone 7 i got mine coming tomorrow this new iphone 17 except when you’re filming like this you can also see yourself on the other side now oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it’s like i can’t wait to try out that feature i know i’m totally anti cell phone on the dance floor

[Remo Giugni]
but i’m going to be at concerts be like yeah yeah i have samsung there is this option so you can see both screen in the same way yeah you know about that uh it’s one of the biggest subject in the last uh years i i have to say something as you said there is a lot of change between the past and now and i don’t want to be nostalgic but as always music is life so like in normal life daily life uh i think um balanced choice is the best you know no extreme decision no extreme uh situation but a balance me i’m a dj but if i go to apply i buy a ticket to see fisher david geta or james hype 100 i would like to make some videos and remember that moment but wait some videos i do three videos and then i want to listen i want to live the experience so as everything it’s about um balancing your behave having a a good behavior you know what i mean everything that is too much is not good i think it’s my personal opinion so i don’t deny that fans supporters of a big dj they want to have a memory of that a picture a video but then what is that it’s cool to say that you went to listen james hype or you really want to listen james hype that’s the question yeah so i think everybody should behave as they feel but you know if there is a universal judgment who makes some videos and then feel the experience they are real supporters of james hype who makes only video they maybe don’t even care about the music they don’t even like him they like the idea to say to the others i was there and honestly i’m not a psychologist but this is a sad life yeah we can have a conversation about we

[Darran]
could have a whole different a whole another show just about that alone which i know i’m going to have you on the show in the future because we’re going to talk more about that but let’s get back to talking about ramo ramo and your music and what you do you know if you could describe your music in three words how would you describe it um deep surprising and crazy and what genre would do you identify with the most like okay

[Remo Giugni]
it is music it’s dynamic this is another topic that i’m very sensitive to because you know to be visible visible in the main market you know with the most famous one we should produce and have a very unique sound that people can recognize but i think this is um contradiction in terms because music is dynamic i identify and answer your question in tech house music 100 and by the way house music because you know the line between deep house the cows um electronic house music main stage it’s very little but but i say tech house but music it’s dynamic it’s dynamic for the experience that people have when they want to dance so they have different mood is the same for djs i reveal something sometimes i want to produce deep house music because i want to play a very elegant and deep soundtrack for a very fancy cool cocktail party when i’m in in the main stage of a big festival with 10 000 people i want to produce edm or techno because i need a very strong drop and i want to give big emotion to so many people and i want them to jump so tech house but we should think that one dj should produce more kind of music depending of his feelings depending of the purpose of his track and depending for who is made this track which kind of environment which kind of event which kind of crowd

[Darran]
yeah and do you when you go to produce a track do you go with the intention of making it a popular track or do you go in just to make it solely satisfy yourself and the success is kind of a

[Remo Giugni]
side effect no yeah of course honestly i i want to satisfy the public because of course it’s communication it’s pointless that i shout in my room and i only hear that sound you know i want to communicate and very strongly and loud to the world but i will never take compromises about what so for example i’m from 1982 for me the 80s were the biggest era for everything movies music so i always take inspiration from that for example one song that is called jumanji like the movie i was at the cinema with my lovely wife natalia and you know in the cinema with the around when the movie begin and there is the drums of the game you know jumanji i had goosebumps and i said okay wait let’s do a track for that this sound it’s amazing bro i took inspiration from the movie and i made the track jumanji with my best friend my um he’s a dj from sweden dj altego philippine and now i say hello to him he was my best man to my wedding and we released that track together i called him i said what do you think about jumanji he said bro he’s epic so let’s make a epic song in getting inspiration from that movie for example or another track i made is called dolce vita i’m italian we are living the dolce vita we like to hang out with friends we are passionate about love we like to have an aperitivo we like to drink wine with the family and making new friends so why not making another track that’s called dolce vita so these are little examples about what i do i take my own taste but i try to make it sound in a way that the most kind of people can understand it so the idea it’s my own and i really follow my taste but the kind of sound of course i follow the trend i want to know what people like every month every year and the sound the the rhythm change and i honestly i want to follow it because music is not something individual music it’s share so it will be pointless if i do music with a groove that it’s only in my mind only for my personal taste i want to share with everybody and the most most amount of people you know it’s funny because you just almost led

[Darran]
right into the next question i was going to ask you i’m reading your mind i know i love it when a guest does that it happens all the time and when it happens i’m like this is awesome because i was going to ask you if you could give one production tip or insight to new producers out there what would that be and you almost just answered that question would that be one of your number one

[Remo Giugni]
tips is produce yeah but i kind of have i i kind of had something because of course uh my dream it would be to be really famous all worldwide like the main five ten digits in the world so i don’t want to be hypocrite is it english you got it right okay yeah i don’t know my english so so i don’t want to be hypocrite but if somebody have the receipt to make a hit to be viral i’m honestly i would put one second my uh communication to the public aside one second because after when you are famous everything gets easier and then you can go back to your origins but from the other side my suggestion is that every song it’s not just dancing it’s not just three minutes of viral words viral sound but you have to communicate something because we are on a stage and this is a privilege it doesn’t matter if you are famous or not or you have 300 people in front of you or 30 000 but we have the privilege to communicate and have a special moment that we can be ourselves communicate with people and exchange opinions and exchange feelings so don’t waste it just to make something viral but make songs with feelings with a story

[Darran]
your story absolutely you know and that that that has to be i think one of the things i’ve heard over the over the years when asking people questions like this is that you know don’t follow the trends because the time by the time you want to go i like that and i want to make that by the time you even get up there it’s gone the trend’s gone and now you’re chasing the trends rather than just producing what you want to produce what makes you feel good find your niche find your lane and and go with that and network and that and and as you as usual i will

[Remo Giugni]
say a good compromise would be great and it’s funny that i speak about compromises because i have the biggest polarized personality i i’m so but tempered i mean in a good way you know i will always say my opinion i don’t i don’t care about be liked by other people but you know when you are an artist you have a responsibility so don’t look only yourself but look who you have in front so i i can say even me that’s funny but compromission a balance is a good way

[Darran]
yeah and you know um sometimes i ask people how do you again how did you just read my mind because you’re gonna when i ask you when i ask you the next question i ask you the next question

[Remo Giugni]
let’s say you’re gonna say what the heck is happening the next question speak about the question before let’s yeah no no we didn’t you do not know what i’m gonna ask you i swear to my

[Darran]
mother life the next question i’m gonna ask you is how do you balance your dj career with other

[Remo Giugni]
obligations in your life okay i you know nowadays to say that i’m a dj and producer full time it’s something uncommon because i this is another difference between the past and now new djs it’s kind of a hobby they think they they pretend it’s um it’s a job it’s a hobby they have other life other jobs they earn money from other stuff i i was born i am i will die as a dj i never i never had another job i eat food with dj since i was born okay wait can we put that on a t-shirt for you i eat food with dj it’s a lie i drink wine with djing

[Darran]
it’s more realistic no no like that already i drink i drink wine with dj and i eat with dj we

[Remo Giugni]
need to make a whole product line i buy my own wine with dj the thing is this so many professionals and they are even amazing but they have a second job and i don’t know which is the first or second job i i decided to be a dj and i feel really lucky i swear i feel really lucky that is all my life i’m a dj and a producer with all the uh sufferings all the bad aspects all the um sadness and satisfaction you know it’s a roller coaster the uh the life and the career of an artist actors singers djs we are always judged by other people and this is what we want but this doesn’t mean that we were born to receive that so it’s really hard but i won’t change that for no other job in my life so what i will suggest to new djs or new aspirant djs is that choose your path it won’t be easy and when it’s easy you should ask yourself some questions because now it’s a time that there are so many shortcuts but you know whatever we speak about we can speak about relationship life love job everything nothing that it’s easy will last i don’t want to speak like buddha i don’t have the i don’t have the skills or the knowledge but trust me so um make all the effort that is necessary to learn take knowledge study sweat suffer but build a solid career all the salt all the shortcuts i think they won’t last

[Darran]
and if they will last happy for you guys no they won’t because i mean i’ve had to adapt to so many technologies going back from vhs to high eight to mini dv to digital to you know even going from television from public access to television to youtube to podcast to live stream to even now i’m looking in i mean a lot of things i do i look at 10 years ahead when i get into something i’m doing it there’s not a lot of the people do i was doing live streaming dj 10 years before people thought about doing celebrity djs you know and and you have to keep learning as it draws back to that earlier conversation of that interview i saw of oakenfold saying you have to keep adapting to new technologies otherwise you’ll get static i had a friend of mine who’s an attorney just the

[Remo Giugni]
other day i was talking about he studied international law okay so he was always a dj

[Darran]
um i i have i’ve been using a lot of ai on a certain project that i have and without it i’d be out tens of thousands fifteen thousand probably dollars maybe even twenty thousand dollars by now but by using ai i’ve been able to do everything myself be right there professional and i’m not using like create music or create art or anything i’m using as a tool that i believe

[Remo Giugni]
it’s always the way the way that we use technology it’s not the technology the monster yeah exactly that we use it and the knowledge that we have the consciousness and i was trying

[Darran]
to tell him i’m saying look you got to understand the use of ai he said i tried doing it but it didn’t work for what i wanted to do i said but were you using it the right way there are you have to prompt it the right way you have to tell it the right way it isn’t just like going to google and saying where’s the best donut shop it’s it’s you don’t if you’re using it i even saw an article that says if you’re using ai like you use google you’re using it the wrong way no of course and by the way you use the one percent of the potentiality yes exactly i mean if i’m gonna i i can’t talk about why i’m using it right now for my main project that i got i call it a project but if not somebody will steal it yeah it’s no it’s not even a trademark thing it has to kind of has to do with law i’ll just leave it there but i was trying to tell them the new kids though that are coming out they’re using this in college the new people in business that are using this if they’ve been using it for the last two years or they just jumped on board now and started using it they’re gonna be so much further ahead than those that say i don’t like ai i think it’s that i think it’s terminator i think it’s skynet i think it’s going to destroy the world those are probably people that aren’t aren’t we are we are destroying the world human

[Remo Giugni]
is the main enemies of themselves so i won’t be afraid of another enemy we are the biggest one

[Darran]
yeah of ourselves so yeah you know um but i just it’s you just got to keep adapting to technology in the sense of things um to make it keep going and going and going and there is only one thing

[Remo Giugni]
very easy if me or you or some others doesn’t adapt if you don’t like technology do you think you will stop it no no we will be only behind we have to be realistic yeah technology you know again i say that is a monster if it’s used in the wrong way for example this is very italian i’m sorry for that but you know i like to make love with my wife right if ie or technology will make it for me it’s the wrong way to use it i’m a stupid right yeah you know i mean like i was

[Darran]
saying you have to look you have to look at what’s advanced and sometimes you might go down a pathway though and that might fizzle out and it’s not the right way to go you never know but you’ve got to take that chance to move it’s just like we have a virtual reality nightclub i was doing that three years ago i’m still into vr but i’m looking into what the ar technology is going to bring so when you come to a show like the glasses you’re wearing and you’re at a show you may be seeing the lights the stage i mean but you put on a nice pair i’m not knocking any of the pairs of glasses that are out now i don’t understand i don’t want to lose any sponsorships or get blacklisted you’re going to put on a pair of glasses very easy or even just contact lenses yeah and be able to see a completely virtual experience right in front of you to get interact with and move and do stuff with that is going to change the playing field of how we see events and how we see the world um you know it reminds me of the movie um it was a minority report when he was walking around yeah they were scanning his eyes and then we would play specific commercials that you would only hear to you but if you if you didn’t have the eyeballs you wouldn’t see anything you know i mean it went off your eyeballs but not i think you get the point i’m really excited for that kind of technology and developing that to see an event space you might just walk in and it’s four walls or it’s outdoor area and you’re like there’s nothing going on here and all of a sudden you put on a pair of headsets you tap in and you put your sunglasses or contact lenses in you’re like oh my god and then you can see other avatars and people running around like fortnight i think uh the daft punk one the daft punk virtual reality i think they had like 12 million visitors 12 million people in there at one time i had best fortnight and i looked i haven’t even gone in there yet and looked at it but it looked like knowing daft punk and the experience that they would bring to a table in a virtual environment imagine if you saw that in an augmented reality environment yeah you know like whoa you know um but anyways you got on that all day long so i i’m

[Remo Giugni]
happy that again it’s coming out that the key of everything is the knowledge you can experience different things amazing bad or different but you need to know what are you experiencing and know to know what is reality yeah my worried is the new generation and now we go yeah criticizing the new generation no this is objectively that we are i think the last generation of people that we live without a cell phone without internet without social networks and so if we use them and when we use them we know what are we using because we know the difference between reality and social right the new generation not all not everybody but even if it’s a small part i’m worried about that not having a different comparison not knowing how to skateboard in the play soccer in a square they make confusion about what it’s real life so the key is knowledge you can use everything about technology but you need to know the difference and using the best way

[Darran]
yeah absolutely and and you know that’s just uh you know it’s it’s it’s it’s like you said using it in the best way um of course i was i was having somebody the show is an open format so i’ll tell you a story i was talking with somebody the other day about you know when the first when the first camera was made somebody said we’re gonna take pictures and we’re gonna go here’s a beautiful flower and here’s a beautiful mountain range and here’s a beautiful something and then somebody said here’s a beautiful girl snap snap snap and then you know and then all of a sudden we got into film production and they said here’s a beautiful movie and here’s a beautiful movie and somebody said here’s a beautiful sex scene you know i think you see where i’m getting that no no yeah of course the porn technology is like right here with the new mediums like that’s new let’s go let’s go let’s go you know they’re usually on top of me for anyone else i don’t want to try to advocate the porn industry in a sense but you know not that i’m against the porn industry in any way shape or form nobody even who say that nobody is yeah nobody is but i mean the thing is you got to look at is you look at what porn is adapting to it’s like kind of going to set a trend if they’re if they’re into live streaming everyone else is going to get like they’re in the

[Remo Giugni]
online it’s like it’s like analyzing a social experiment you know he give us information he give clues he give us the trend of what society is doing and where it’s going and you know music

[Darran]
is part of it yeah i mean i remember when i was working for apple and i i remember that uh i was in i was in this back it was a worldwide developer conference meeting i believe or it was an internal meeting app only apple employees could see it or something like that which wouldn’t be worldwide developer long story short steve jobs was talking about the moving from ibm chips to intel chips and what happened there is he said on stage and this is where my mind blew and i know r&d research and development goes very far out for everything but he said for all of you on campus he pointed to this map and he goes this little area right here that you thought was secret super that everyone’s talking rumors of what’s going on here this is what we’ve been developing this intel chip here for the last five years so when everyone everyone was pushing out this these chip sets and this is just a small i’m a big steve jobs fan working for the company i used to work for the company and all that fun stuff but you know you got to look at it and go what are these companies doing that we’re not seeing that they’re making for the market what you see today on the market this phone probably seven or eight years ago yeah yeah exactly then it hits the market as the iphone 15 the iphone 17 probably seven or eight years they know where their scalability of where they’re going with 100 i understand so i understand even companies like pioneer i didn’t get a chance to i didn’t get a chance to look into it too much i know there was the big hoopla of the software or the device that lets you now play it on any device um it was announced at ade it was something really a big development i saw a kit popping up everyone’s talking about it um auto

[Remo Giugni]
oh gosh i wish i remember the name well you know i don’t i don’t i always use when i use them i see what they do before uh i don’t take information about all the devices all the type of console yeah the only thing this is another topic but you know the only change the big big change but in worst my personal opinion you know the opus quad of pioneer is the only one is connected on wi-fi so for this i take away my glasses we we did not yet we djs already are used to people that ask you songs oh yes pioneer do you really want to connect the console and the digit to wi-fi why you i never thought about it like that why you did it you want you know that means that when somebody is so sorry this is not politically correct but when people are rude because this is not respectful for a dj but they come and say okay play this because you know people that come and say sorry your music it’s amazing but can you please play that the manners change everything yeah the way you you uh introduce yourself to somebody change everything but when people say oh play this it’s already a mess with usb records because people are a bit wild and they pretend that you play what they want but seriously pioneer and alpha theta did you really want alpha that’s an alpha that’s the one wi-fi yeah you are killing us don’t do that

[Darran]
yeah no i never thought about it and even looking at it from the standpoint of a dj that uses a laptop to dj you look at the person you have a computer you’re connected to the internet you can play my song if you wanted to and you’re right that dynamic completely would think this

[Remo Giugni]
think this a dj said a dj said it’s not like a great dinner there is a dj there is a chef right we try to communicate with our heart to the customers so you begin with appetizer you don’t begin the dinner with the steak or dessert you will burn at the dinner if if i serve as a chef a steak then you don’t want torostini or pasta because we are over so can you imagine i go in the kitchen and i say to the chef oh wait this is more salt this is more pepper he’s cooking salmon and i ask him oh sorry can you put pizza on it so i always make this example so everybody can’t fake they don’t understand wow a dj set is a journey is a path is a show is moments that mainly people paid for it so if you paid for a show why you want to listen what you want or the same stuff that you you are wasting your money i will refund you the money if you if you come to a dj set of mine and you ask me to play danza kuduro sorry daddy yankee you are the best but you know i will say okay i give you back the money you don’t need me go home and you listen to spotify so a chef or dinner is the same when i’m in a restaurant i pay the bill and i’m so happy to order what i want and it’s already a huge thing because in my ideal world i go in a restaurant the chef surprised me imagine this this is a new crazy concept but i don’t even want to order what i want to eat because i can cook it in my home i go to a great chef in india i want to taste your food i can tell you what i’m allergic or i don’t like this is the next level you know but express yourself if i don’t like i won’t come anymore or i will review your job in a bad way we are open and we are all exposed to that but don’t ask me to play this or to play that yeah you ruin your own experience and you don’t even know that

[Darran]
yeah this is even worse i can relate to that in such a huge way because i’m such a huge foodie myself oh so you understand what i mean yeah i’m i’m i will i i live to go find new places to go eat um i have standards i have is the best experience cooking cooking dinner last night i made i made ribs i made a whole picnic dinner last night for me and my friend invite me for dinner please i love oh yeah you you will love my cooking but if you look online i make a lot of basic dishes because i’m at home i don’t want if i i sometimes just cook for one i’m not gonna make a big old fancy plate for just one person i’m italian i cook for six to ten people when i cook that’s just how i cook i gotta cook big meals i mean when i say four portions like if i cook four portions it’s probably like six to eight portions when i’m this is the way i gotta cook it’s just the way i got it but if but i’m not gonna go out and try to duplicate it like an indian restaurant or ethiopian restaurant or something like i’m gonna go out and say i’m gonna go let them prepare for me so i can enjoy the mood plus if i go out to buy all those ingredients it’s gonna cost me 150 dollars to make a dish but i can go to the restaurant and get it yeah so imagine if we

[Remo Giugni]
tell them how to do it we already paid a lot of money if we can you do this can you do that no we will be i don’t i don’t want to say that but i i didn’t say that but if i go in a to a chef and i pay so much money for a great dinner and i tell him how to do it i’m stupid did i said stupid no i didn’t say that stupid no sorry you know we are joking about that but even this i think if more djs take this out and we speak clearly about that people will have more knowledge because i don’t think that people are bad or people they like to bother djs they just don’t understand so yeah like we are educated i i mean from the world like i i learned that i have to say hello when i enter a place or i open the door to a lady or i say thank you please these are normal things but when i was born somebody have to taught me that if not i didn’t know so i think now we don’t have to be scared or think that we are too much rigid djs we need to tell people the the galateo of behavior and is even better for them because we save them to waste money when you go in a club when you go in a show please read before which kind of music there is because this can make people you know okay say oh it’s exaggerating no i play house music uh sets techno tech house parties somebody asked me reggaeton or vice versa because somebody go to a tech reggaeton party and they ask techno please be conscious where will you go so if we give the instruments to the customers uh to know how to behave and to go deeper in the feelings and the mood of what is a dj set people will know it maybe i will take as a dj the responsibility it’s not only people that you know that they are selfish they want to hear what they want no maybe we didn’t teach them what is a dj set i think one of the problem and that sounds like a joke but they don’t understand it’s a real job yeah they think there is a laptop or i don’t know i play with the console and they think there is the world it’s not internet this is my selection the biggest part of a dj is select the music take you in a path and surprise you with my taste so you follow me and you come to the club you come to the dj set if you think you can like the music i don’t we nobody oblige you to stay there if you don’t like it it’s the biggest judgment and we are open for that this is our life yeah and that’s

[Darran]
the biggest thing that i think when we open up our night here we’re starting it um in next next year i gotta get everything in line for it over the next month and a half and do some soft openings but the biggest thing is we’re we’re gonna do is is no cell phone we have we have a way that we’re gonna let people still hold on to their cell phone they’ll still be able to use their cell phone but they won’t be on there they won’t be doing this no exactly but you know or this or personally

[Remo Giugni]
definitely cell phones kill the vibes i agree if it’s not used to create the vibe because i was playing in a big square of florence san lorenzo i do it every year like the 10th of august but even piazza signoria where there is the old palace for carnival of florence when i was stimulating people and i don’t speak about in the microphone i really want that the music speak so i can communicate with the music so i put a great remix of freddie mercury bohemian rhapsody this is a very holy moment right we are going from house music boom boom boom to mama you know what yeah you know what i just did i took my phone i switched off the light of my phone and with my hand i showed everybody this with my light on all the square use their phone not for videos but they light up light it up all the square i was crying i had tears in my face i’m too emotional but was amazing so even the cell phone it’s about how you use it again it’s not the main thing that bothered me as a dj make videos of me make pictures i think it’s kind of a sign of uh appreciation respect if you make a video of me it means i’m cool so thank you i don’t think i’m so cool so if you make a video of me i love my videos made of me i want to know but you know what i mean i love you if the crowd do it but just remember that you have to dance because the first result of music is to make your body feel it not only your ears let’s go back about what music is we i’m a dj i didn’t invent music music it was in the first uh how do you say appears of humans in tribes in prehistoric time in medieval time in all the eras of history it was a manifestation of social moment even religious moment so mainly why all the religions and all the rituals have music because it’s an experience that take your mind your soul and your body so why you pay a ticket and you only have your ears feeling the experience you are wasting half of the money make your body and dance dance be free do whatever you want don’t only make videos but keep doing them yeah have a memory of that but not

[Darran]
all not all the time and you know speaking of relationships and people getting together and and collaborating and working together and having an experience you have a good relationship with origami management uh which is a lot of stuff with you changing a level up that i have to be

[Remo Giugni]
grateful forever yeah can you tell us how that relationship started okay it’s very easy i met okay leandro you won’t believe leandro da silva let’s make name and surnames leandro da silva and you know the thing and alessandro molinari as well the thing is this i i’m a fan of leandro da silva since i was little and he don’t believe in that he don’t want to hear that because he’s very humble but if you if now i put my usb in a console look how many songs i have from him so for me was a myth and i met him in ministry of sound when i was dj guest i think the headliner was or benny benassi or fiddler grand so other big goosebumps on my skin because i was born with the vinyls the records of them uh but i seen andrew da silva i met him and you know i began to speak to him i think he was playing after me or before me and then you know i i began to go deeper in what he’s doing and i discovered i have a great management and imagine me i’m not a new dj you know i mean like i’m a dinosaurs in the industry but going through their management and speaking with them they opened my eyes in things that were so easy to understand but until somebody don’t teach you the method i i look like stupid but for me i was blind i didn’t understand what was the right path and the right way to be try to be famous because you know famous it doesn’t mean nothing it’s a path but you can grow and for me fame or growth another very unpolitically correct things but we love it right so another thing is to be famous or to go in a higher level it’s not about the fame for myself it’s not about the money but it’s to be free to say no to clubs and people that use you without behaving good you know i mean use djs like a slave unfortunately every dj that we’re listening to us that are beginners they know what does it mean to go in a not not but there is no bad clubs there is only bad owners trust me because it’s not about the or directors but it’s not about the amount of people or the visibility because 30 people can give you emotions that 10 000 doesn’t give you i swear i swear to my life yeah but you play music i mean it look like they make you a favor they don’t recognize the dj as a job somebody sell dj spots people pay to be on a stage instead of being paid so to evolve to be more solid bigger bigger or more famous it’s not about the fame for my ego it’s not about the money it’s about being free to perform where is better where there is a better environment is the freedom of saying no to some situation because remember i’m a real dj i will play live i produce my own song and i live for the money that i earn from dj if somebody call me on monday okay you know i’m in a good level uh there is a club that called me on monday i’ll come to play i don’t only look about how is the club if it’s famous prestigious how many people there will be i say this is my job first of all i love to perform this is a problem but i love to perform secondly it’s my job so it’s a economic responsibility why i should say no if there is some criticism some problems but if the problems arrive after that i don’t know it’s empty the crowd it’s not proper they don’t want to pay you know this is we have to say these things these are stuff that not only the beginners have even djs like me can happen not often thank god if not if i was in bankrupt but can happen but you discover after so i say yes i go to perform because i love it it’s my life i feel alive when i have an audience when i express myself and then it’s my job i have to work right but to be famous or to arrive in a higher level give me the freedom to say no to situation that it’s better to say no so the the final point the the target it’s not money it’s not fame but i think for every job who think that earning a lot of money is the goal they’re missing life the goal is freedom when you are famous when you are rich and when you can say no you have time to do what you want and can be a free dj set in a big square or going fishing that i love fishing

[Darran]
this is you know you know it’s funny you mentioned andrea he’s actually on the show in two hours oh wow yeah so maybe you can tune in and chime in and check it out

[Remo Giugni]
origami gave me the tips to change from being a local dj to have all the weapons hold these shots all the suggestion to grow in the last three years that i’m working with them they opened my mind in a way that by myself was impossible impossible

[Darran]
i’m really looking forward to working with with them um you know but they’re amazing i’m sorry the

[Remo Giugni]
last thing that is so important one thing that leandro always said me music in front music speaks so i don’t want to tell you how they work you know you will you know but mainly production and make the best music makes production best release and be solid on that is the vehicle to be bigger to make all the world listen to new and trust in you as a dj he always put it in front and i agree with him he gave me a big gift music and consistency

[Darran]
always be there awesome yeah i can’t wait to i can’t wait to make the announcement but i guess i’m kind of making a little bit of announcement here if you if you i’m kind of making little announcements of like if you go to the site you see who we’re partnering with if you see if you watch our bumpers if you watch these in the show you’ll see who we’re partnering with and i can’t wait to you know my plans are i think i’m going to divert from uh from spain over to italy in 2026 and come hang out please please do it and hang out and get some good food and some good wine too yeah i will i will take care about the wine don’t worry is there anything else you want to let our

[Remo Giugni]
sessions fans know about before we let you go the last thing seriously to new generation of djs i always say that avoid shortcuts because now the market is full of amazing boxes but empty in 2025 i don’t deny that the music the the dj set and the music experience can be only music can be because we have ears but we have eyes we have the hands it’s a show we are we artists we have to deliver a show but the music have to be first if people have a big career only for the package but you open that and it’s empty it won’t last and this is invading the market about bluffs and it’s not because it’s bothering me it’s an advice for new djs don’t do that because you will disappear study hard and then make the best package for a lot of contents inside exactly

[Darran]
no shortcuts i mean i remember when i first started this it was actually a night that i actually got my first interview with paul oakenfold years ago but i was interviewing the promoter of the night and i said hey did you just rise up to success and in this industry and get up here and you know throwing all these big shows and somebody goes there are no cinderella stories in the industry there are no cinderella stories i mean if you thought somebody was overnight you didn’t see all the work they put in to get them to become an overnight sensation you know it doesn’t work like that and you know i was like i’ve always remembered that and then later that night i got interview with oakenfold and i was like this is kind of really cool i like i mean he’s a very wise man you very very very wise i was back in like oh my gosh like 2005 6 2 so like mid mid to mid mid aughts i don’t like to say we were born in the 1900s no no but we have to be proud of it i know i know well hey where can people find out more information about you and what you got going on

[Remo Giugni]
well you know instagram i published all my new gigs and my release soundcloud and spotify i was

[Darran]
doing a little research and made sure i had that instagram handle right that’s that’s the right

[Remo Giugni]
instagram handle ramo ramo if somebody if somebody want i have only fans no i’m kidding i’m kidding

[Darran]
awesome well ramo thank you very much for coming on the show today i definitely know we’re going to be following up with you and the origami crew and the labels and everything there were super excited to be working with your team and we will definitely be following up with you yeah we try to stay involved with everyone every six months and uh if something new comes up we might hit you up in three months and say get back on the show yeah i might be over in italy in the first part of me i might be over in italy the first part of in the next few months anyways

[Remo Giugni]
so we’ll see what’s going on meet you live and thank you baron so much for hosting me

[Darran]
absolutely you have a wonderful wonderful evening over there it’s not even lunchtime

[Remo Giugni]
it’s pasta time pasta time awesome all right well thank you so much for coming on the show this evening this morning it’s evening yeah now it’s 18 a.m p.m in italy but it’s morning for you

[Darran]
yeah all right well on that note don’t forget to go to our website thedjsessions.com where you can find out all about our exclusive interviews our our live interviews our exclusive mixes we have over 700 news stories that get published every month we got a new music section coming out soon our new partnerships that we have going on and a lot more at thedjsessions.com i’m your host Darran and that’s ramo juni i did it again yeah for the dj sessions now remember on the dj sessions the music never stops never