Mauro Rizla

Born: October 1974 Pescara - ITALY Active since: 1992 Projects: Mauro Rizla, Unpronounceable, Hot Chocolate, Cockette, Whitek Genres: Techno, House, Disco, Electronic, Others.. Mauro Rizla was born in Pescara (Italy) in 1974. He grew up listening to his father's records (Moroder, Kraftwerk, Suicide, Alan Parsons Project, Neu!...) and today, those records remain heritage of great sentimental value. He discovered his passion for DJing at a young age of 13, when in those years Afro/Funk music was very popular in his area. Due to the strong similarity between his surname and the famous brand of rolling papers, his friends lovingly dubbed him Rizla, and his alias was born. The rest, they say, is history. He was born artistically in the early 90’s at “AudioMusicRadio”, a well-known radio station around his area during those years. Always focused to seek new sounds he became a name around the underground scene of the Abruzzo region for his elegant style with funky, garage and jazzy contaminations, that unexpectedly changes with poignant highlights of techno. Mauro moved to northern Italy in 2008 where he became a member of "hot chocolate" dj's group and started to work with digital tools as a producer. In 2011 he became dj resident at Cockette party in Milan (project actually hold on since Dj Max_M, as one of the founders, passed away) that has given the opportunity to perform in the best clubs in Milan like DUDE Club, Plastic and Q21. Always in 2011 he founded the "Whitek" project with other djs, a collective in continuous development that gave birth to many collaborations. From 2015 based in Amsterdam, developing also the "Unpronounceable" project to express its origins related to Electro, Dark Wave, Post Punk, Psych, Industrial, Experimental. http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/maurorizladj https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/unpronounceable https://soundcloud.com/maurorizla https://www.discogs.com/artist/4737319-Mauro-Rizla