On 18 July, the Festa di Cinema del Reale joins forces with the fk Normality Festival for a night that spans geographies, eras and imaginations. The Castello Volante in Corigliano d’Otranto (LE) is transformed into a soundscape where the energy of club culture meets artistic exploration, featuring analogue synthesisers, Italo disco, electro, cosmic, new wave and visions that look to the future whilst remaining in dialogue with the past.
Three distinct soundscapes will accompany the journey until dawn, featuring artists from Los Angeles, Berlin, Ivrea and some of the most significant figures on the international independent electronic scene. A musical journey in which every set becomes a story, every dancefloor a space of freedom.
For years, fk Normality Festival has been exploring the boundaries between club culture, the performing arts, sound research and contemporary practices, creating experiences in which music becomes a means of imagining new ways of being together. For this collaboration, it brings a line-up to the Cinema del Reale that spans the international underground electronic scene, bridging the past and the future, nostalgia and vision.
✦ IVREATRONIC DJ SET FEATURING ENEA PASCAL
Born in the cellars of Ivrea and raised amongst clubs, festivals, taverns, mills and unlikely venues, Ivreatronic is much more than a collective: it is a community that experiences the party as a creative and liberating act. With Enea Pascal at the decks, the journey takes in acid basslines, raw rhythms, unpredictable detours and constant changes of direction.
✦ ROBERT CRASH
, a DJ and producer who ranks among the most established names on the Italian underground scene, crafts sets that span disco, acid, house and funk with a unique sensibility. His productions have been championed by artists such as Marcel Dettmann, Theo Parrish and Legowelt, and have been played in some of Europe’s most iconic electronic music venues, from Berlin’s Panorama Bar to Amsterdam’s Studio 80.
✦ FRANZ SCALA
Founder of the Berlin-based label Slow Motion and a key figure on the international scene, he brings to the decks a magnetic blend of Italian Dance, Proto House, Cosmic and Psychedelic Disco House, the result of years of exploration between Berlin and the Mediterranean.
✦ SUEÑO
Born and raised in Los Angeles, she is a DJ, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who reinterprets the legacy of the 1980s with elegance and personality. Italo Disco, Hi-NRG, New Wave, Electro and Funk coexist in her sets, creating a sonic narrative that breathes new life into a timeless world.
✦ MARTA PARADISE
The duo blends Italo Disco, synth-pop, new wave and electro with analogue synthesisers, ethereal melodies and emotive grooves. A constant dialogue between retro aesthetics and contemporary sensibilities, capable of transforming the dance floor into a space where memory and the future coexist naturally.
✦ FOUTURISTA
Art director and music selector, polymath, high priestess and slow explorer. Through her selections, she draws listeners into an orbit of sound, magma and memory, without the compass of genre, in open defiance of the constraints of linear time. Fouturista will provide the soundtrack to dawn, when the sky begins to change colour and the night slowly gives way to day.
