Daniele Baldelli & Gaudi – Between Zenith and Nadir

When Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli met the dub producer Gaudi at the Jazz Café in London three years ago, it was no coincidence; it was an attraction between souls of a like kind. Despite the segregation of careers along the imaginary lines of music, this meeting sparks a collaboration that effortlessly bonds continents and genres.

The cooperation spread over two very different yet interrelated places: Metatron Studio in London by Gaudi, full of analogue synthesisers and outdated equipment, and Baldelli’s sanctuary in Cattolica, containing over 65,000 vinyl records over fifty years of music history. Within these sonic libraries, they’ve concocted ‘Between Zenith and Nadir’, the EP’s lead single.

This, their four-track compilation, interweaves something entirely new with psychedelic-funk, tribal-dub, electronic-disco, and Baldelli’s singular Afro Cosmic spirit. Sessions grew naturally as unplanned grooves developed into dialogues between DJ intuition and producer craft. There were no commercial aims behind their approach; it was driven solely by pure curiosity and a love for music as an unfettered language.

This was Baldelli’s cosmo dancefloor vision meeting Gaudi’s dub psychedelia-infused club culture and world music sensibilities. As for their mutual chemistry, the eclectic spirit collectively forms a linguistic sound that defies categorisation, instead embracing its worlds, where tribal rhythms throb amidst electronic soundscapes and cosmic energies reverberate in the dub void.