Cio Assereto
(Label Manager/DJ from SITZERLAND)

　

CIO ASSERETO, LABELMANAGER FROM SPEZIALMATERIAL, SWITZERLAND. + SPEZIALMATERIAL-DJ. PROMOTER FOR SPEZIALMATERIAL-PARTIES IN ZURICH

SWITZERLAND'S ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE IS STILL IN MOVING AND I GUESS IT IS STILL SET IN A KIND OF UNDERGROUND SCENE. BUT THERE IS A BIG MOVEMENT WITH ARTISTS AND LABELS. IN ZURICH WE HAVE A COMFORTABLE SITUATION THAT THERE ARE MANY KIND OF ILLEGAL PARTIES WHERE UNKNOWN ACTS CAN SHOW THEIR LIVEACTS AND MUSIC IN PUBLIC.

THERE ARE ALSO SOME KIND CULTURAL FUNDINGS TO GIVE TO HELP SWISS ELECTRONIC LABELS AND ARTISTS TO RELEASE RECORDS AND DEVELOPE THEIR MUSICAL IDEAS. AND SOME IMPORTANT CLUB-PROMOTER ASWELL AS RECORD-SHOPS DO REALLY CARE ABOUT SWISS LABELS INSTEAD BOOKING JUST ALREADY KNOWN AND SET INTERNATIONAL-DJ+LIVEACTS-STARS.... BUT ITS ALL ABOUT SURVIVING WITH A LABEL AND STILL A LONG WAY TO GO.... MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT QUALITY OF MUSIC STAYS ALWAYS HIGH SO THERE WILL BE NO PROBLEM BEING NOTICED IN THE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE.

A LOT IS HAPPENING. LOTS OF RELEASES ARE COMING OUT, NEW LABELS AND ARTISTS WILL COME. OF COURSE THERE IS STILL A BIG CONCENTRATION ON THE GERMAN AND ENGLISH ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE BUT FROM TIME TO TIME MORE ARTIST AND LABELS WILL GROW FROM OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SO NO MORE BORDERS ARE SET OF COURSE.

SPECIALLY WITH ALL LAPTOP-MADNESS AROUND EVERYBODY CAN MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN SOMEHOW THROUGH THE NET OR WHATEVER. THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT QUALITY OF MUSIC STAYS HIGH... BUT THE MOVEMENT IS GOOD AND I HOPE MORE NETWORKING WILL HAPPEN TO HELP EACHOTHER OUT WITH PLAYING LIVE AROUND IN EUROPE AND SO ON..

I ALSO HOPE MORE INDIVIDUAL MUSIC WILL HAPPEN INSTEAD OF COPYING ALREADY SET AND KNOWN ARTISTS...

WELL SOMEHOW LOT OF INFLUENCES CAME FROM AMERICAN ELECTRONIC ARTISTS. AND THERE IS STILL LOTS HAPPENING. I KNOW THERE ARE MANY GOOD PEOPLE SPREAD AROUND THE US BUT THE COUNTRY IS SO BIG SO NEVER CAN REALLY SORT OUT WHAT IS COMING FROM WHERE.
I HAVE SPENT MANY TIMES IN NEW YORK AND FOR EXAMPLE THE RECORD SHOPS ARE REALLY GOOD BUT I HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT THERE IS JUST A LITTLE MOVEMENT OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC PARTIES.. OF COURSE BIG ELECTRONIC LABELS + ARTISTS GET OFTEN POSSIBILITIES TO PLAY LIVE IN AMERICA BUT I GUESS MORE IN BIG CONCERT HALLS OR SMALL BARS.

I ALSO KIND OF OBSERVED THAT SOME AMERICAN ELECTRONIC ARTISTS DO MOVE TO CITIES LIKE BERLIN TO MAKE THEIR VISION HAPPEN AS IN THOSE CITIES THE ELECTRONIC SCENE IS MORE CONCENTRATED.