Fabio Aurea

From his early years, Fabio has always been immersed in music. His father was a musician and he passed his passion for music onto his son. As these passions grew, so did his preferences and tastes, where he started to lean towards electronic music, and would spend all his money on tapes and vinyls.

Regular visits to Take5, a notable club in Switzerland would follow, where he would take in legends of the scene such as Masters at Work, Laurent Garnier, Jeff Mills, Kerri Chandler, Frankie Feliciano, Tiefschwarz, Terry Hunter, Erick Morillo, Harry “ChooChoo“ Romero, and many others.

In 2007, from his base in Switzerland, he bought his first music software and his musical journey started to see its first glimpses of light. In Three years later he started the record label “ShadesAtNight” with a group of friends. They put out standout releases such as Jazzy Shades' (2001 A Space Odyssey EP), Mosvana & Kandi (l’Afrique Electronique EP), Takamaki, and Tekamaki (Tekamaki EP). On a personal level, in 2013 he collaborated with Yass (Defected Records) and Alexandre Destrez (pianist of Saint Germain) to realise one of his dreams when he had started out. They released two tracks on the legendary NYC record label King Street Sounds: 'Z Tribute' and 'Popovka Morning’.

Further releases followed like “Raw Kiss” on miniMarket and “Night Call” on Swiss imprint Hive Audio, before last year his track “Yini’ was released on SABB’s label Radiant, and immediately found success whilst going to #1 in the Beatport charts. It featured three notable remixes from Serge Devant, Frederick Stone and Italian duo Armonica, and was heavily backed by BBC R1 tastemaker Pete Tong, whilst also featured strong support all summer from the likes of Black Coffee. It finished the year by being announced as one of Mixmag’s top 100 tunes.

Fabio has followed that success up with the strong release “ Hideout” on Nervous Records, and has releases to come in early 2020 on Radiant again. An exciting artist with his finger on the pulse and a production career to inspire, be sure to keep an eye on him over the coming months for his next big moves.