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DJ Tennis / RA

Years before he was established under the name DJ Tennis, Manfredi Romano brought acts like Matmos, Prefuse 73, Fennesz and Thomas Brinkmann to play in Italy as a promoter, agent and tour manager. He calls this time in his life as “the gateway that brought me from being a nerd to being a raver.” The music he loved most back then—the kind of glitchy, leftfield electronic music pioneered in the early ’90s by labels like Warp, Skam and Sähkö—remains close to Romano’s heart. In his RA Podcast, the Italian artist embraces these influences. Recorded while living in lockdown, he used a cassette field recorder, turntable and laptop to stitch together a 70-minute mix that serves as a window into his all-important “gateway music.”