Topper
Topper grew up in Turin, Italy surrounded by substances and tunes typical of a hippie-kind of environment. Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd were his milk. His dad, the ‘hippie’, had a huge influence on him, and introduced his curious kid into the magic of music and psychedelic culture. That’s the reason why he felt like he was born for music… Then, by the end of the millennium, it seemed to him that this ‘childhood’ music was missing the point. He turned around the corner and found electronic music. Cheesy trance and muddy house at the beginning and later on, in 2001, he started to listen to electro-techno, attending never ending after-hours…
Rapidly he got in touch with more ‘minimal’ sounds and started djing. The big shift occurred during the summer of 2005: Right after taking his high-school diploma he moved to Berlin. It took some months to get into the scene, but by the end of 2005 he joined the ‘Klangsucht’ crew, playing at numerous underground parties, open-airs, afterhours and so on…
