ORBITRAX / ORBITA — IT
INDIGO
DJ Producer & Label Owner — IT. Long-form sets where the details do the talking.
Indigo is a DJ Producer and Label Owner from Florence, Italy — part of a generation of Italian selectors more interested in the search than the spotlight.
His route into electronic music ran through industrial and hip-hop: an education in raw textures and loop discipline that still shapes the way he plays. Behind the decks he favours patience over impact, weaving minimal and tech house grooves, stripped-back electro, unreleased cuts and overlooked records into long, seamless arcs where the details do the talking. It is a style built on years of listening and digging, and on the conviction that a set should reveal its character slowly rather than announce it.
The same instinct runs through his work away from the booth. With the Florence collective ORBITA, which he co-owns, he has helped carve out a home for unconventional music in the Italian underground — bringing kindred selectors to the city and giving its dancers a room where heritage and forward-thinking club culture meet on equal terms. Through Orbitrax, ORBITA's vinyl imprint, he documents the sounds he cannot find elsewhere: music pressed to wax because it deserves to last.
Whether digging, releasing or playing, the thread is the same: a relentless curiosity, a commitment to the unconventional, and an artistic expression that stays deliberately out of step with trends. Now preparing to relocate to Barcelona, he carries the same thread to a new city and a new dancefloor.
Released
Out now on SoundCloud & Bandcamp / Orbitrax.
Setup & requirements
The setup above is required as drawn: turntables on the outside, CDJs inside, mixer centre. Please confirm any substitutions with the artist in advance.
Equipment
- 2 × Technics SL-1200 / SL-1210 turntables, in perfect working order
- 2 × Pioneer CDJ-2000NXS2 or higher (CDJ-3000), linked, latest firmware
- 1 × Mixer: Pioneer DJM-A9 / DJM-V10, or Allen & Heath Xone:92 / Xone:96
Monitoring & sound
- 2 × professional-quality monitor speakers + subwoofer, positioned at booth level
- Monitor volume must remain under the DJ's control at all times (max 101 dB)
Hospitality
- Minimum 4★ hotel — 1 × double room with late checkout
- High-speed broadband internet in room, 24h, at no cost to the artist
- 1 × hot meal for the artist before the show, or €50 buy-out