With a 40-year career behind him, DJ Ralf certainly needs no introduction. For this new appointment with Inside the charts, Giosuè Impellizzeri recovers a top ten of his February 1998, carefully analyzing its contents and together with the project A.R.S. Vision transforms in audio format the article published for Decadance. 

Inside, we find house music of valuable workmanship signed, among others, by Joe Montana, Da Mob, Native Soul and D. Funk Era. There's also room for tracks destined to make crossovers and place themselves in the mainstream of the times such as "House Music" by Eddie Amador, "The Word Is Love" by The Voices Of Life (i.e. Steve "Silk" Hurley and Sharon Pass) and "Troubled Girl" by Karen Ramirez.

TRACKLIST:

+  Barbara Tucker - Beautiful People 

+ Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers - Everyone Wants To Be (E-Smooves Generator Mix)

+ Native Soul feat. Trey Washington - A New Day  (Original Version)

+ Eddie Amador - House Music (Original mix)

+ Joe Montana - La Movida (Edit Dream Beat Rec. 1997)

+ Da Mob feat Jocelyn Brown - Fun Basement (Jaxxs Mongoloid Dub)

+ Voices Of Life - The Word Is Love Say The Word (Mood II Swing Dub)

+ Department Of Soul feat Toney Jones Deep Swing Vocal – Love Will Find You 

+ D Funk Era - Spring

+ Karen Ramirez - Troubled Girl (Masters At Work Alternative Vocal RMX)

STORIES OF DECADANCE - Inside the chart w./ Dj Ralf

In-depth // Podcast // Storytelling // Chart // Mix & Selections // 

All together in the same sound flow

Born in Rome at the end of 80’s, grown constantly surrounded by music, Stefano Rocchi started working on music as a game or "beatboxing” with his friend Sirio Gry J. 
Stefano Rocchi also involved with graphics, architecture, and mathematics, got to learn more and more about sound design and the hardware structure of audio systems, adopting an engineering approach.
The music culture going through Techno, like Detroit style or more Chicago House, until Minimal rhythm and Rock atmosphere.
Music is passion and Stefano wants to share emotions through electronic beats; his sound got spread over Europe in clubs like Rashomon, Circolo deli Illuminati, Magazzino33, Muzak, Bilbliotechina, Trecentosessantagradi, Vicious, Animal Social Club and Stadlin in Rome, Russian Bar (in London) and La Macarena (Barcelona). Now that he shaped up a deeply personal Live set, the artist is looking forward to spread these more intimate ideas to those who are looking for something deeper.
Stefano's workflow is focused on the research of a very unique sound; despite the short activity of few years, his persistency allowed him to deliver a big amount of truly original productions to many different labels already and to print his first vinyl called "Contatto" on Love Blast, followed several months later by the second record, "Contrasto" on Blackwater; digital and vinyl productions now is focused more on Electronic sounds and releases on Secret Keywords plus others on Analogic Density express this style, such the last on a VA with a special family: Minimal Rome.
Now he’s more Electro Sound focused and many project with another friendship born like Giano Electrnonics will come soon!