What’s 2 m tall, lives Behind the Iron Curtain, has 1605 reasons to run an awesome label, and flies? Meet UMEK, a techno legend from Slovenia.

UMEK is personally responsible for kickstarting the electronic music scene in his home country by first organizing illegal raves and then becoming one of Slovenia’s most wanted export products and the number one music ambassador to the whole world.

And he does fly! Around 100 times per year, visiting almost every continent each year. His gig diary ranges from dark underground clubs in Berlin to massive techno stages at the world’s most renowned festivals. 

Apart from making his name in the DJ booth, he’s also a tireless producer. He mostly releases on his own imprint 1605, and most of his tracks end up on the very top of Beatport’s charts. After more than 25 years as a professional musician, he decided to use his experience and skills in the entrepreneurial world. Together with his managers, he founded a music-tech startup Viberate (www.viberate.com), where they are building the world’s greatest music platform.

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Luigi Poggiani aka Siwell, born in Rome and immediately showed a deep interest for music.
As a teenager he investigated various means of production using, sequencer, keyboards and devices midi, which launched him in the world of musical productions.
In November 2006 came Siwell's first release while external collaborations and remixes followed like “Man With The Red Face” by Mark Knight and Funkagenda just to name one, remix that signing in 2008 the beginning of the collaboration with Toolroom Records until today. 
Not content though Luigi forged ahead releasing his debut artist album "Not So Minimal" on Sphera Records, label which he set up on 2008 and has had huge support with releases of the best international artists.
Actually, Siwell is one of the most active dj-producers on the Tech House scene with more than 150 official releases behind. 
In more than 15 years of DJ career he had the pleasure to perform all around the world from Europe to USA and South America in some of the most important clubs and festivals like at Space, Pachà, Ministry Of Sound, Soul Tech Festival, Cavo Paradiso, Bora Bora, ADE and Miami WMC official events just to name a few. 
In his previous years he has signed tracks on Toolroom Records, Stereo Productions, Axtone Sony Music etc. and collaborations and remixes for the most important artists such like Chus, Mihalis Safras, Mark Knight, Sebastien Leger, Butch, Umek, Roger Sanchez and many others.
Constantly evolving, In 2020 Siwell has started a new project, his new label "Tropica Recods" focused on tech house and house music, label that reached already great achievements on the global charts.

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