Now & Next: Mistura Pura

Now & Next is a quick-fire interview series built around two simple but telling questions. We ask artists to reflect on where they’re at in their career and creative journey, and where they’re headed next. For each answer, they pick two tracks: one that sums up where they’re at right now, and another that hints at where they’re going. The artists also drop a few lines about each track, giving us a peek into their creative mindset.

now and next BANNER MISTURA PURA

Now & Next is a quick-fire interview series built around two simple but telling questions. We ask artists to reflect on where they’re at in their career and creative journey, and where they’re headed next. For each answer, they pick two tracks: one that sums up where they’re at right now, and another that hints at where they’re going. The artists also drop a few lines about each track, giving us a peek into their creative mindset.

Mistura Pura Q&A

Where Am I?

The world is not enough, you need a place. A place to be and find yourself. A place that whispers ancient stories of wind. Wind that over thousands of years has characterized its shape and fame. Deep roots that embrace the earth, rust-colored plowed earth while the sun caresses the silvery foliage of olive trees. Every morning this scenario in the Agro di Ostuni presents itself to me when I wake up. Time that passes slowly, like the eternity kept between these leaves.

Where Am I Going?

When you finally learn to live in the present you treasure the past but leave it there, well guarded in its place and without nostalgia. I also conceptually love Brazilian music for this, as well as for its rhythmic and sweet harmonies. Because through its concept of ‘saudade’ it taught me to stop the moments, or the moment, of that fleeting present. This is wealth, celebratory wealth, without remaining trapped in that moment which, far from gone, makes provision for the future. A future for me already expressed in the past (😂) in the two ‘African Circles’ and therefore certainly more afro… electro… house… tribal… More Chicago than Rio.

Track (Now):
Mistura Pura ft Jessica Lauren, Buscrates - C.da Deserto

"C.da Deserto is a deserted area in the Agro di Ostuni, Puglia, south Italy full of cultivated fields with olive trees and prickly pears. Perhaps the only stretch of real countryside that still remains at the gates of Salento. I got lost here on the first day of November 2022 under a universal deluge and a crazy wind. I had just moved but I didn't remember which district my house was in. It all comes from the voice that I use here as if it were a flute and from the classical piano loop that I had on my hard disk for twenty-five years. I generated drum samples and a bass line. The rest came together. woth Jessica Lauren (classical piano/fender rhodes) and Buscrates (all synths) I would say with a lot of love."

Track (Next):
Indingo Tracks
Rites & Rituals - Remix

"When I started selecting music on the two Pioneer CDJ100 players, it was a search for more contemplative or figurative music. I was following my own vibe that completely coincidentally married the fashion of the moment. It was 2000, people wanted to hear the waves and imagine sunsets in the grayness of Milan. I instead gave vent to a great passion that was never reciprocated. However, the two things worked and I worked a lot. Then the fashion changed and in parallel the embers of my passion went out. Then I took another direction that was certainly more difficult to spread in Italian clubs: that of jazz funk that shocked me and totally enveloped me. It was and remains so in vogue in London clubs and cafes but it is still very difficult to spread here today. The sets that I currently propose on vinyl are divided into two parts: Souljazz - Jazzfunk - Latin Jazz the first and then I veer towards tribal house but also something minimal tech, in short I actually mix all those productions of those who, before creating them, clearly had ears for the greats of jazz."

Where Am I?

The world is not enough, you need a place. A place to be and find yourself. A place that whispers ancient stories of wind. Wind that over thousands of years has characterized its shape and fame. Deep roots that embrace the earth, rust-colored plowed earth while the sun caresses the silvery foliage of olive trees. Every morning this scenario in the Agro di Ostuni presents itself to me when I wake up. Time that passes slowly, like the eternity kept between these leaves.

Track (Now):
Mistura Pura ft Jessica Lauren, Buscrates
C.da Deserto

"C.da Deserto is a deserted area in the Agro di Ostuni, Puglia, south Italy full of cultivated fields with olive trees and prickly pears. Perhaps the only stretch of real countryside that still remains at the gates of Salento. I got lost here on the first day of November 2022 under a universal deluge and a crazy wind. I had just moved but I didn't remember which district my house was in. It all comes from the voice that I use here as if it were a flute and from the classical piano loop that I had on my hard disk for twenty-five years. I generated drum samples and a bass line. The rest came together. woth Jessica Lauren (classical piano/fender rhodes) and Buscrates (all synths) I would say with a lot of love."

Where Am I Going?

When you finally learn to live in the present you treasure the past but leave it there, well guarded in its place and without nostalgia. I also conceptually love Brazilian music for this, as well as for its rhythmic and sweet harmonies. Because through its concept of ‘saudade’ it taught me to stop the moments, or the moment, of that fleeting present. This is wealth, celebratory wealth, without remaining trapped in that moment which, far from gone, makes provision for the future. A future for me already expressed in the past (😂) in the two ‘African Circles’ and therefore certainly more afro… electro… house… tribal… More Chicago than Rio.

Track (Next):
Indingo Tracks
Rites & Rituals - Remix

"When I started selecting music on the two Pioneer CDJ100 players, it was a search for more contemplative or figurative music. I was following my own vibe that completely coincidentally married the fashion of the moment. It was 2000, people wanted to hear the waves and imagine sunsets in the grayness of Milan. I instead gave vent to a great passion that was never reciprocated. However, the two things worked and I worked a lot. Then the fashion changed and in parallel the embers of my passion went out. Then I took another direction that was certainly more difficult to spread in Italian clubs: that of jazz funk that shocked me and totally enveloped me. It was and remains so in vogue in London clubs and cafes but it is still very difficult to spread here today. The sets that I currently propose on vinyl are divided into two parts: Souljazz - Jazzfunk - Latin Jazz the first and then I veer towards tribal house but also something minimal tech, in short I actually mix all those productions of those who, before creating them, clearly had ears for the greats of jazz."