Max Durante

Max Durante is a Rome-based DJ and producer working in EBM and industrial techno, with a sound built on hard, mechanical rhythms and a confrontational, underground ethos. He started DJing in Rome in 1987 and was part of Italy's 1990s rave generation, co-organizing raves and founding Automatic Sound Unlimited, a project credited with laying groundwork for the country's first industrial and hard techno sound. That three-decade history gives his sets context beyond the current scene, which makes them worth catching if you want industrial techno from someone who helped shape its Italian roots.