Legacy

The idea behind and the short story of Miraloop Clubs, the engine of Miraloop Records.

Miraloop Clubs, the EDM label of Miraloop Records

Clubs is the most extreme, badass, and powerful side of Miraloop. The symbol of “clubs”, just like discotheques symbolize fire and instinct. Miraloop Clubs is the only independent EDM label in a record company which ranges from classical music to pop, to experimental electronic to dance

Miraloop Clubs. A thousand faces.

Miraloop Clubs is the last of Miraloop's four independent imprints to arrive. It opens the season in 2008-2009 with "Maniac EP" by NK (now Hallucinator), "Goaland Compilation Volume 1" and several productions by Michel Lavie and Gerolamo Sacco, including "Assangue", "Selotenga" and "Pensieri Cattivi". Clubs is founded by Gerolamo Sacco and Michel Lavie, the label's first A&R curator. A year before Clubs reached the market, Gerolamo was an exclusive producer for Gigi D'Agostino (Pensieri Elettronici and previously Media Records) in Brescia, while Michel Lavie was working for Expanded Music. The two had collaborated on several occasions, primarily in the festival circuit: Street Rave Parade, Sun Explosion.

The first Miraloop Clubs releases contain innovative ideas, and very different ones from each other: from the progressive of Elia Casetti Orchestra to the psytrance of Imago. In 2010 the market calls for a sharper focus on a specific genre: the team shelves the idea of a global EDM project to build instead a hub of six independent imprints, each organised around a musical genre. Jack of Clubs Records (prog/minimal), Queen of Clubs Records (trance), King of Clubs Records (electro), Ten of Clubs Records (psy-goa, curated by MK Records) and Underground Area (drum'n'bass - dubstep, curated by DJ Ferro) are born.

In 2011 Geo From Hell previews "Warriors" at one of the first Tomorrowland editions: it becomes the first Miraloop track ever to enter the Beatport Top 100. Around that time many of Italy's techno, psy and drum'n'bass festivals are organised in collaboration with the Miraloop Clubs team: Andrenokromo, Goaland, Magnetik, Art of Trance, among others. Many releases follow over the years.

In 2014-2015, after hundreds of productions, some successes and several hidden gems, the project enters a phase of total transformation. Geo From Hell wins TopDJ and signs with Sony Music. Underground Area, a Miraloop Clubs sub-label, is handed over to its curator and creator, DJ Ferro. In 2015 the new Miraloop Clubs launches for the first time as a standalone label: that summer Radio 105 selects it as label of the week on the programme InDaKlubb.
From 2016 onwards releases slow down, but chart placements become more consistent. In 2016 Miraloop moves to its new premises at via Stalingrado 105, with its own recording studios. In 2017 distribution moves to the French company Believe.In early 2019 comes "Satisfied Club Mixes": Geo From Hell returns to Miraloop after his Sony adventure, alongside Andy Fluon — the stage name of Andrea Fumagalli of Bluvertigo, co-founder of the band with Morgan in the early nineties, film composer and long-time explorer of the territory between new wave and club music. The remix package enters the iTunes/Apple Music Italy top 10.

From 2022 onwards Clubs consolidates a vision increasingly rooted in progressive house and melodic techno, establishing its own distinct sonic identity. The most representative chapter of this direction is "The Progressive Suite Volume 1", a compilation of twenty tracks produced by Miraloop that reaches number 25 on the Beatport Top 100 Progressive House — and which includes, among its tracks, Gerolamo Sacco's remix of "Atlantide" by Sir Jane: the first appearance of the Italian language in a club context on the label, with the track entering the iTunes Dance chart.

On the search for a new EDM frontier

Clubs points to one objective: giving dance music new sounds and faces, something innovative. This distinguishes Miraloop Clubs from the majority of independent techno, house, or dance labels out there, who merely shadow other labels. Our search for something new and different comes from our history of unifying many diverse elements. We’ve made drum’n’bass, prog, deep. Now we want to follow a path and tell you a new story.

Clubs on Radio Miraloop

You can listen to Clubs’ music on Radio Miraloop which offers a broadcast dedicated to a more refined vision of club music with a selection of prog, house, and minimal.

THE PROGRESSIVE SUITE From 10PM to 12AM

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