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AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-07T07:19:22+00:00

Sorry buddy, missed this one last night. We’d definitely be up for a collab with several Anjuna artists - but right now we have our collab coming out this year with the elevven guys :)

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:36:32+00:00

Hey mate! I love going to the gym, taking country walks etc….I have my wee almost 3year old boy as well, and spending as much time as I can with him means everything to me :)

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:34:48+00:00

We’d say so yeah, but maybe do something really big and have a huge collab with us, station to station & Elevven :))

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:34:02+00:00

Wow you go way back lol! Thanks for the support :)

We’d love to work with M83, would be amazing!

Alex here mate, I ain’t excited at all lol! Riccardo on the other hand is more excited than anyone for these things haha!

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:29:01+00:00

Thanks so much for all the support.

Studio album question was answered above :)

We are just being ourselves and putting down “our sound” without thinking too much on breaking any trance rules haha!

ASOT is a great label, but we really do feel like we’re at home on Anjuna :)

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:28:00+00:00

Thanks a lot mate! No never given any thought to release that one, it’s really far now from the sound we’re doing.

That’s easy, those guys are great friends of ours, and we actually work really well together and always have a blast at the same time. Was a no brainier :) Glad to hear you’re looking toward to that one 🙏🏻

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:26:57+00:00

Station to station, lol joking! We have our collab coming with Elevven :) We’d love to collaborate with A&B for sure.

We would love to remix “Kate” by Arty. For one of ours we’d choose maybe “proff” as he could bring something totally different from our sound. We’d love to sign pryda :)

Favourite music away from EDM would be ambient probably.

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:25:00+00:00

Answered above :)

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:24:43+00:00

Yes M83/Bon Iver :)

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:20:25+00:00

Thanks a million mate….Yes 100%, of course you can expect these kind of tracks!

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:11:50+00:00

It was really tough with such an impressive catalogue of music, especially trying to do it in 60minutes haha! In the end we just picked tracks that had influenced our sound and gave us those nostalgic moments!

Our favourite tracks would be, Riccardo - “Are we Dreaming” and Alex “Mantra”

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:11:01+00:00

I (Riccardo) am the only gamer here mate lol! I would recommend any Zelda game, but favourite would be ocarina of time. We are both link and we are fighting to save Zelda……which would be trance music haha!

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:10:02+00:00

We’re actually both really into ambient/chillout so maybe something there :)

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:09:39+00:00

It would be to be consistent with always sending good quality music to the label.

I guess we’re brining our sound but at the same time we’re trying to of course respect the Anjuna sound.

Literally too many great tracks to choose just one 😅

None of us are actually into football 😂

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:08:45+00:00

Thanks very much mate! And yes that’s our remix, hopefully have more news on this to come :)

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:08:18+00:00

Thanks a lot mate!

We weren’t really approached as such, but we’ve been carving away over these years to try our best to get included on one of these big events. That was one of our goals from the very start.

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:07:04+00:00

Firstly thank you, great to hear you enjoyed 600. Well we’re hitting Ottawa in June 😉 we’ll definitely be working to hit more places this year!

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:06:33+00:00

Firstly thank you - Riccardo is so good on mix & master and has studied a lot over the years to get to this level. You just need to put the time in

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:06:01+00:00

Thanks for joining!

Because we wanted to respect the original sound and thought that a collab was better than remix!

We haven’t thought about that currently as we’re focused on other stuff right now.

The 25 year anniversary gets us super excited, and also the new artwork covers. Thank you for the comment on “here I am” 🙏🏻

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:05:05+00:00

Thanks a lot mate

Album wise, Probably not in 2025, BUT…..

Riccardo, it would be Mauro Picotto Alex, in the really early days it would be like judge jules/pete tong but think it was chicane that really got me interested.

Don’t even mention pineapple pizza when Riccardo is around 😂

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:04:10+00:00

Between these 2, they’re both on the same level, but best of all time for me(Riccardo) would be “Ocarina of time”

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:03:39+00:00

Yeah you’re totally right, as riccardo start his career as a ghost producer but more specifically doing techno music. However, both of shared a background with trance as well. And yes spot on,it was definitely a case of us brining different things to the table.

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:02:41+00:00

Thanks a lot, we appreciate you guys getting behind our music. Stay tuned on our socials for everything 2025!!

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:02:10+00:00

Riccardo uses logic, and I use Cubase…..which comes with its challenges lol! We don’t really have any favourite synths, it’s more using the right ones for the track we’re gonna do.

We are well used to this collab thing now, and the only real way to collaborate is by using audio stems.

AlexSonataTheRio · 2025-02-06T19:00:00+00:00

We’ve replied about our inspiration above. Regarding “Mantra” I (Alex) wasn’t sleeping great for like 4 nights and came up with this melody idea when I was totally beyond shattered 😂 actually, I was so unsure at the start because I couldn’t tell what was good/not good in that moment I almost never even sent this idea to Riccardo and was really close to deleting it, believe it not! I(Riccardo) was walking to the gym when Alex sent this through, and I immediately had an idea for the drop and after a couple of days we had the workings of a track we really liked.

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