Audiofly are Luca Saporito and Anthony Middleton, two hotshot DJ/Producers making big waves in the dance scene with their forward thinking music and lively DJ sets. Their music is described as ‘deadly Techno meets Electronic House’ and as ‘a powerful and original style of music’. Relatively new to the scene as Audiofly, the duo’s enthusiasm for the music and scene in general is infectious.
Anthony Middleton met Luca Saporito in early 2000 when he was trying an experiment in surround sound. “I was trying to introduce it into a club environment and it didn’t really work out,” Middleton confesses. He had little budget, but Saporito agreed to work as a DJ in the club anyway. “We found that we had really good fun together and a really good energy so it was a logical thing to do a remix (Live Love) which worked really well.”
Live Love, released in 2004, was picked up by big name DJs such as Steve Lawler, DJ Ralf, Victor Calderone & Danny Tenaglia, bringing them world wide acclaim and attention. Their own tunes Release Yourself, Rockin It and Do You Hear? were picked up by labels such as Low Pressings, Deleted Records, Fantastic House and Jackit Records. Middleton describes his sound as “very driving, having elements of techno and house, and it’s incredibly percussive which break down into melodies. It’s high energy without being hard.”
But they don’t just stick to house, offering a wide variety of sounds from all over the place. “We always get our inspiration from what we hear on the weekends,” Middleton smiles. “We’re constantly moving our sound because we’re constantly out there and listening. For example, we’ve taken elements from the minimal fad – the beats are very simple and yet incredibly powerful, and we’ve taken that kind of philosophy for our beats but added the melodic Audio Fly sound. And hearing the fresher, younger DJs on the scene also influences us. They’re excited about the music and are pushing where the old pros tend to sit back a little bit.”
In addition to rocking clubs with their productions, they have quite a reputation as DJs. Unlike many of their contemporaries, who tend to play ‘mini-sets” of 3 or 4 tunes in a row, their DJ style is as a duo – one will play a record, then the next will play another. “We tried early on to do three and three, but we found we dynamically bounce off of each other. We’re not competitive – Luca will play a track and I’ll know just the track to play after that,” he says. “We tried one off us DJing off CDJs and the other ‘live’ on Ableton, but we felt like we lost some of our energy. The guy looking at the computer is constantly looking at it and we lost our dynamic.”
However, it’s a different situation in the studio. “The last thing you need is two people twiddling the controls, resetting things and changing things,” laughs Middleton. “I’m the more engineering of the two of us, although we’re both perfectly capable I’m much faster because I’ve been doing it a longer time!”
This is the first time the duo has been to Australia to perform. “Everyone in my family has been there except me,” laments Middleton, “and I hear really, really good things about it. Luca’s been there on holiday, last year. Luca went to Australia and I went to Slovenia!” he laughs. “He was in the sunshine and I was in minus 10 degrees,” so Middleton is looking forward to coming, even if it is in our winter.
Audiofly play We Love Sounds at HQ on Fri 1 June alongside James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli, D.Ramirez, Alan Braxe, Kris Menace, Audiofly, Riton, KOS, , Bang Gang DJ’s, Mobin Master and more