Francesco Del Garda

Born in Italy in 1978, Francesco Del Garda discovered electronic music as a teenager and early on developed a practice centered on vinyl, which has remained at the heart of his work as a DJ. His trajectory unfolded over time, first within the Italian underground scenes and later across a wider network of European clubs and festivals. Francesco Del Garda crafts long, progressive sets where house, techno, electro, garage and minimal intersect, with a pronounced taste for funky rhythms, supple basslines and tracks that build intense repetitive tension. His approach relies less on instant impact than on continuity, shifts in texture and the way older tracks, crate-digging rarities and more recent productions are articulated together. This mode of linking different eras of dance music gives Francesco Del Garda a distinct, legible identity, attentive both to the history of house and techno scenes and open to more offbeat or rawer forms. His trajectory thus remains closely tied to the DJ-set culture, to the selection and circulation of little-exposed records.