Milano da bere, paninari, Moncler and El Charro belts. Vincenzo Salvia on growing up in southern Italy and carrying the 80s like a parallel world, long before he knew how to turn it into music.
Tag: synthwave
Why I prefer making albums in a world that only wants singles
Italian producer Vincenzo Salvia on why he keeps making albums: full stories, common threads, mini-ebooks and podcasts included. A world that wants singles. Him with a bottle of red and a full menu.
“Take-Away” music: Why I make music for your midnight drives
Vincenzo Salvia is a Milan-based music producer and audio engineer known for synthwave, italo disco, horrorsynth, and eurodance. His track Italian Gigolo appeared in Stranger Things Season 3 on Netflix. In this post he explores the art of the take-away: music that listeners steal for their private rituals, their midnight drives, their unspoken moments. Not a genre piece, but a meditation on why intimacy is the real currency of sound.
I made a track in 3 days and another one in 3 years. Which one is worth more?
Twenty tracks a year. Then silence. I've been thinking about what that means, and whether the music I made fast was worth more or less than the music I made slowly. There's no easy answer. But there is an honest one.
How to become a successful synthwave producer
I want to go back to my previous post about démodé, specifically the part about the algorithm. Let me take a step back to the 2010s when I was releasing my first EPs and publishing them on social media with zero strategy. On Facebook there was an incredible community (the Synthetix group, for those who … Continue reading How to become a successful synthwave producer
Démodé
We had an Italian AI called Emma-5. Yesterday, for 24 hours only, then they shut her down because she wasn't ready, she was giving wrong and completely crazy answers. Someone asked her how many R's are in the word "ramarro".She answered: "About 50 per day, correlated to population variability and age".Someone asked her how much … Continue reading Démodé
Can you be nostalgic for something that never happened to you?
A few weeks ago I was at a dinner, sitting next to someone I'd just met. Small talk, work questions, the usual "so what do you do" that every Italian dinner table produces at some point between the antipasto and the second glass of wine. I told him I make music. He asked what kind. … Continue reading Can you be nostalgic for something that never happened to you?
22 albums. 22 stories. What’s behind my synthwave music?
This week I closed the "Album Stories" podcast with Europarty. It was the final stop, starting with outrun, traveling through synthwave and ending it with the unforgettable beat of the 90s, that era of freedom, shiny tracksuits, and pure energy. It was the sound that reminded us how to just dance and forget the rest. … Continue reading 22 albums. 22 stories. What’s behind my synthwave music?
“Unfinished”, my new single is out on digital.
For a long time I felt satisfied, complete, and I didn't have much to say in music. I went back to listen to my early albums. I immersed myself in those days again, I went back to relive those feelings when everything was uncertain, I still didn't know much about myself and what I would … Continue reading “Unfinished”, my new single is out on digital.
How I ended up on the Stranger Things Soundtrack
back in 2019 i was making pizza at home and this email arrives saying my track italian gigolo was chosen for stranger things like when my uncle gianni won the lottery but lost the ticket and i thought it was a scam like those nigerian prince emails promising you money and instead it was actually … Continue reading How I ended up on the Stranger Things Soundtrack
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