Filippo Giani
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FilippoGiani

Producer and DJ from Lugano, living in St. Moritz. Making dance records since 1991,
and back in the studio for good.

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Music

Eight releases since the official return in 2026. Open a sleeve to hear 30 seconds, read the story and find it on your platform.

Under the Moon

Single, released 29 May 2026

A night walk with the dog around the still lake of St. Moritz. Stars, village lights and a full moon overhead, but no moon in the water. That image became the line at the heart of the song: under the moon, we are the stars. Offbeat 90s piano on a KORG M1, music and lyrics written in a single night.

Reset

Single, released 18 May 2026

A slower pulse after four high-energy singles. The spark was a quiz-show cue on the TV in the next room, soothing and repetitive like a metronome. Repeating bass, suspended pads, long strings and a lyric cut down to a mantra. Breathe in, let go.

No Light Without The Dark

Single, released 17 May 2026

It started as a hard, hypnotic tech-house loop that felt unfinished for days. The missing piece came on an afternoon with Pink Floyd and Héroes del Silencio: guitars and synths carrying the weight of another era. No light, the present, without the dark, the past. The bridge breaks open like punk, then drops back to the floor.

First Touch

Single, released 16 May 2026

Born on a long drive with director Emanuel Paliotta, hours of 70s, 80s and 90s music, and Dirty Dancing coming back to mind. A guitar sample stripped down to a deep, hypnotic bassline. Dark, elegant British house about the first kiss and the moment desire turns into awareness.

I’m in You

Single, released 15 May 2026

Minimal, bass-driven house with a 90s heart. The chorus is stitched from tributes to the records of that decade, from Snap! to Dr. Alban and Gala, and the title carries a second meaning: the 90s are still in me. Male rap verses against a female chorus, the classic Eurodance shape in a darker, sleeker sound.

You & I, Will Survive

Single, released 11 May 2026

The bright offbeat piano of 90s British house, played on the legendary KORG M1. Two people who once stood side by side, almost partners in crime, and what their bond leaves behind after it changes shape. Not a song about endings. What we built will survive.

Digital Love (Don’t Call My Name)

Album, seven tracks, released 30 April 2026

Seven tracks that travel from light to shadow. The album opens in the open air of Bang Boom Summer and sinks, track by track, into the dark, reduced space of Don’t Call My Name. Dance-pop, night-time groove and plain writing about filtered love and an identity that slowly dissolves. Built to be heard in order.

  1. Bang Boom Summer
  2. Living La Vida
  3. Three Is The Magic Number
  4. Freeze
  5. Don’t Stop
  6. Digital Love
  7. Don’t Call My Name

35 Years In: A Work in Seven Movements

Album, seven movements, released 15 March 2026

Thirty-five years after the first record, a concept album in seven movements through the sounds of a whole career. For the first time the lyrics came first, then the melody, then the music. It is also his first work with AI in the process, next to Logic, MIDI instruments and samples. Built to be heard in order.

  1. Universe Inside
  2. Hands Making Plans
  3. People I Don’t Know
  4. Sealed With A Kiss
  5. Disappear to Feel
  6. Power
  7. Still

Story

A jazz band, a trumpet, a recording studio after school. Then the dance floors of the 90s, records in Milan and twenty years behind the camera.

Filippo Giani walking down a street at night
Photo: Fabrizio D’Aloisio
  1. Early

    Grows up on the stages of his father’s jazz band, The Old Time Ramblers. Trumpet and music theory at the Filarmonica di Lugano, and long afternoons at Kiko Berta’s K-Sound studio in Bellinzona.

  2. 1991

    His first dance record, at 16.

  3. 1992

    The Time Is Right as DJ Filo feat. Amadeus, on Fresh Music, the label that launched DJ BoBo. Released in more than 20 countries.

  4. 1995

    Moves to Milan. Around thirty records follow, with Propio Records, EMI, Sony, Universal, BMG Ariola, ZYX and others.

  5. Until 2001

    Resident DJ at Vivai, Absolut and Pit Stop in St. Moritz, with nights across Switzerland and Italy.

  6. 20 years

    TV director, photo and video producer with ibexmedia gmbh. Thousands of hours of audio and video, for television, cinema and the web.

  7. 2024

    Back in the studio. A new landscape of software, and AI as one more instrument.

  8. 2026

    The return becomes official with 35 Years In, 35 years after the first record.

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