Marco Erroi

Drawing inspiration from the past to interpret the present and study the future is the philosophy of Southern Italian DJ and producer Marco Erroi, the name behind such projects as Common Series, XXXV Gold Fingers, XXXV Edits and Erroi. Born in 1980, he graduated in aerospace engineering from La Sapienza university in Rome, later specializing in sound and acoustic engineering. Since 2012, he has been a certified competent technician (TCA) and acoustic designer.  Varied yet vital to the electronic scene, this vinyl-addicted DJ is the co-founder and resident DJ of Squat Party, an itinerary underground party born in Salento in 2010 alongside DJ Vivaz - which plays out in various secret locations in the local region. In 2013, he founded his first label in Rome - Common Series Ltd - focused on vinyl and distributed by the Dutch powerhouse Clone, which only puts out his own music. In 2017, he released Common Series 05 (TIRANË) feat. Edmond Lila (an Albanian tenor), a world music record with electronic influences that was highly praised by Gilles Peterson and entered heavy rotation on BBC 6 Music.  2018 marked the release of his first two albums: Logica Aggregazione - under his XXXV Gold Fingers alias - and Common Series 07 (LAS CANCHAS). The latter caught the attention of several national and international magazines (including Republica's XL) and was ranked among the top 10 records of the week in the UK alongside Thom Yorke's Suspiria. In 2019, he launched the XXXV Edits project, a series of limited-edition, vinyl-only dancefloor re-edits exploring funk, soul, and jazz for clubs and DJs. Among these, his tribute to Irakere - the legendary Cuban band founded by Chucho Valdés in the 70s - was a major success. The 13-track double vinyl once again caught the attention of Gilles Peterson and was featured in a dedicated podcast on Worldwide FM.  2022 saw the launch of Spaghetti a Mezzanotte, a dubplate series featuring re-edits, remixes, and reworks of obscure Italian music tracks. The fifth release, Lucio a Mezzanotte, became a highly acclaimed unofficial tribute to Lucio Dalla.  In 2023, alongside Max Nocco, he founded Dischi Spranti, an independent record label dedicated to the Puglia electronic music scene. Rooted deeply in the local territory, the project already counts three vinyl releases. Erroi learned the art of DJing in Puglia during the mid-90s and consolidated his style in Rome in the early 2000s, collaborating with the Blueroom collective at Rialto Santambrogio. In 2019, he joins the Clone family in Rotterdam, performing for the Clone Monday Stream. He is a regular fixture at festivals such as Fuck Normality Festival, SEI Festival, SeeYouSound, Locomotive Jazz Festival, etc. His live experiences includes unique soundtracking and ambient projects: in 2018, he soundtracked the dawn at the Festa di Cinema Del Reale; in 2020, he performed a live ambient set inside the Torre Guaceto marine nature reserve for Contempo Festival; in 2021, during the "Feelm" artistic residency by SEI Festival, he co-created a live soundtrack for early cinema films by the Lumière brothers and Thomas Edison alongside other musicians - Valentina Magaletti, Francesco Farfa, Donato Epiro, etc. In 2022, he brought his #AmbientSession live performance to SeeYouSound Festival, turning turntables into actual musical instruments through rotation speed variations, dynamic distortion, and filtering. His music is a blend of the organic and the synthetic, where the boundaries between the natural and the artificial are constantly reinvented, much like a Dantean journey into the fantastic realm of reality. His works is distinguish for the use of field-recordings, guitars, vocals, hand-tambourines and synthesizers that make for earthly electronic music - both cerebral and viscera. Open to a wide variety of influences absorbed over his thirty years in the field, Erroi’s dj-sets deliver hypnotic underground sounds overlapping house, techno, acid, funk, afro, and ambient grooves with a distinct old-school aftertaste.