Beatportal Introducing: Adiel

From the ballet to the floors of Berghain, April Clare Welsh tracks the rise, evolution, and musical fluidity of Italian techno virtuoso Adiel.

“It’s actually starting to become unliveable now,” says Adiel, referring to the “boiling” July heat currently scorching her hometown of Rome, where temperatures regularly surpass the 40 degree mark. This has been compounded lately by the Charon and Cerberus anticyclones that have gripped southern Europe and caused record highs. “I’ve just installed air conditioning in my bedroom as it was getting really hard to fall asleep… It’s impossible to live without it,” she adds.

It’s 8pm in Rome, and the Italian producer, DJ and label boss born Alessia Di Livio has ventured outside for the first time today to talk to Beatportal via a video call from her local park. Evening has descended on the city, and the surprisingly vivid green grass is speckled with small groups of people no doubt gathering to breathe in the slightly cooler air and relish the imminent arrival of sunset. An occasional hardy jogger slides into view as Adiel reflects on the “ghost town” that is Rome during summer.

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