Luca Pretolesi

Luca Pretolesi (* before 1980 in Genoa ) is an Italian musician , record producer , DJ and sound engineer . He celebrated chart successes especially in the 1990s with his techno project Digital Boy .

Life

Pretolesi moved to Milan at the age of 16 , where he completed a three-year training as a sound engineer at a music school. After graduating from school, he began producing his own pieces of music in the late 1980s. From 1990 the first singles appeared under various project names. He was best known for the Digital Boy project . In 1991 his first album Futuristics was released . With the single The Mountain of King , which Pretolesi had written together with Ronnie Lee , he was able to reach number one in the Italian single charts in 1994 . In 1994 he founded his own label D-Boy Records . Numerous other publications appeared by the early 2000s.

In 2002 Pretolesi moved to Las Vegas and increasingly turned to sound engineering. He mixed pieces of music for artists and projects like Steve Aoki , Diplo , Major Lazer , Jack Ü , Lil Jon , Gareth Emery , Snoop Lion and Skrillex .

In 2013 he opened his studio called Digital Music Innovation (Studio DMI) in the Wynn / Encore Las Vegas hotel complex .

Discography (selection)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

This Is Mutha F ** ker!   IT 17th 09/1992 (7 weeks) 1-2-3 acid   IT 8th 19/1992 (16 weeks) Crossover   IT 18th 27/1993 (10 weeks) The Mountain of King   IT 1 40/1994 (16 weeks) Exterminate   IT 9 25/1995 (4 weeks)

Albums

• 1991: Digital Boy - Futuristics (Flying Records)
• 1991: Digital Boy - Technologiko (Flying Records)
• 1995: Digital Boy - Ten Steps to the Rise (D-Boy Records)

Singles and EPs

• 1990: S 900 / S 950 - La Bestia (Bring It On Down) (Demo Studio)
• 1990: Luca P. - Electric Live (Demo Studio)
• 1990: Digital Boys featuring Cool De Suck - Techno (Dance to the House) (Demo Studio)
• 1990: Digital Boy - Gimme a Fat Beat (Remix) / Kokko (Music Man Records)
• 1990: Oi Sonik - Just Let Your Body Ride (Music Man Records)
• 1991: The Voice of Rave - The Voice of Rave (UMM)
• 1991: Digital Boy - OK! Alright (Flying Records)
• 1991: Digital Boy - 1-2-3 Acid! (Flying Records)
• 1991: Digital Boy - This Is Mutha F ** ker! (Flying Records)
• 1991: Digital Boy - Gimme a Fat Beat (Flying Records)
• 1991: Digital Boy - Futuristic EP (Flying Records)
• 1993: Digital Boy - Crossover (Flying Records)
• 1994: Digital Boy with Asia - The Mountain of King (D-Boy Records)
• 1994: Digital Boy - Dig It All Beat (Flying Records)
• 1995: Digital Boy - Exterminate / Direct to Rave (D-Boy Records)
• 1996: Asia + Digital B - Let's Live (Electronics Music)
• 1996: Digital Boy - Back to the Past Vol. 1 (Italian Steel)
• 1997: The Dark Side - Beats & Riffs 1 (Italian Steel)
• 1997: Digital Boy - Back to the Past Vol. 2 (Italian Steel)
• 1997: Digital Boy - Back to the Past Vol. 3 (Italian Steel)
• 2000: Digital Boy and MC Rage - Akkur (D-Boy Black Label)
• 2001: The Masochist & Digital Boy - Shout Out (D-Boy Black Label)
• 2001: DJ JDA & Digital Boy feat. MC Rage - Hardcore for Life (ADN Hardcore)
• 2002: MC Rage with Digital Boy & DJ Bike - September Forever (D-Boy Black Label)
• 2003: Digital Boy vs. Outblast - Be 4 Real EP (Masters of Hardcore)
• 2003: Digital Boy - Really Vulgar (D-Boy Black Label)
• 2004: Digital Boy & MC Rage - Sugar Daddy (D-Boy Black Label)
• 2008: Digital Boy & Shane Thomas - Sexy, Sultry, Delicious, Dirty (Melodica)

Web links

• Luca Pretolesi at studiodmi.com (English)
• Luca Pretolesi at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sound engineer Luca Pretolesi and Studio DMI . In: gikacoustics.com, accessed March 27, 2017
2. ^ ^{A b} Psychology of a Mix Engineer: An Interview With Luca Pretolesi . In: modernmixing.com from April 6, 2015
3. ↑ Andrea Domanick: Q + A: Las Vegas at the Grammys: Meet the local mix master behind Snoop, Aoki and more . In: Las Vegas Sun of January 26, 2014
4. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on March 28, 2017 (Italian, paid subscription access).