Mr. Rachele
Walking into the space entitled “Hardware Life”, everywhere you look, there are tangles of cables, buttons, knobs and sockets all around. Lights flicker on and off, colourful, like a dance of light, changing the complexion of the being in the centre of the room. A small display omits light onto its face, deep in concentration, eyes wide and full of awe. What is it we see? Mr. Rachele, late at night, turning, twisting, plugging, inventing and creating sounds, twisting the bass, splashing the highs and taming the frequency spectrum. What is it he is making. A wall of sound? A wall not to trap, but a wall to break through consciousness itself, correcting the path of the human race, re-aligning it towards the evolution of time and themselves.
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Name: Mr. Rachele
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Bio: Mr. Rachele is a live electronic music artist who embraces a truly improvisational approach with his hardware. His techno has a melodic driving quality informed by his modular synth and elektron box manipulations, all purely techno. Think of a luxury 1990s Euro-techno meal served with lashings of futuristic textures and rhythms, and you might be close! His soundscapes envelope you in a time long forgotten, and a dystopian future yet to untold. All his music in and out of the studio is based upon his love of improvised live jamming on modular synthesizers, hardware drum machines, samplers, and hard-wired synthesizers.
Mr. Rachele is a prominent member of the modular synth community in Melbourne. Having started Modular Theme Time back in 2019, it has now become an integral part of the modular synth community, not only here in Melbourne but reaching around Australia and New Zealand, with artists globally joining the community. Since 2019 Modular Theme Time has produced 22 albums, bringing over 100 modular synth artists together to create music in collaborative environments.
This year he has started hosting a new radio show on Area 3000.radio aptly named Hardware Road, where he interviews live electronic performers and producers, bringing Naarms hardware artists out from the studios and into the spotlight.
Hardware Road will also be the place for a new Synth Meetup in Melbourne from August.
And in the light of bringing live hardware to the forefront of electronic music, he has joined the 150 BPM crew, helping produce and stage manage the 150%Live events, where it’s all hardware acts, all day!
On top of all this he has lent a helping hand in the all-modular synth event aptly named Modular People, which is growing from a small gallery into a small bar, and looks to be one place the modular artists of Melbourne can come express their many talents in any style of music.