Alto Persona

09/05/2026

Plovdiv. What a night Blank Stereo @ СИПИ (Plovdiv, BG)

A few days on and I’m still feeling this one.

Back in Bulgaria after nine years, behind the decks in my home country - and we kept it groovy.

Here's the live recording from my set - https://soundcloud.com/alto_persona/plovdiv

Deep, progressive, rolling energy, with a few cheeky remixes of some absolute classics thrown into the mix.

23 tracks. No rules. Just vibes, movement and good people.

1.Datar – B (Tarrentella & Redankas' NYSC Mix) [HOOJ CHOONS]
2.Nat Monday & Jay Welsh – Waiting (Simply City Marathon Rework) [Not on label]
3.John Creamer, Stephane K & Lance Jordan – Last Night I Was Dreaming (Adnan Senol Remix) [Fall From Grace Records]
4.Chelu Garcia & Franco Botto – Guy On Fire [Bedrock]
5.Trancesetters – Roaches (ID Remix) [Not on label]
6.Halo Varga – Future (Guy J Remix) [Lost & Found]
7.Francesca Lombardo – Wanna Dance (Birds Of Mind & Selim Sivade Remix) [Echolette Records]
8.Kadi (IL) & Yonadav – Disco Salame (Original Mix) [I AM YOU]
9.DJ Zombi & Guy Davidov – Disco Boy (Bonafique Remix) [Beat Boutique]
10.Cohn – Let's Groove On [Bo****lo A Parigi]
11.Dino Lenny & Jarvis Cocker – Magic House (Extended Mix) [Bedrock]
12.Veytik – Twilo [Movement Records]
13.Renato Cohen & Steve Parry – Marmalade Skies [Selador]
14.Guy J – Alive Again (Original Mix) [Cocoon]
15.Ross Evans – Someday (Original Mix) [Cecille]
16.Abel Meyer – Travel Future [Connections Records]
17.Change Things – Play Dice With The Universe (Extended Mix) [Asymmetric]
18.Tim Engelhardt – In Your Head (Extended Mix) [Get Physical]
19.Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Paula Tape Casa Mix) [Permanent Vacation]
20.PQM (Prince Quick Mix) – You Are Sleeping (PQM Meets Luke Chable Vocal Pass) [Yosh*toshi]
21.Nicolas Jaar – El Bandido (Matthew Sona Edit) [Not on label]
22.AIKON – To You [Innervisions]
23.Opus Klien – The Secret [RAFT]

Plovdiv - thank you. You were something else.

Blank Stereo
Elliot Moriarty
Revibe Emotions

Full nrecording from my second gig abroad in 2026. Recorded live at Bar С.И.П.И @ Plovdiv (Bulgaria) 30.08.26 Hope you enjoy it

09/03/2026

15 DAYS.

The one we’ve been waiting on.

We’re finally bringing Cortona the man behind the original Underground Sound of London to Bournemouth, joined by fellow Plastic Fantastic pioneer Luis Paris.

This one was meant to happen last November. It didn’t. So now, after months of waiting, we get to close out a seriously special summer of music with two names who helped shape the sound long before the algorithms got involved.

Isle of Wight's Erik Bruce takes the warm-up duties, laying down the foundations and setting the trajectory from the first record.

No rush. No shortcuts. Just proper music, built for the heads.

Get in early. Stay late. Follow the journey.

Final 1st Release tickets are almost gone. Prices rise next.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/42474807

See you down there.

Revibe Emotions is honoured to welcome one of the true architects of underground dance music culture - Enzo Amico (Cortona).

09/01/2026

🇧🇬 Bulgaria (((home))) — 9 YEARS LATER

I went back home to play a gig.

At least, that was the plan 😃

What I didn’t expect was just how much those three days would mean.

Nine years away. No idea what to expect. What followed was food, music, family, friendships, nostalgia, culture, ridiculous amounts of emotion - and coming home completely recharged.

From electronic music lessons with Sir John Digweed at Shake That Hill, to returning to my roots in Burgas, seeing my grandmother and standing in the bedroom where I grew up.
Yeah… nostalgia hit HARD.

Then came the seafood. Fresh, ridiculous seafood from my favourite place — the one I’d been craving for almost a decade.

And yes… I broke my alcohol ban.
Some outrageous quince and apricot Rakias.
Come on. I’m Balkan. It had to be done. Hahaha.

Then Plovdiv completely took my breath away. History, architecture, culture — one of those places that makes you wonder why you stayed away so long.

But the real highlight was the people at the gig.

Not random faces. People I’d spent YEARS communicating with digitally, many of whom I originally met through our shared obsession with gaming. Online connections that somehow became genuine friendships.

And suddenly, there they were.

Some travelling from different corners of Bulgaria and Europe just to support me.

UBS family - you are all absolute legends. Thank you!

Seeing my mum, her partner and my sister dancing to my music is something I’ll carry with me forever.

Sharing the trip with the phenomenal human being, DJ and producer Elliot Moriarty made it even more special. Travelling together, exploring Plovdiv and introducing him to our culture — absolute pleasure.

And then there’s the biggest, fattest thank you of all.

Ivo. My teacher, mentor and maestro.

You didn’t just make a gig happen.

You made this trip home possible.

After nine years, I came back to my roots, saw my family, reconnected with old memories, made new ones, ate like a king, drank rakia like a proper Balkan idiot, played some music and left Bulgaria with a very full heart.

Thank you, maestro.

Bulgaria…

It was good to be home.❤️

08/30/2026

BONDING SOUND - SEPTEMBER | PRINZEL & MØNTY — LIVE B2B

https://soundcloud.com/alto_persona/bonding-sound-24-phazon-sco (link in bio for IG users)

This month Bonding Sound heads north into the Glasgow underground with two selectors quietly building something very interesting around the deeper, darker side of progressive music: PRINZEL & MØNTY.

Both Glasgow-based and deeply connected to the PHAZON movement, their sound moves through deep, tribal, hypnotic and progressive territory, with a serious respect for the history behind it.

Peter Prinzel has been steadily carving his path through Scotland’s underground, from Sneaky Pete’s and Passenger’s Adventures in Aviemore to La Cheetah, where he joined MØNTY for the first PHAZON editions. His trajectory continues to rise, with an upcoming appearance at SWG3 alongside Sasha.

MØNTY has been developing his own tribal-inflected sound across Glasgow and beyond, including an international debut at SASS Music Club in Vienna. His production story is also taking shape through PHAZON, with the KANSA EP exploring deep house, progressive, tribal and techno.

At the centre of it all is PHAZON - a Glasgow project inspired by the deeper, darker spirit of the legendary Twilo era. Not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, but a modern interpretation of that philosophy: long blends, hypnotic grooves, tension, progression and proper sound-system music.

After sharing the PHAZON journey across its first editions, August saw Prinzel & MØNTY step into their first extended B2B at PHAZON 003: INSECT.

And now that journey lands on Bonding Sound.

Recorded live. B2B. Two selectors listening, reacting, exchanging records and building the journey in real time.

No formula. No shortcuts. Just music.

Deep grooves. Tribal movement. Progressive tension. Darkness, atmosphere and plenty of space to get lost in.

Scotland has always had a serious relationship with progressive music. Prinzel & MØNTY represent another chapter - respecting the roots while pushing the sound forward in their own way.

PRINZEL & MØNTY - LIVE B2B.
Recorded live.

For the heads. Listen closely.

08/13/2026

Aurality - AUGUST 2026

The timing couldn't really be better.
I’ve just returned from 1 week of The Garden Tisno, aka Prog Heaven - Balance Festival - with a head full of music, a hard drive full of memories and, somehow, both legs functioning exactly as they should.

60K+ steps a day. All from dancing....Honestly, the best cardio workout known to man😄

Four days of sound, movement, people, conversations, connections and those little exchanges of energy that make electronic music what it is. I came back properly recharged - and this month’s Aurality feels like the perfect place to channel some of it.

The episode was recorded a few weeks ago, but the architecture was already there: the Balance ethos, that constant movement between progressive, melodic, deeper and more adventurous territory. It moves up and down, left and right, builds, releases, disappears into the shadows and eventually comes back down for a more emotional landing.

The final two tracks carry an additional weight.

They come from the exceptional producer - Nico Stojan - whose passing happened around the time of recording.
His music has been championed by some of the biggest names in the game for many years, and closing the journey with two pieces of his work felt like the only way to do it.

There’s also a particularly strong Global Underground thread running through this episode — four releases from the label’s recent catalogue, each offering another indication of where progressive and melodic house continues to evolve.

More detail. More layering. More movement. Less interest in simply following the obvious path.

And that’s really what Aurality is about.

26 selections. No filler. No genre box. Just music that belongs together.

Full respect to every artist and label involved in making this journey possible.
Tracklist:

Fideksen – Unbreakable Promise (Original Mix) [Friday Island]
MULYA – Parasoul [Complaint Kulture]
Catalyst – Seahorse (Original Mix) [Platipus Music]
Piola – Yara (Original Mix)
Gorge – Loophole (Extended Mix) [Global Underground]
Davi – It Disappeared Among The Trees [Bedrock]
Civa – Do You Believe [Hoomidaas]
Nick Warren & Nicolas Rada – Fuego (Extended Mix) [Global Underground]
C-Jay & Magitman – Velatus [Movement Recordings]
Neftali Blasko – Run Like Hell [Undergroove Music]
Guy J – Rise [Global Underground]
Redspace & 4T6 – Gateway [Nightcolours Recordings]
Helsloot – Fledermaus (Extended Mix) [Global Underground]
Slum 159 – Neverland (Original Mix) [NEIN RECORDS]
Gal Shimol – Turning Around (Extended Mix) [Kinetika Music]
Numen (PA) – Do You Want This? (Extended Mix) [Marginalia]
Made In TLV – Wake Up (Original Mix) [Descending Order]
David Podhel – Polaris [Undergroove Music]
Damian M(AR) – Climborspheres (Original Mix) [Fractal Noise Records]
Radondo & Madd Rod – Final Shift [Bandcamp]
Union Jack – Cactus (Jonno-Brien Remix) [Platipus]
Ian O'Donovan – Astral Interference [Bedrock]
Engelbert & Mike Kohl – Optimism (Yves Eaux Remix) (Extended) [3RD Act]
Triumph – Discover feat. Valldeneu (Ian O'Donovan Remix) [Rebirth Records]
DOP – Summer Ends (Acid Pauli & Nico Stojan Remix) [DOP Only]
Nico Stojan – Sin Fin [URSL Records]

Grab something cold. Put the headphones on. Turn the outside world down.

Then come and get lost in it.

Aurality - tonight, 7PM UK time / exclusively on https://frisky.fm/mix/73645 (link in bio for IG users)

07/26/2026

BONDING SOUND #23

https://soundcloud.com/alto_persona/bonding-sound-23-alto-persona (link in bio for IG users)

The countdown to Tisno is officially on.

In just a few days, I’ll be heading back to Balance Festival for my second year running - and I’m already mentally somewhere between the Adriatic, the dancefloor and whatever happens after the sun goes down 😄

Balance is one of those places you don’t just attend.

You make the pilgrimage.

The music. The location. The people. The atmosphere. That completely unhinged feeling of being surrounded by thousands of people who have all travelled to the same place for exactly the same reason: to lose themselves in the music for a few days.

So, while counting down to my return to the mecca of progressive and melodic house, I’ve put together this month's Bonding Sound.

One hour of deep, melodic, progressive, hypnotic and groovy sounds - a little preview of the headspace I'm currently in and the kind of sounds I'll be chasing once I hit Tisno.

1.ALPHA21 - Where Silence Took Me (Framewerk Poolside Mix) [ProBtech]
2.ALPHA21 - Where Silence Took Me (2Reels Chris Grim Remix) [ProBtech]
3.Facu Navas - Groovy Friends (Original Mix) [Hoomidaas]
4.QuiQui - Cloud Sculptures [Movement Limited]
5.MULYA - Parasoul [Complaint Kulture]
6.D-Nox & Andre Moret - Breath [Balance]
7.André Moret - Gaxyda [Sudbeat]
8.Veytik - Twilo [Movement Limited]
9.Mike Rish - R33 [Balance]
10.Dan Ferritto & Alan Prosser - All in One Night (Original Mix) [Pangea Recordings]
11.Chelakhov - Kopa [Magnitude Recordings] *unreleased
12.MOSHIC - No Milk in the Fridge [Contrast Records] *unreleased

Headphones on.
Cold drink in hand.
Volume up.
See you in Tisno 💓