If electronic music could take a vacation, Tropical Freak would be the soundtrack — sun-drenched, trippy, and designed to pull you straight into a world where analog synths breathe like living creatures and every beat feels like warm air hitting your skin.
Gaiatech — the visionary project led by Italian producer and sound designer Simone Mecozzi — has officially dropped one of his boldest releases yet. Produced at GTM Studio Recording, the EP seamlessly blends melodic techno, progressive energy, psychedelic touches, and tech-house grooves, all while maintaining a rhythmic pulse that feels unmistakably… tropical. It’s the kind of project that doesn’t just want you to listen — it wants you to feel, move, reflect, and maybe even lose track of where you are for a minute.
Tropical Freak didn’t happen overnight. It blossomed from a massive archive of melodies, basslines, and vocal fragments that Mecozzi revisited during moments of balance with family and nature. The project took two years to form fully, shaped partly in Rome and partly during a secluded creative retreat in Sardinia — far from city noise, deep in nature, and right at the center of Mecozzi’s artistic truth.
The production leans heavily into analog synths, layered textures, and rich 4/4 grooves, while the processed female vocals — gated, reversed, re-synthesized — create rhythmic patterns that blur the line between human breath and machine pulse. The result? A sound that manages to be both organic and futuristic, grounding and transportive.
Across its five tracks, Tropical Freak captures twenty years of experimentation and evolution. Psychedelic edges, hypnotic rhythms, and a vivid electronic heartbeat carry the EP forward. The title track sums it all up perfectly — Gaiatech’s philosophy in motion: freedom through rhythm, spirit set loose through sound. It feels like a love letter to open-air raves, natural landscapes, and the universal language that lives on every dance floor.
Gaiatech himself says it best: “This record is my way of saying that music is still the most powerful form of travel. It takes you somewhere else — no passport required.”
With influences ranging from Daft Punk and Aphex Twin to Shpongle, Jaia, and Thievery Corporation, Mecozzi brings decades of sonic exploration into a project that feels timeless yet constantly evolving. Starting as a rock guitarist and drummer before diving into the underground electronic world of the late ’90s, he’s spent over twenty years shaping the Gaiatech identity — a space where analog warmth meets futuristic energy.
Tropical Freak isn’t just an EP. It’s a reminder that electronic music can still feel alive
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