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THE MAN
BEHIND THE DECKS.
A — biography
G iorgio Lorefice grew up in the margins of Milan — not the fashion city, not the financial city, but the third one: the one that only exists after midnight, in converted factories and forgotten warehouses three stops past the last tram. he started DJing at seventeen in a friend's basement. he hasn't stopped since.

his first residency came at nineteen — two years of weekly sets at a now-closed club in navigli. it was there he developed what people would later describe as his signature approach: no warm-up, no cool-down. sets that enter at full intensity and sustain it. a refusal to cater to arrivals or departures. the room you walked into was not the room you'd walk out of.

"the room you walked into was not the room you'd walk out of."

by his mid-twenties he was traveling. berlin first, then amsterdam, london, new york, tokyo. each city taught him something different — berlin gave him patience (six hours is not long enough), london gave him rhythm (the crowd IS the instrument), tokyo gave him silence (what you don't play is as loud as what you do).

his production work came later, and deliberately so. he didn't want to make records until he knew what he wanted to say. the first release came in 2019 — a 12" on a small berlin label that sold out in 48 hours and hasn't been repressed. scarcity is part of the art.

"scarcity is part of the art."

today he splits his time between milan and berlin, refuses to play more than three times a month, and is reportedly working on a debut album that he has been nearly finished with for two years. his booking agent describes him as the least difficult person to work with and simultaneously the most demanding. he takes that as a compliment.

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Giorgio Lorefice
[ FACT FILE ]
born milano, 1993
based milano / berlin
active since 2013
genres industrial · acid · hard techno
labels mord · soma · truncate recs
ACHIEVE
MENTS.
2025
headline — time warp
first italian headliner in the festival's 30-year history.
2024
resident — klubnacht series
berghain resident. played every second saturday for 11 months.
2023
boiler room — milan edition
500k live viewers. the set is still circulating.
2022
ra top 100 djs
entered at
2021
fabric mix series — vol. 91
sold out 2,000 copies in 6 hours.
2019
first 12" — soma recordings
sold out in 48h. never repressed by design.
RESI
DENCIES.
BERGHAIN
berlin
2022 — present
CONCRETE
paris
2021 — 2023
FABRIC
london
2021 — present
OHM
berlin
2019 — present
TRESOR
berlin
2020 — 2024
VOLT
stockholm
2023 — present
STAGES. BRANDS.
RITUALS.
ADE · BOILER ROOM · AWAKENINGS · DEKMANTEL · JUNCTION 2 · LABYRINTH · MOVEMENT · SÓNAR · TIME WARP · UNSOUND · ADE · BOILER ROOM · AWAKENINGS · DEKMANTEL · JUNCTION 2 · LABYRINTH · MOVEMENT · SÓNAR · TIME WARP · UNSOUND ·
D — press
WHAT THEY
WROTE.
RESIDENT ADVISOR

"six hours of pure architecture. lorefice doesn't play sets — he builds rooms."

— c. hayes 03.2026
MIXMAG

"the most unsettling dj we've heard all year. you leave changed."

— jo bevan 01.2026
DAZED

"industrial, acid, and something darker underneath. giorgio has no ceiling."

— c. voss 02.2026
THE QUIETUS

"four hours in and the room was still full. that doesn't happen."

— anon 11.2025
VICE MUSIC

"the heir apparent to the berghain throne. except he refuses the crown."

— m. diaz 09.2025
DJ MAG

"technically flawless. emotionally relentless. he doesn't want you comfortable."

— t. olson 06.2025
[ for press & bookers ]
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PRESS KIT.

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