BEPPE LODA
In the fashion of the great Italian DJs of the 1970s and ’80s, Beppe Loda blended music and rhythms from Africa and Europe to America and Brazil to create his special brew, a percussive-heavy sound that was dubbed Afro.
DJ Beppe Loda is describing the genre-colliding global fusion of the “Afro sound” he pioneered in the early to mid-1980s at the Typhoon club in the small town of Gambara, Brescia, Northern Italy.
“There were no rules. I would mix totally different kinds of music together—an African percussion track into a German electronic Berlin School track, or Brazilian bossa into minimal wave. It was just about being the most creative I could be, always experimenting and innovating.”
