- "I always find inspiration from my city." The DJ and producer talks about her love of Naples, moving from the underground to the mainstream and her new audiovisual show.
- If you've ever gone to big-room techno hubs like Time Warp, DC-10 and Awakenings, then Anfisa Letyago should be familiar to you. But the Naples-based DJ and producer actually comes from underground roots: before she played to thousands of people in Ibiza, she was releasing on legacy labels like Hotflush, Nervous Records and Rekids, and collaborating with old-guard legends like DJ Pierre.
In this RA Exchange, Letyago talks about the strategy she employed to make it to the top. Having become enamoured with Carl Cox during her first days of raving in Naples as a university student, she flew to one of his gigs and stood outside his hotel with her tracks on a USB. She was delighted when he took them and played them in his set that night. Shortly thereafter, Cox booked Letyago to play his curated stage at Ultra Music Festival and has since acted as a close mentor, teacher and friend.
Today, Letyago is preparing a live audiovisual show, Partenope, which straddles the boundary of techno and vocal-led pop. She also started her own label, NSDA—an homage to a volcanic island near Naples—and is preparing her first album to be released on a sub-label of Sony Music. She also reveals some facts that fans may not know about her despite the intimate moments from her life she shares online. Listen to the episode in full.