Davide Luzi, also known as Luzee<\/strong>, is a name relatively new to the Italian beat-making scene. With Afro Sketches<\/a><\/em>, released on cassette via Ragoo Records<\/a><\/strong>, Luzee builds a quiet but radical bridge between distant worlds. African and South American field recordings, analogue machines, boom-bap discipline and independent beat culture converge into a process that feels closer to sonic archaeology than to production in the conventional sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Old recordings are not sampled for effect, but studied, respected, and carefully reactivated\u2014reassembled into beats that retain their weight, their imperfections, their human density.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The choice of tools matters here. Digital waves meet analogue workflows: not nostalgia, but method. It becomes a way to slow down, to stay physically connected to sound, to resist the frictionless logic of platforms and endless streaming. In Luzee\u2019s practice, listening is not passive consumption: it\u2019s commitment, repetition, and attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This interview traces the roots of Afro Sketches<\/em> and the thinking behind it: the synthesis of cultures that never fully disappeared, the ethics of working with inherited sound, the role of instinct in creation, and the quiet refusal of neoliberal music economies that flatten everything into metrics.
Musician, polyinstrumentalist, and avid digger, his work sits where listening is still an active practice, where sound carries memory, and rhythm is approached as a form of research rather than decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What emerges is a portrait of an independent beatmaker operating in the underground not as a pose, but as a position, where resistance takes the form of coherence, autonomy, and care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n