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Layton Giordani

🚧 bumpy new york techno

a new yorker, still based there, and the city is the whole point of him. he found house and techno at sixteen, and a night watching Danny Tenaglia at Pacha NYC at nineteen decided the rest.

a residency at Output in brooklyn got him noticed, and Adam Beyer took him on. the Unspoken ep landed on Truesoul, then "Rivington" on Drumcode, then Where It Begins in 2017.

in august 2025 he started MADMINDS with Armada, a new york house and techno label, opening with "When It Kicks" alongside Green Velvet.

New York City is where I first discovered house and techno at 16 years old.

on launching the label, 26 august 2025

he is deliberately unbothered about how it performs.

I don't care about the success of the label. I just care about putting out sick music.

edm.com, 2 september 2025

he also turns up regularly on John Summit's Experts Only, further up this page, most recently in april 2026.

from
new york, and still there
broke through
the Unspoken ep on Truesoul, then Where It Begins on Drumcode in 2017
runs
MADMINDS, launched august 2025 with Armada
releases on
Drumcode · Truesoul · Relief · Experts Only · Insomniac · MADMINDS

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