PEEV / Pierre Serafini
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About PEEV / Pierre Serafini
As PEEV, Pierre Serafini has been a name with many faces over the past 20 years. He’s a musician, a curator, a DJ and above all, a consummate music lover. As Opti, he ran Airflex Labs, and ushered bass music into Lyon via his Haste Residency at Transbordeur. Then Paris found him on managerial team of renowned French music magazine Trax, and also long time resident resident of Rinse.FR. But the past few years have seen Pierre step away from the limelight: a prolonged sabbatical for him to re-focus and replenish himself as a producer. The calm of Lyon allowed him to build a stronger bond with his studio and instruments, allowing him to improve not only his already undebatable production skills, but also his expressivity as a musician and composer. For those who’ve been paying attention, Pierre has always been about more than the Bass Music and Club scenes that have been framing his debuts. Over 5 years of his monthly Rinse.FR show, he’s sought out guests from the known (Jay Glass Dubs, Subtext’s James Ginzburg or Mondkopf) to the then-unknown (KMRU, Marylou, Neinzer), exploring new frequencies and aesthetics with each carefully chosen collaboration, quickly becoming the voice of Ambient and Experimental sounds on Rinse France. His latest releases, the emotive “Ad Astra (Per Ardua)”, a plaintive, piano-led ambient ballad, included on the NoSuit Records artist benefit compilation in May, or the incredibly tense and emotional "Snakes & Ladders" on Music for Commercials, are just facets of PEEV’s identity, as a slate of releases for 2021 shows. With his friend Nuit, he’s started a long-term exploration of the grimier, sludgier possibilities of low end noise, and a forthcoming collaborative EP with rising French producer Realitycheck feels like a throwback to the shattered, rolling basslines of his previous works. Whatever Pierre is working on, there’s both new sense of energy and a feel of spaciousness and depth: a reflection of a slower lifestyle, accompanied by a more considered and almost re-assuring approach to music will definitely pave the way for his most exciting works to date. Phil Bloomfield
As PEEV, Pierre Serafini has been a name with many faces over the past 20 years. He’s a musician, a curator, a DJ and above all, a consummate music lover. As Opti, he ran Airflex Labs, and ushered bass music into Lyon via his Haste Residency at Transbordeur. Then Paris found him on managerial team of renowned French music magazine Trax, and also long time resident resident of Rinse.FR. But the past few years have seen Pierre step away from the limelight: a prolonged sabbatical for him to re-focus and replenish himself as a producer. The calm of Lyon allowed him to build a stronger bond with his studio and instruments, allowing him to improve not only his already undebatable production skills, but also his expressivity as a musician and composer. For those who’ve been paying attention, Pierre has always been about more than the Bass Music and Club scenes that have been framing his debuts. Over 5 years of his monthly Rinse.FR show, he’s sought out guests from the known (Jay Glass Dubs, Subtext’s James Ginzburg or Mondkopf) to the then-unknown (KMRU, Marylou, Neinzer), exploring new frequencies and aesthetics with each carefully chosen collaboration, quickly becoming the voice of Ambient and Experimental sounds on Rinse France. His latest releases, the emotive “Ad Astra (Per Ardua)”, a plaintive, piano-led ambient ballad, included on the NoSuit Records artist benefit compilation in May, or the incredibly tense and emotional "Snakes & Ladders" on Music for Commercials, are just facets of PEEV’s identity, as a slate of releases for 2021 shows. With his friend Nuit, he’s started a long-term exploration of the grimier, sludgier possibilities of low end noise, and a forthcoming collaborative EP with rising French producer Realitycheck feels like a throwback to the shattered, rolling basslines of his previous works. Whatever Pierre is working on, there’s both new sense of energy and a feel of spaciousness and depth: a reflection of a slower lifestyle, accompanied by a more considered and almost re-assuring approach to music will definitely pave the way for his most exciting works to date. Phil Bloomfield