Francesco Mingrino aka Younger Than Me, DJ and producer from Bella Italia, will never talk about his age. Why should he, when he’s forever young, living in Berlin and producing great music that’s getting played in clubs and on the radio? That’s why Mingrino doesn’t even entertain the stupid idea of explaining his stage name. Younger Than Me is a fitting name as he no longer shares the project with co-founder Marcello Carozzi. The two previously produced records for Dischi Autunno and Bordello A Parigi—but the duo went their separate ways during the pandemic, and since then Mingrino has gone solo as the ragazzo of rave.
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Mingrino also founded the 90s Wax label a few years ago. But that hasn’t given way to a flood of releases on the dance floors either recently or before. However, the few records that did come out were well received because of the combination of several things: the 90s, rave, vinyl, a love story in three acts where sentimentality somehow emerges semi-automatically from memory. The fact that they occasionally greet you from the tiled Matrix in Hasenheide and play sets using their own material is also well received by those who appreciate it.
With its somewhere-between-full-on-macho-boomboom-and-gay-groovy-nipple-twisting sound, Younger Than Me is the link between the sensitive panoramic sound of Massimiliano Pagliara and the tifosi techno of Gabber Eleganza. But this does not always have to lead to forza in fortuna. Mingrino also masters what friends of the arts pages all too fondly describe as placid tones. This may be an indication of what the Italian can do and therefore does. Anyway, Younger Than Me has recorded a mix for us with a name contrary to your condition after listening to it: Younger Than Before.
