Curses presents Tutto Vetro releases EP ‘Trust The Beat’ on Wrong Era
Curses (Photo by Christophe Mauberqué)
Here’s a release that escaped our attention, but the lead track is a real club banger! Berlin-based producer Luca Venezia, known as Curses, steps out under his Tutto Vetro alias with the 4-track EP “Trust The Beat“, released via Wrong Era, the club-focused sublabel of Slow Motion Records. The new EP is out now as a 12” vinyl release.
The record fuses post-EBM, trance, Detroit techno and progressive club elements, using the Tutto Vetro project to zoom in on late ’80s and early ’90s underground club sounds from Valencia, Frankfurt and New York while keeping the focus firmly on present-day dancefloors.
“Trust The Beat” is already the second release under the Tutto Vetro name, following the January 2024 EP “No Mercy (Megabreaks III)” on Oráculo’s Megabreakz series, which paid explicit homage to late-’80s Valencia through breakbeat- and electro-driven tracks.
The EP runs just over 16 minutes keeps the same four-track sequence across formats: “Trust The Beat”, “Wild Things”, “Wild Things (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)” and “New Revolution”.
Included as well is Fabrizio Mammarella’s remix of “Wild Things” on the B-side. The Wrong Era label co-founder adds his trademark emphasis on drum programming and bass pressure.
About Curses
This is the main project of Italo-American artist Luca Venezia, who was born in New York City and has been based in Berlin for around a decade. He describes his work as rooted in the “dark romantic” side of post-punk and electronic body music, combining love songs and club tracks while drawing on formative experiences split between New York and Sicily.
Venezia moved from New York to Berlin in 2015, a relocation that coincided with the formal launch of the Curses alias and a decisive shift away from the earlier Drop The Lime moniker associated with Miami bass and breaks. Under Curses, he has developed a catalogue that blends new wave, post-punk, EBM, new beat and Italo disco, often incorporating live guitars and vocals into otherwise club-oriented arrangements.
His debut Curses album “Romantic Fiction” appeared in October 2018 on Jennifer Cardini’s Dischi Autunno label, establishing a template that combined guitar-led song structures with moody electronics and launching a live configuration of the project as a duo. A second album, “Incarnadine”, followed on the same imprint in 2022. In parallel, Venezia curated the “Next Wave Acid Punx” compilation for Eskimo Recordings, a 38-track overview of dark disco, new beat, early EBM and related strains that mapped the influences feeding into his own productions.
Curses’ relationship with Slow Motion Records and Wrong Era started earlier, with the “So Strange” EP (WE008) released on Wrong Era in 2018, marking the beginning of a long-term link between the artist and the label’s wave- and Italo-focused output.
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