Tonight in Indio, California, Matteo Milleri—the Italian-American DJ and producer better known as Anyma—debuts ÆDEN, his ambitious new audiovisual project, on Coachella’s main stage. His headlining performance, set to be reprised next Friday, marks the start of a major world tour, leaping from Shanghai to Brussels, Ibiza, London, and beyond, before concluding at Paris La Défense Arena in December. It’s all heady, exciting fare for fans of the fizzy textures and throbbing beats that define Anyma’s most beloved tracks.
Before all that, however, he joined forces with another agenda-setting global superstar, Lisa, to release the dance floor–ready single “Bad Angel” this past Wednesday. Already streamed more than six million times across Spotify and YouTube, the track arrived alongside a mind-bending video. In it, Lisa—sporting a white bodysuit and long, ashen tresses—transforms into Beatrix, an alter ego that is part human, part angel, and seemingly part android, existing in a dazzling liminal space between classical antiquity and a futuristic dystopia. (Aesthetically and conceptually, per Anyma, the world of ÆDEN reconciles the fantasy of a “digital afterlife” in which “human-uploaded intelligences and artificial intelligences try to find a point of coexistence” with the loose structure of Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia.)
Photo: Alexander Wessely
