A Night to Remember with Maurizio Etnica, The Rolling Stoned and Pleiadians at IT Athens

Etnica-Pleiadians is a project (Milan, Italy) originally formed by Carlo Paterno, Max Lanfranconi, Maurizio Begotti, and Andrea Rizzo. Max Lanfranconi was member of the 'Tribe' group and by 1988 he began organizing 'Dance all Night' parties in Italy. Encouraged by the success Max decided to start producing and around in 1992 he met Andrea Rizzo and they started to make music together. Meanwhile, around the same time Maurizio Begotti and Carlo Paterno had started making music elsewhere. In 1993 they all met in a record shop and decided to produce music together and Etnica was born. Andrea had a solid classical music background that combined with the melodies of Carlo and Maurizio's sense of arrangement would soon lead to the production of some of the most classic goa trance tracks. The band, beside producing music as Etnica, had the idea of creating a party-oriented side project and after some thoughts the name Pleiadians was forged. They had another side project, Crop Circles, that was a collaboration with another Italian band, Lotus Omega. In 1998 the band moved its studios to Ibiza where the project would be carried on by Max and Maurizio only. Since 1999 the band has changed their sound to be up to the modern standards of production, following the worldwide trends and trying to achieve a more mature sound, after successfully proving that they could realize some of the best goa trance tracks ever. Maurizio and Max are still very active in the scene and weekly performing all around the world. The Rolling Stoned project involves the homogenization of the two indissoluble and different music personalities of Kostas Pieces and Argy Echosense. In 2024, Andrei Nastasa (ZILARAY) was integrated in the project. In 2025, the three members of the Rolling Stoned are officially on the 'chariots of fire', under the roof of the 'Spiral Trax'.