Saturday, February 17th, the top Italian disco legend Beppe Loda swept into town on his Typhoon of deeply sought-after musical mastery, landing straight into the graces of The Basement wheels.

There are very few living DJs who carry the singular weight and lineage of this Italodisco trendsetter. Beppe Loda was one such man. Emerging from the fertile dance culture of Milan by way of Manerbio, he had long pioneered a genre-bending approach to DJing — weaving proto-industrial and minimalism into Afrobeat, deep-space disco, sideways new-wave, and krautrock. As a resident of the legendary Typhoon Club in the 1980s, and through his coveted mixtapes, Beppe directly shaped generations of DJs, influencing countless selectors across the global dance continuum.

His appearance at The Basement became nothing short of a rare and radiant alignment. Inside the intimate, labyrinthine corners of our sound system, his selections unfurled with a mystique that felt impossible to duplicate — a living document of dance-floor history, delivered by the hands that helped write it.

Those who arrived early felt the room shift as he took the decks. By the time the night reached full capacity, we were already deep inside the current of his Typhoon — carried by his mastery, anchored by his presence, and swept into a dance that felt both ancestral and new.

With all our love and gratitude, we look back on this night as a truly herstoric chapter in The Basement’s story — one we will remember for years to come.