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“It’s About Real Energy”: Mathame on No-Phones, “MEET ME” and Their NYC & LA Takeovers
Mathame opens up to LOOP Mag about their new single ‘MEET ME,’ surprise NYC and LA shows, and the global no-phones nightlife trend shaping immersive club experiences.
- By: Julianne Elise Beffa
Mathame’s latest single “MEET ME” feels like a signal flare from the future and the past all at once. The Italian brother duo Amedeo and Matteo Giovanelli are closing out 2025 on their own terms with a track that fuses cinematic emotion, hypnotic rhythm, and the precision of technology into something they call EmoTech- a new language for the dance floor.
“MEET ME” officially lands November 7, the same night Mathame takes over 53 Scott Avenue in Brooklyn for the first of two surprise, no-phone, all-night shows. The next night they’ll do it again at Sound Los Angeles. Both events are designed to pull fans back into something real: a night built on energy, emotion, and pure connection. “We wanted to go back to the essence, connection, closeness, presence,” the brothers tell LOOP Mag in an exclusive interview. “These shows are not about scale or spectacle but about sharing energy in its purest form.”
The song itself was born from a spark. An early demo from collaborators Son of Son and Jonos instantly caught the duo’s attention for its balance of drama and catchiness. “It was love at first sight,” they say. “We wanted to preserve that cinematic tension while giving it a futuristic edge, almost like the soundtrack to an anime.” The final result is a hypnotic blend of pulsing synths, chant-like vocals, and a beat that feels both massive and intimate. It’s the kind of track that belongs just as much at a sunrise set in Ibiza as it does on a dark dance floor in Brooklyn.
Before its release, “MEET ME” had already made its way across continents, lighting up the Mainstage at Creamfields Argentina when Mathame dropped it live and echoing through the Great Pyramids of Egypt during Anyma’s monumental performance. “When thousands of people resonate with something that once existed only in your studio,” they say, “it feels like the emotion itself becomes alive, amplified, multiplied, reflected back at you.”
That deep sense of emotional storytelling sits at the core of what they’ve built with EmoTech, a sound that they describe as both science and soul. “It starts with an extreme, almost exhausting pursuit of perfection in sound detail,” they explain. “That’s the Tech. But the Emo is what makes us different: an equally relentless search for deep emotion, the kind that moves you and stays with you.”
The brothers have long blurred the line between art forms, blending cinematic concepts, technology, and human feeling into one world. Their debut album MEMO introduced NEO, a mythic narrative project that expanded into NEOLOGY, an anime-inspired film that plays during their live sets. Every track, every performance, feels like a chapter in an unfolding story. “We think of our tracks as parts of a larger picture,” they tease. “One day, everyone will understand how the pieces connect.”
That love of storytelling extends to their visual approach. Every Mathame show is crafted like a scene from an immersive movie- sound, light, and emotion choreographed into one living experience. Yet for their Brooklyn and Los Angeles events, they’re stripping everything back. “It’s liberating,” they say. “Without the layers of production, you face the crowd with nothing but sound and emotion. It becomes raw, human, almost spiritual.”
We think of our tracks as parts of a larger picture. One day, everyone will understand how the pieces connect.
These shows are also part of a growing movement in nightlife: the return of mystery. Both “MEET ME” events will be phone-free, part of a cultural shift that’s sweeping the club world as venues from Berlin to New York ban cameras and invite people to actually be present. For Mathame, that choice is deeply intentional. “We crave real human connection,” they say. “Some experiences should live only in memory, not on a screen.”
They believe removing the constant documentation of nightlife creates space for imagination again, for something sacred to happen. “Mystery is essential to emotion,” they add. “When you take away the phones, you make room for magic.” That raw connection with the crowd is what keeps them inspired. “That feeling is what we depend on,” they say. “It’s almost intoxicating in the best possible way.”
While they’ve performed on the biggest festival stages in the world- from Coachella to Tomorrowland- the brothers say there’s something special about scaling down. “We’ve done the massive, high-tech shows, but there’s nothing like being face to face with the crowd, feeding off the same pulse,” they explain. “It’s a return to why we started making music in the first place.”
When you take away the phones, you make room for magic.
The duo’s creative world has always lived at the edge of technology, experimenting with AI, 3D visuals, and immersive storytelling. Their project Old Neural Mixtape Vol. 1 even used Apple’s M1 chip to reimagine DJ mixing as an AI-powered art form. With “MEET ME,” they’ve brought that same innovation into songwriting itself, using futuristic tools not to replace emotion, but to enhance it. “We hope for technology to serve emotion, not replace it,” they say. “That’s what EmoTech means on a deeper level—it’s both an aesthetic and an ethic. Our mission is simple: to make people’s lives a little better.”
“MEET ME” is a perfect example of that philosophy in action. It’s designed to move both body and heart, its melodies engineered to feel like memories, its rhythm built to mimic a heartbeat. “We hope people feel the power of a psychedelic flower blooming inside their veins,” they say with a smile.
If that sounds poetic, it’s because for Mathame, club music has always been a form of modern mythology- a way to connect people through shared feeling, light, and sound. As the brothers prepare to kick off their coast-to-coast weekend of surprise shows, they’re less interested in spectacle and more excited about what happens when people truly show up. “It’s about energy,” they say simply. “Real energy.”
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