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“HARMONIC WAVE” — when not everything has to be a fight

Electronic · House Italy Producer · Stefano

He stopped making music for years — but he never stopped listening. When he started again at the end of 2025, he realised the creativity hadn’t just arrived: it had been there the whole time, waiting for a medium. ORBYT is the centre he built for it, and three of its tracks are now in rotation here.

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The artist

Some of his earliest memories are tied to music: listening in the car with his family, exploring his father’s CD collection at home. At sixteen, he asked for his first CDJ.What followed was a long period in which he wasn’t making music himself, but listening never left his life. Years later, that accumulated curiosity, attention and instinct gradually found their way into his own work.ORBYT grew from that transition — from a lifelong relationship with music into the decision to finally create it.

Before the name

The years that were training, without knowing it

Outside music he describes himself as curious first: someone who adapts to almost any situation, and who becomes extremely stubborn the moment he actually cares. If he decides to understand something, build something or reach something, leaving it unfinished is not really an option.

He is also more of a dreamer than people would guess. He can take something very small — an object, a conversation, a thought that arrives out of nowhere — and start imagining what it could become. That part of him existed long before ORBYT. Music simply gave it somewhere to go.

He recorded nothing for years. But he kept discovering music, kept building playlists, kept collecting tracks — and without realising it, he was training his ears the whole time. When he started creating again at the end of 2025, what he found was not a sudden talent. It was something that had been there all along, finally with a form.

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I haven’t heard it done quite like this before.

There is a particular moment I love during the creative process, when I hear something and think exactly that. […] A track can work technically and still leave me completely indifferent. That isn’t enough. I’m looking for energy, euphoria, tension, melancholy — sometimes an emotion I can’t even name.

ORBYT — for FMV FIT Radio

The trajectory

Nothing here is a straight line — which is rather the point of an orbit.

First

Music in the car

Some of his earliest memories: travelling with his family with music playing, and the CDs his father kept at home.

At 16

The first CDJ

He asked his father for it, started mixing, and began experimenting with very simple music software.

Then

Years without creating

He stopped making music — but never stopped listening. Discovering, building playlists, collecting tracks. Training his ears without knowing it.

End of 2025

Starting again

The important discovery wasn’t new talent. It was that the creativity had always been there — it had simply never had a medium.

Now

A world you can enter

At first, ORBYT meant “my world” to him. Today he sees it more as an open space: a world that starts with him, but that anyone can walk into and find something of their own in.

HARMONIC WAVE

THE TRACK

“HARMONIC WAVE”

Of the three tracks selected for FMV FIT Radio, this is the one that argues with the other two. VICTORIA is about overcoming. EUPHORIA is about a moment of pure release. HARMONIC WAVE is about realising that sometimes you don’t need to fight at all.

It is built out of images and metaphors of surrender, flow and release — the sound of a decision to stop resisting. Different energies, he says, but all three begin with an emotion and try to turn it into something you can physically feel.

A track can leave my hands with one meaning and enter somebody else’s life with a completely different one. […] I can’t decide what somebody should feel. I can only try to create something that allows them to feel.

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HIGHLIGHT TRACK

“HARMONIC WAVE”

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In conversation with ORBYT

Eight questions about the person outside the project, the years of silence that turned out to be preparation, how he tells a real idea from a good-sounding one — and what growth would look like with the numbers taken out of the picture.

Interview

01 Who is Stefano outside the artist world — something people would never discover just by listening to your tracks?

Outside music, I think I’m a very curious person. I tend to adapt to different situations, but at the same time I can be extremely stubborn when I really care about something. If I decide I want to understand, build or achieve something, I find it difficult to leave it unfinished.

I’m also a dreamer, probably more than people would imagine. I can take something very small — an object, a conversation, a random thought — and start imagining what it could become.

And outside music, I think I carry with me the same thing that eventually finds its way into my tracks: the need to understand what is making me feel alive in that particular moment. That side of me existed long before ORBYT. Music simply gave it somewhere to go.

02 Every artist has a reason to keep creating, even when nobody is listening yet. What keeps you coming back?

Music has been around me for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of travelling in the car with my family with music playing, or listening to the CDs my father had at home. At around sixteen I asked him for my first CDJ and started mixing and experimenting with very simple music software.

Then I stopped creating for many years — but I never really stopped listening. I kept discovering music, building playlists and collecting tracks. Without realizing it, I was training my ears the entire time.

When I started creating again at the end of 2025, I realized something important: creativity hadn’t suddenly appeared. It had always been there. I had simply found a medium through which I could finally give it a form. That discovery is probably what keeps bringing me back.

03 Outside music itself, what has shaped your creative identity the most?

Curiosity, more than anything else. I’ve never been particularly comfortable staying inside one world. Even as a listener, pop, house, techno, electronic music, rap and hip-hop could all exist next to each other for me. I was always searching for the next track, the next sound, something I hadn’t heard before.

That eventually became part of ORBYT. I don’t want the project to exist inside one genre simply because it makes it easier to define. Different ideas sometimes require completely different musical languages.

The name itself comes from my fascination with space and the idea of an orbit: something moving around a centre while following its own trajectory. ORBYT became my way of building that centre — a world where different influences, images and emotions can coexist without having to follow somebody else’s path.

04 How do you decide whether an idea is genuinely yours rather than simply something that sounds good?

There are two tests. The first is what I call the “fingerprint.” Almost every track needs something at its centre — a hook, a phrase, a melody, a mantra, sometimes even a particular sound — that can make it recognizable with very few elements. Everything else can then be built around that nucleus.

But the second test is more important: I need to feel something while listening to it. A track can work technically and still leave me completely indifferent. That isn’t enough. I’m looking for energy, euphoria, tension, melancholy — sometimes an emotion I can’t even name.

And I’m always looking for surprise. There is a particular moment I love during the creative process, when I hear something and think: “I haven’t heard it done quite like this before.” That is usually when an idea starts feeling like ORBYT.

05 What kind of connection do you hope someone has with your music once it is no longer in your hands?

I actually love the fact that I can’t control that. A track can leave my hands with one meaning and enter somebody else’s life with a completely different one. VICTORIA could become energy during a workout. Another track might accompany someone driving at night, celebrating something, remembering someone, or simply needing a few minutes away from everything else.

I can’t decide what somebody should feel. I can only try to create something that allows them to feel. Maybe that is energy, relief, euphoria or emotion. Maybe it simply makes three minutes of their day better. That is already meaningful to me.

At first I thought of ORBYT as “my world.” Now I prefer thinking of it as an explorable world: something that starts with me, but where somebody else can enter and eventually find something that belongs to them.

06 We selected VICTORIA, EUPHORIA and HARMONIC WAVE. What do these three represent for you, and is there a common thread?

They are three different sides of ORBYT. VICTORIA started with the idea of victory, but I wanted it to mean something bigger than simply winning. I was searching for a feeling of redemption, glory and scale — almost the soundtrack to the moment when you finally overcome something.

EUPHORIA has a completely different story. Its central melody existed before the track itself. I had written it for an unfinished project, but I couldn’t let it go. Eventually I returned to it, and it found its place in a track built around that feeling of euphoria.

HARMONIC WAVE comes from a different place again. Its idea is about reaching a point where you stop fighting everything life puts in front of you. Sometimes peace doesn’t come from winning another battle, but from allowing yourself to let go, stop resisting and simply live. That feeling is reflected in the track through images and metaphors of surrender, flow and release.

For me, that is also what connects these three tracks. They represent different emotional responses to life: VICTORIA is about overcoming, EUPHORIA is about experiencing a moment of pure emotional release, and HARMONIC WAVE is about realizing that sometimes you don’t need to fight at all. Different energies, but all three begin with an emotion and try to turn it into something you can physically feel.

07 As you evolve, what do you want to preserve regardless of how much your sound changes?

Emotion. Genres can change. Tempos can change. Voices, instruments and production techniques can change. I actually want those things to keep changing, because experimentation is part of what makes ORBYT interesting to me.

But I never want to reach a point where I’m creating something simply because it works. The genre is a tool. The idea comes first.

Whether a track is powerful, intimate, euphoric or melancholic, I want there to be something inside it that can reach the listener. The same applies to vocals: there isn’t one “ORBYT voice.” There is the right voice for each track, but it has to leave a mark. If the sound changes completely five years from now but that search for emotion is still there, I think the identity will still be ORBYT.

08 With streams, numbers and recognition removed, what would make you feel you had truly grown?

Being able to listen back and hear the distance I’ve travelled. I already experience that on a smaller scale. Something I created a few months ago can suddenly reveal details I would approach differently today. I don’t see that as a problem. I think it means the way I listen is evolving.

I look at my catalogue almost like a photo gallery. Every track is a snapshot of what I knew, what I felt and what I was capable of creating at that particular moment.

So if, a few years from now, I can listen to today’s music and clearly hear how much I’ve learned since then, that would mean growth to me. I don’t think there is a final destination. You create something, learn something, move forward, discover something new — and the loop begins again.

Where to listen to ORBYT

There is no final destination, by his own description: you create something, learn something, move forward, discover something new — and the loop begins again.

You can hear ORBYT here, in the FMV FIT Radio rotation, and follow the project wherever you listen.

Artist: ORBYT
Highlight track: “HARMONIC WAVE”
On FMV FIT Radio: VICTORIA · EUPHORIA · HARMONIC WAVE
Genre: Electronic · House
From: Italy
Behind the project: Stefano — producer, writer and the centre the project orbits.
Materials: Interview, pictures and audio provided by the artist and published with his permission