PRODUCER · DJ · ITALO-DISCO FROM THE ADRIATIC
New single “Madonna delle Onde” — out now.
A devotional nu-disco hymn to the sea — shimmering arpeggios, a four-to-the-floor heartbeat, and a chorus that prays to the waves. The first light of the album ITALY.
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Maria Elena “Melli” Dorèlli grew up in the rooms above her family’s trattoria in Sirolo, on the Conero coast, where the cliffs drop straight into the Adriatic. The summers belonged to other people’s holidays. The winters belonged to the family, the sea, and the radio.
She wasn’t a prodigy — she was the kid who tapped rhythms on the pew during Mass until her mother pinched her. The kitchen taught her timing first: the clatter of pans, the hiss of the moka, her father calling orders like a conductor who’d lost the score.
Everything turned the winter she was twelve and hauled a box of her uncle Tonino’s records out of the damp cellar — warped Italo-disco, a few battered disco 12-inches, a Moroder sleeve half-eaten by mice. Half of them skipped. She played them till the needle gave out.
For years she DJ’d anything that would have her: weddings, a cousin’s baptism, the August festa where the speakers always blew at midnight. Then she saved up, moved inland to Bologna, and spent her twenties learning to actually build the songs in her head — cheap monitors, late nights, plenty of bad ones before a good one. These days she mostly produces, back home by the water.
After her 2025 debut Disco Dorèlli, her new album ITALY is a love letter home — released one song a day, the way her town does everything: slowly, loudly, and with the whole family watching.
Little notes from Melli — the people and places behind the records.
From a Munich studio in 1977 to a small town on the Adriatic today — the sound Melli grew up on.
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Four questions. One very Italian answer.
Melli Dorèlli is an Italian music producer and DJ working in italo-disco, nu-disco and Mediterranean house. She grew up in Sirolo, on the Conero coast of the Adriatic, and today focuses mainly on producing.
ITALY is her 2026 album, released one song every day from 6 June 2026: Piazza San Marco, Barolo, Rosmarino, Rat in the Kitchen, Forno e Cuore, Pinocchio, Tiramisu, Disco Mine, and the title track Italia. You can pre-save the next drop right from the album section so it lands in your library the moment it's out.
From Sirolo, a small cliffside town on the Conero coast in the Marche region of Italy.
Her debut album is Disco Dorèlli (2025), featuring Chianti Fluire, Monte Nero, Parmesan Dreams, Carbonara and more.
Everywhere that matters: Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and more. The fastest way is the all-platforms link. Follow on Instagram and Facebook — Madonna delle Onde is out now.
Italo-disco at heart, with nu-disco and Mediterranean house — warm, sun-soaked dance music built on vintage synths, a four-to-the-floor pulse, and a very Italian sense of melody.
Right now she’s focused on producing, so there are no tour dates at the moment. Follow her on Instagram and Spotify to hear first about any future DJ sets or listening parties.
The final track — the title song Italia — drops on 14 June 2026, completing the nine-day, one-song-a-day rollout that began on 6 June 2026.
A new song lands every day. Don’t miss one — follow Melli and turn the notifications on.