PRODUCER · DJ · ITALO-DISCO FROM THE ADRIATIC
The new album Italia — out now, all ten tracks.
Ciao Italia… hola España. Melli takes the disco ball to a Spanish beach bar — a sunset that turns into a mirror ball, a bassline that won't let go, and one word for the whole night: calor. Her first single in Spanish.
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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 single that lit the way to the album Italia — and now closes it as the final track.
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♪ Madonna delle Onde — stream & saveOne song a day until the whole country was singing — all ten tracks out now as one album, opening with the title track Italia and closing with Madonna delle Onde, the single that started it all.
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 Italia 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.
Six questions. How deep does your glitter go?
Every disco needs a stage name. Find yours.
Four questions. One very Italian answer.
Official Melli Dorèlli merch — italo disco dalla riviera. Heavyweight garment-dyed cotton, printed on demand and shipped worldwide.
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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.
Italia is her 2026 album: ten tracks that first arrived one per day, from lead single Madonna delle Onde (5 June) to Italia (14 June). The full album followed on 31 July 2026 and runs the journey in reverse — it opens with the title track and closes with the single that started it all. On the album tee you'll see it stylised as ITALY. Hear every track in the album section.
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 — the album Italia is out now in full.
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.
Yes — all ten tracks are out. They arrived one per day between 5 and 14 June 2026, and the full album Italia followed on 31 July 2026, opening with the title track and closing with lead single Madonna delle Onde.
For sync licensing, remixes, press or DJ bookings, send a direct message on Instagram or Facebook.
Everything's in the merch section — retro italo-disco tees (€29,95–€34,95) like Madonna delle Onde, Rosmarino, Barolo, Italia and Piazza San Marco, an ITALY album tee with the full tracklist on the back, a patch hoodie and art prints. Premium Bella+Canvas cotton in sizes XS–5XL, printed on demand and shipped worldwide from the production facility closest to you.
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