The spark — launching SirChillicious
During my last years of high school, I spent a lot of time listening to music through the main curators on YouTube and SoundCloud at the time — channels like Majestic Casual, MrSuicideSheep and UKF. While I enjoyed their curation, I also wanted to find music on my own. I created my first SoundCloud account in the early 2010s and started looking for smaller, unknown artists.
It frustrated me that these musicians had so little exposure. As an experiment, I decided to launch my own YouTube music channel. On August 5th, 2012, SirChillicious was born.
I didn't think I would keep running it for more than a few months. However, the channel started gaining organic traction and reached its first hundred subscribers within a few weeks. Around the same time, the music platform plug.dj became popular, and I leaned into it completely as both a listener and a curator. Over the next decade, the subscriber count grew into the tens of thousands, and I had the opportunity to support more than 1,000 artists through my channels. That project led to great friendships with musicians, label owners and music fans, and I am incredibly grateful for it.
What set SirChillicious apart from other channels at the time was its eclectic mix. Many channels stuck to a very specific niche or genre, but I never wanted to limit myself. On my channel you will find everything from indie pop and dance to electronica — my only real criterion was that the tracks had to be either relaxing or packed with emotion.
The transition — returning to the decks
I have always experimented with DJing, and I started playing in front of crowds when I was around 17. In my early twenties, I shifted my focus entirely to music curation and stopped playing live gigs altogether.
That changed in June 2023. My close friend NeZoomie invited me to play a set at a private rooftop party, and playing that night brought back my drive for live performance. Later that summer, during a trip to Italy, I came up with my new moniker: Frank Motetti.
When NeZoomie and his partner started a Berlin party series called LIFTED in October 2023, they invited me to play the opening set. That experience brought me fully back into DJing, and I am now a resident at their parties. Alongside the club nights, I have also started playing at tech conferences and networking receptions — something I am actively available for.
The sound — Frank Motetti
My sets as Frank Motetti are characterised by an exotic, retro feel. While I love the house tunes coming out today, there is an incredible amount of great music from the 1970s onward that still belongs on a modern system.
Because of this, my sets usually feature at least one retro gem. It always surprises the crowd and changes the energy on the dancefloor, because it is unexpected. To me, that is exactly what a DJ should do: read the room, keep people moving, and introduce them to music they might not have discovered otherwise.