"The Pipesmokers" is an italian dj duo composed by Alessandro Vigo and Luca Ferrero.

The Pipesmokers Project was born in March 2004 in Turin from a musical need of Luca Ferrero and Alessangro Vigo. In countertrend with the electro minimal style that is of major influence to the city and the Po's riverside clubs, their project proposes to carry ahead the Garage & Funk style that had brought House into the spotlight in Italy in the second half of the 90's. Soul, Funk, Acid & Nu Jazz, Garage, Deep House and a touch of Bossa are all defining in a Pipesmokers' dj set.

Luca Ferrero and Alessandro Vigo, 1985, come from Ivrea, 50 km from Turin. They meet in 2000 browsing through records in the town's music stores. Every Saturday their choice of records is the same; a coincidence? fate?
Fifteen years old and heaps of love for House Music: the dj-ing twosome starts.

Parties with friends, openings for old djs, some events in the small Ivrea, the arrival in the big Turin, a fortunate encounter. In march 2004, behind four 1200 MK-2, at the Q-ba Cocktail Club riverside the Po in Turin, project Pipesmokers Ceci n'est pas un dj is officially founded.

In 2009 Alex Paoloni chose The Pipesmokers for Soul'are SOUL'ARE Back to the House Roots, the new Soul/Funk oriented radio show by Partygroove Radio (http://www.partygroove.it)

March 2011, Alessandro moves to China and starts a succesfull collaboration with some of the most famous clubs in Beijing while Luca keeps on working in their production studio based in Caluso, Italy. October 2011, 'Gypsy Wondering' , the last single by the Pipes, is released by South Soul Elements. The package includes hot remixes by Groove Assassin (Defected, Mn2s, Seamless), Conan Liquid (Defected, Mn2s) and Alex Dimitri South Soul (BBE Music) and jumps 5th in Traxsource TOP100 three days after the promo release. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.