Chronicles Diary, founded by Time Traveler (Michele Pinna), has relaunched as a curated platform that documents time, memory, and emotion through sound.
Originally a personal artistic diary, the label now balances its founder’s intimate vision with a roster of like-minded artists, including CVO, Commissar Lag, Stanislav Tolkachev, and MMSS. Each release is conceived as a “page” in an ongoing narrative, blending immersive techno with careful attention to vinyl and digital formats.
The relaunch emphasizes artistic integrity, long-term relevance, and storytelling over trend-driven promotion. With MMSS joining as both artist and partner, Chronicles Diary has grown from a personal record of experience into a collective journey, fostering dialogue and coherence across releases. Alongside albums, the label expands into podcasts and radio shows, creating a timeless platform where sound, emotion, and memory coexist.
In this feature, we spoke with the label’s founder about his artistic vision and the direction of Chronicles Diary’s evolution.
Hey dear, it’s so nice to have you in our KEYI world! Could you tell us who Time Traveler is? And introduce your label to us?
Time Traveler is my most intimate essence.
It’s the place where emotions and inner states I go through during different phases of my life transform into sound. Each track of mine is not planned it’s processed, lived, and then translated.
Chronicles Diary is where all of this naturally exists. It’s a space free from stylistic limitations, market expectations, or trend-driven influence. A place where sound is allowed to be honest, even when it’s uncomfortable or not liked by the masses.
MMSS joined not just as an artist but became a partner of the project. What does his presence unlock creatively that wasn’t possible before?
His presence brings real dialogue, not just collaboration. What used to be focused but solitary now gets challenged and refined through exchange: ideas are questioned, structures are tightened, and musical decisions are pushed until they hold up. With his mix of classical grounding, hardware-based techno practice, and design-level thinking, the conversation naturally moves from tracks to form and direction.
That makes growth possible without dilution. Different energies and listening contexts can coexist while staying coherent. Chronicles Diary moves from a personal document toward a deliberately shaped body of work less inward narrative, more constructed language.
Chronicles Diary was born from a need to “document sound as memory.” Do you remember the exact moment when the idea of the label stopped being just a release platform and became an archive?
Chronicles Diary carries a very deep conceptual, aesthetic, and emotional imprint from my grandfather. He used to self-publish his poetry diaries in bound notebooks: texts typed on his Olivetti Linea 88 typewriter, each volume carrying one of his own paintings on the cover. That idea of self-production independent, raw, and deeply personal shaped everything.
Chronicles Diary was born the exact moment I realized I couldn’t fit into any market scheme of an industry that consumes you and discards you when you no longer serve its logic. From that moment on, it stopped being a label and became an archive of resistance.
You’ve described each release as a “page” rather than a product. Looking back, how readable is the story today?
I believe that to an attentive listener, a clear space time journey can be perceived within the records released on Chronicles Diary.
I say space time because my music is influenced not only by the phase of life in which it was conceived, but also by the places and emotional environments where it was created. Those elements leave traces. They connect the pages.
Early on, the label featured remixers like Dave Clarke, DJ Hyperactive, and Bas Mooy. What did those collaborations teach you about artistic dialogue?
They taught me integrity.
They were pioneers of something that today is easily accessible, but that at the time required research, passion, and sacrifice. Their work showed me that artistic dialogue doesn’t need explanation it’s built on trust, respect, and coherence over time.
Those collaborations reinforced the importance of staying intellectually honest and never compromising vision for convenience.
Looking back, what did the label need to pause, reset, or “hibernate” before this relaunch?
Over the last five years, I’ve watched the scene increasingly turn into theatrical spectacle.
Underground culture has been looted and cannibalized by figures who never belonged to it until it became profitable to claim it. I didn’t know how to respond. So I stayed silent and Chronicles Diary had to stay silent too. During that silence, something became clear: to transform Chronicles Diary from a purely autobiographical sound project into a true label, I needed to share the vision. Among my closest friends, MMSS naturally became that presence. His depth, musical sensitivity, and cultural openness made it possible to turn Chronicles Diary into a collective journey rather than a solitary one.
You describe the relaunch as an evolution rather than a restart. What stayed untouched at the core?
What remained untouched is quality and intellectual honesty. But above all, the belief in belonging to a collective rather than standing above it. Chronicles Diary has always been rooted in love for a shared culture, a shared artistic language, and a scene built through exchange rather than extraction.
Your releases balance club functionality with deep listening. Whats next ?
There were days, months, even years when my internal frequencies were dark and slow they needed reflective soundscapes. Other times, the energy was restless, physical, and demanded muscular, functional records. What’s next will continue to move freely between those states. I don’t force balance I follow it.
What does ‘timeless’ mean to you in an era obsessed with overlapping and repetitive, unnecessary shows without meaning?
In an era dominated by endless scrolling and micro-doses of serotonin from likes, timelessness is the ability to feel again.
Replaying an old record.
Reigniting a memory.
Letting sound bring you back to a moment that still lives inside you.
That experience exists outside of time. I hope this little journey through my life will turn into a shared memory.
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