Alberto Bertapelle, better known by his stage name Brainbug, was an Italian symphonic electronic trance music producer and guitarist from Ceggia, Italy.

Born: 23 December 1958
Died: 23 November 2016

At the end of 1996, a track took everyone by surprise by its ghastly aspect and its pizzicato strings. Nightmare went on to be an international hit and kickstarted the ’Pizzicato Syndrome’.
Brainbug, a project of Alberto Bertapelle, had another success with Benedictus, but further singles The Eighth Dwarf and Rain (with vocals) used the exact same formula and got lost in a sea of similar records: Brooklyn Bounce, Lucid, Max Deejay and even deep house artist Kevin Yost used the ’Pizzicato’ sound until it wore thin and obsolete.
A cover of Nightmare released in 1997 by Space Shuttle (an alias of Dee Jay Sören), was called We Have A Problem and added the famous line ’Houston, we have a problem’ in the middle break.