Presto Italy 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Lorenzo Senni's Presto!? Label - home to some of the most forward-thinking electronic music of the last five years - resurrects Theo Burt's 2009/2010 recordings, and compiles them into an album, Gloss. The tunes were, apparently, not meant to be released but when Senni heard them, there was no way he couldn't put them out and we couldn't agree more. We know you probably hear this a lot, but this LP is a true stand-out among the endless flurry of electronica releases out there today, and Burt's style is both singular and fun. Taking their main shape from 80's Casio keyboards, these eight tunes are vibrant and diverse, where Theo Burt mixes up everything from synth-pop, to ambient, and more. Our favourite moment resides in "Track 6", a jittery neo-romantic tune that gets wilder and more seductive with each new listen. Top draw!

Review: Psyops For Dummies & Purge by DJ Stingray is not new material. These six tunes have already been released on Lorenzo Senni's Presto!? label, except that their previous format was restricted to a credit-card-shaped USB stick. We loved that, but to have these six killers pressed up onto vinyl is what we crave the most, naturally. This is Stingray at his very best, each element throughout these electro bullets is immaculately placed and gloriously blended to form a thick, oozing cocktail of industrial sonics. We're heavily into all this material, but our top picks from this 12" have to be: "Disinformation" for its eerie, cerebral bass tones, the subtle yet instantly hummable micro-sonics of "The Sadist III", "The Strategy Of Tension" because it's some straight-up Stingray jacking, and the mighty bangs emanating from "Fullbodyscan". This is unmissable.

Review: We've become accustomed to hearing Donato Dozzy in full-on moody techno mode, so this gorgeously sun-kissed set of ambient compositions is a pleasing turn up for the books. The assembled tracks started life as a sound installation for 24 speakers, inspired by, and placed on, Rome's "Music Bridge". For this reason, many of the tracks include some form of musical movement - think Tangerine Dream style synthesizer arpeggio lines, Reichian style minimalist melodic cycles etc - while others seem to urge us to pause from breath and take in the view. Others draw influence from Indian percussion and instrumentation or swell like the water that flows beneath the bridge that inspired the music. Throughout, the results are little less than spellbinding.