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Body in a Room

WARN-U EP /// Available September 26th 2011 /// LP, CD & DIGITAL

Ayshay - WARN-U

out now on Hospital Records. 

Reviews:

http://www.spin.com/2015/07/review-alessandro-cortini-risveglio/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20802-risveglio/



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Satin Wall -  Dans Les Profondeurs  ( Coldwave  1981 Belgique )

From the forthcoming Tomaga & Pierre Bastien album, Bandiera Di Carta, out via Other People September 20th

Tomaga & Pierre Bastien - Senza

Atmøsphäre - Leaving

‘Still Strange’ reaches back into the prized loft tapes of Jeff Sharp aka Orior following the revelatory discovery of his overlooked early ‘80s gems on 2016’s ‘Strange Beauty’ collection, as coaxed out by DDS' Miles Whittaker & Sean Canty.

Still Strange

Orior - To Return

Senja  3

Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Enter Exit. Taken from the album Illusion Of Time out 27th March on Phantasy / Mute Records. Visuals produced by experimental audio/visual artist LESS THAN ONE and the track is online now in all the usual places.
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Illusion of Time

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Daniel Avery + Alessandro Cortini - Enter Exit

Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician, producer, composer, and instrument builder. 

Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music, best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. Alongside being a longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails, he is highly prolific and has released a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, he has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow (to name a few). Balancing dark ambience with smokey, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured and mesmeric. 

Cortini was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 through his work with Nine Inch Nails, making history as the only Italian musician to have ever been honored with this recognition. 

In 2021, in collaboration with boutique synth builders Make Noise, Cortini released his own, custom-designed, semi-modular synth, “Strega” (Italian for ‘witch’). That same year, he used Strega to build his latest full length, Scuro Chiaro [Mute], which Pitchfork described as “pitched somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium ... consistently managing to thrill and surprise”. 

In addition to years of extensive worldwide touring, Cortini has also soundtracked fashion shows including Alexander McQueen, Dior, and several of Fendi’s presentations. In 2022, he exhibited a high-concept audio installation called “Nati Infiniti” for Sonar 2022 at Museu de Lisboa’s “Fábrica de Moagem.” A live version of “Nati Infiniti” is set to debut at Berlin Atonal in 2023.

Alessandro Cortini’s music has been licensed for use in television, film and documentaries, games, and commercials, including FX’s hit show The Bear, “Thank You Very Much” a documentary about Andy Kaufman, Samsung, BMW, Sony, and Netflix. Remixes have also been a part of Cortini’s identity – remixing the likes of Depeche Mode to Mogwai to Death Cab For Cutie, Yann Tiersen to Vatican Shadow, and more between and beyond.