
This year has been marvelous for Meter Bridge.  Hot on the heels of our debut release we introduced our first full length album, “Slow Motion”. We had loads of interviews, reviews and radio play.  Thanks to our friends and collaborators, our music has been heard, creating a loving fanbase across the globe.  We have big plans for 2016 including another album with a live show to support our voracious recording appetite.  Stay tuned for some exciting new collaborations and some videos that will visually enhance the unmistakable Meter Bridge sound.

This playlist just scratches the surface of the musical realms we have been exploring this year.  We are huge music fans and we love to share our excitement for new tunes.  Many of these artists are people we have interacted with or hope to meet someday.  We hope you enjoy this carefully arranged sound experience ranging from darkpop to indie folk, culminating in a lovely ambient drift.  Best wishes from us to you!


Meter Bridge's discoveries of 2015

Mentes Sumer 2016

80's to XXI

Minimal Synth

New album 'Technology For The Youth' is out now at circuit3.bandcamp.com on multi-coloured Vinyl LP, CD and Digital Download
"Truly retro-futuristic... youthful sound that lifts your spirits" ~ The Record Stache

"Technology For The Youth’ is an intelligent artistic statement on the trials and tribulations of mankind in the context of space travel. Like a musical research paper that draws parallels to today, it prompts a thoughtful mode of listening that encourages further reading." - electricity.club.co.uk

BUY THE ALBUM !

An introduction to Circuit3

One + One

Taken from the album  'Technology For The Youth' which is available on digital storesincluding Spotify and Apple Music, as well as via Bandcamp on coloured vinyl LP, CD and Digital. 

Retro-futuristic but undeniably human, Circuit3 is the alias of Irish electronic artist and songwriter Peter Fitzpatrick. Using analogue synthesizers as a vehicle for lyrical storytelling, this music is heavily influenced by the classic era of electronic pop.

A childhood fascination with space provides the emotional narrative arc for 'Technology For The Youth', a collection of crisp electronic pop songs and atmospheric instrumentals created with an enviable array of analogue synthesizers. It focuses squarely on that period before digital synthesis, just as the lyrics are informed by those endeavours in space exploration pre-dating the first Space Shuttle left Cape Canaveral.

Circuit3 debuted with the 'siliconchipsuperstar' LP (2018), followed by the album 'The Price Of Nothing & The Value Of Everything' (2019), praised by no less than Martyn Ware (The Human League, Heaven17). More recently, Circuit3 also released a remix created of Rodney Cromwell 'Opus Three'.

For Fitzpatrick, this was the album he always hoped he would make and one that he has poured his entire heart and soul into. 'Technology For The Youth' is electronic pop constructed from the brave ambitions of forward-thinking scientists and politicians, and the remembered hopes, dreams and fascinations of a young Dublin boy.

ALBUM CREDITS
All music written and recorded by Peter Fitzpatrick
All songs recorded and produced in Ireland by Peter Fitzpatrick
Mastered by Richard Dowling (WAV Mastering)

In The End (We All Become Closer)

PRE-ORDER HERE: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/dark-entries/patrick-cowley-school-daze-2xlp/

"Nightcrawler" is taken from "School Daze", a retrospective double LP of disco pioneer Patrick Cowley.

This very special LP features a compilation of restored Cowley productions unearthed in the garage of vintage gay porn company Fox Studio. Spanning nearly 90 minutes, the 11 tracks (originally recorded between 1973 and 1981), epitomize Cowley's forward thinking and his affinity for mixing elements of varying styles of music. 
 
Simply put, Cowley was a musical trailblazer ahead of his time. His approach to making music was an experiment of sound and with his since exploration he forged a new electronic sound and style, cementing his position as a key player in the creation of hi-NRG dance music and the San Francisco Sound. 

His credits as a producer include Sylvester's "Do You Wanna Funk", Paul Parker's "Right on Target" and collaborations with Jorge Socarras of Indoor Life - this is just the tip of the iceberg. 

An early victim of AIDS, Cowley passed away at the age of 32; these recordings shine a new light on the experimental side of a disco legend who was taken too soon from us. 

School Daze will be released on what would be his 63rd birthday, October 19th. All proceeds from the release will go to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential people in the cannon of disco music, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music coined "The San Francisco Sound." Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco at the age of 21. He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the Electronic Music Lab. During this time Patrick createe radio jingles and electronic pieces using the school's equipment, first a Putney, then an E-MU System and finally a Serge synthesizer. He made experimental instrumental songs by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer.

By the mid-70's, Patrick's synthesizer skills landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco superstar Sylvester such as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance Disco Heat” and "Stars." This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. Of particular note was his 18-minute long remix of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and production work with edgy New Wave band Indoor Life. By 1981 Patrick released a string of dance 12" singles, like “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”, creating the soundtrack for a generation. Also that year, he founded Megatone Records and released his debut album. Around this time Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with a then-unknown illness: that would later be called AIDS. Prior to his passing on November 12, 1982, he recorded two more Hi-NRG hits, “Do You Wanna Funk” for Sylvester and "Right On Target" for Paul Parker.

In 1981 Patrick was contacted by John Coletti, the owner of famed gay porn company Fox Studio in Los Angeles. John had heard about Patrick's music from the legendary Sylvester and proposed he write music for his films. Patrick jumped on this offer and sent reels of his college compositions from the 70s to John in LA. Coletti then used a variable speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of Patrick's songs in-sync with the film scene. "School Daze" is a collection of Cowley's instrumental songs recorded between 1973 and 1981 found in the Fox Studio vaults. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Giorgio Moroder, Patrick forged an electronic sound from his collection of synthesizers, modified guitars and self-constructed equipment. The listener enters a world of dark forbidden vices, introspective and reflective of Patrick's time spent in the bathhouses of San Francisco. The songs on "School Daze" range from sparse proto- techno to high octane funk to somber post-punk to musique concrete, revealing the depth of Cowley's unique talent.

Featuring over 80 minutes of music, this compilation contains soundtrack music from two Fox Studio films, "Muscle Up" and "School Daze", never before released on vinyl. The tapes were restored and transferred using the same speed and pitch settings, then remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl comes housed in a glossy dual pocket gatefold featuring classic gay porn imagery from the Fox Studio vaults plus an essay from Indoor Life vocalist, Jorge Soccarras. For Patrick's 63rd birthday, Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem present a glimpse into the instrumental world of a young genius. These recordings shine a new light on the experimental side of a disco legend who was taken too soon. All proceeds from "School Daze" will be donated to Project Open Hand and the AIDS Housing Alliance.

Patrick Cowley - Nightcrawler

MR-007 Guyer’s Connection
Guyer’s Connection were a Swiss duo that started making electronic music in 1982.  Tibor Csebits and Philippe Alioth were merely 14 and 15 years old and were armed with simply 2 synths, a drum machine, and a 4-track tape recorder.  They are best known for their highly-sought after self-produced and released album “Portrait” in 1983.  It is now considered a classic minimal synth pop masterpiece.  Several other members joined the band in 1984 and worked together for some time.  Philippe Alioth has been very active in the music business writing, producing, and running a Swiss studio as well as running a Swiss label (Sonic Content).  This extraordinary collection of tracks was discovered in a dark recess of Philippe’s achives of 4-track tapes in his studio.  The tapes were recorded from 1982 to 1984 but were rediscovered in 2005.  A portion of the songs were restored/remixed/remastered.  The German record label Kernkrach released the tracks in 2005 in a limited viny-only pressing of 330 copies.  This sought-after release has long been out of print.  Medical Records in collaboration with Philippe Alioth is proud to present another presentation of these glorious tracks.  Featuring 13 tracks (including several never before released and a few reworked versions of tracks released in 2005), this will appeal to all lovers of minimal synth, electro-pop, flexi-pop, and the like.  Standout tracks include the vocoder tinged “Discoqueen II”, the hyper-catchy “Ar Isch Schon”, and a slightly modified version of “He Sabine!”.  New tracks include an interpretation of a German children’s song and “Macky Messer” featuring words by Kurt Weill.  The LP features newly created front and back artwork.  Presented on 180gm green vinyl in a limited edition of 600 hand-numbered copies. Released: July, 2011 - LP Sold Out, Digital Available.

Guyer’s Connection - He Sabine! (MR-007)

'Future Radio' is now available across online stores, including Spotify and Apple Music, as well as via Bandcamp, where the new album 'Technology For The Youth' is available on coloured vinyl LP, CD and Digital.

Dublin electronic artist Circuit3 has signed with Manchester's AnalogueTrash label for the new album 'Technology For The Youth', ahead of which comes the upbeat lead single 'Future Radio', co-produced by Wolfgang Flür (Kraftwerk) collaborator iEuropean (Sean Barron) and mastered at WAV Mastering by Richard Dowling, known for his work with Paul McCartney, Kylie Minogue, Motorhead, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, New Order and Sparks.

Retro-futuristic but undeniably human, Circuit3 is the alias of Irish electronic artist and songwriter Peter Fitzpatrick. Using analogue synthesizers as a vehicle for lyrical storytelling, this music is heavily influenced by the classic era of electronic pop. .

"Every Circuit3 album features a track co-written with Brian McCloskey, better known to many as the curator of the magnificent Smash Hits magazine archive 'Like Punk Never Happened'. From California, he sent me lyrics for 'Future Radio', which captured my childhood love of pirate radio stations popped into a blender with the space race.  Starting out as an homage to The Buggles, it becomes a boy's adventure tale, drifting off to sleep to the sound of pirate radio signals ebbing and flowing into my dreams," says Peter Fitzpatrick.
 
A childhood fascination with space provides the emotional narrative arc for 'Technology For The Youth', a collection of crisp electronic pop songs and atmospheric instrumentals created with an enviable array of analogue synthesizers. It focuses squarely on that period before digital synthesis, just as the lyrics are informed by those endeavours in space exploration pre-dating the first Space Shuttle left Cape Canaveral.
 
Circuit3 debuted with the 'siliconchipsuperstar' LP (2018), followed by the album 'The Price Of Nothing & The Value Of Everything' (2019), praised by no less than Martyn Ware (The Human League, Heaven17). More recently, Circuit3 also released a remix created of Rodney Cromwell 'Opus Three'.
 
For Fitzpatrick, this was the album he always hoped he would make and one that he has poured his entire heart and soul into. 'Technology For The Youth' is electronic pop constructed from the brave ambitions of forward-thinking scientists and politicians, and the remembered hopes, dreams and fascinations of a young Dublin boy.

ALBUM CREDITS
All music written and recorded by Peter Fitzpatrick
All lyrics written by Peter Fitzpatrick except ''Future Radio', written by Brian McCloskey
All songs recorded and produced in Ireland by Peter Fitzpatrick
'Future Radio' co-produced by Sean Barron (ex-Kraftwerk collaborator iEuropean)
Mastered by Richard Dowling (WAV Mastering)

Future Radio [Radio Edit]

Overview Effect [Radio Edit]

Overview Effect [KeX/1 Remix]

Produced by Crater
Mixed by Trevor Spencer
Mastered by Douglas Schadt

Guitar: Ben Roth
Bass: Spencer Miller



Crater Head

"Try to be a saviour a soldier like you were back then..."

A stunning mix of synthy electropop songs, all lovingly wrapped up in bleeps beats and synthy ear candy. 

The radio hit and live favourite "NEW MAN" appears on the album 'siliconchipsuperstar which is available now from http://circuit3.bandcamp.com or http://www.circuit3.com or by clicking on the "BUY THE ALBUM!" link above.

FREE DOWNLOAD

New Man

Very first song I ever wrote with my good friend Ian Howell about 8 years ago! This is where it all started for me.  Never has been released and will probably stay that way but wanted to say thanks for your support and show you all.. my very first 'having a go' at writing a song. Its not finished but hey ho. We all start somewhere - xx

White Noise

Swim Deep taken from The Delta. 
Written by Brolin.
Produced by Brolin, Raffertie and Hannes Rasmus. 

Swim Deep in this setting sun
Let the surface fade and the silence heal
I'll keep this photo safe, Til my dying day
We're all fading

I'll call on you 
I'll call on you 
When these eyes are wide
And the heart is still
I'll come find you
I'll come find you
I'll look everywhere
Through the cinders and smoke

Swim deep, love wash over me
Swim deep, free forever
Swim deep, warmth wash over me
Swim deep

Breathe free in this morning light
Push anxiety away
I'll keep this photo safe
Til my dying day
We're all fading

Swim deep, love wash over me
Swim deep, free forever
Free fall

I'll call on you 
I'll call on you 
When these eyes are wide
And the heart is still
I'll come find you
I'll come find you
I'll look everywhere
Through the cinders and smoke

*Download the FREE 'Flags' Mixtape over at www.iambrolin.com that features exclusive Brolin material*

Swim Deep

Louder Than Words [Radio Edit]

Lead track taken from RODNEY CROMWELL 'Age of Anxiety' (Happy Robots Records: Bot5)

Video at: http://youtu.be/l8jfuc20QQ4 
CD available from www.happyrobots.co.uk

RODNEY CROMWELL - Barry Was An Arms Dealer

By American electronic band Rare Facture, Nothing Matters is the first single from their debut album Light in the Dark - releasing 6/30/15.

Nothing Matters - Album Version

Here's a sample of my current single 'Difficult Times' which was released Monday 20th July 2015

Difficult Times (Snippet)

Don't know about a change in direction.A different path maybe,this path is dark. Avaiable on the A Darker Path ep on Teslacoil321 bandcamp !9.10.15
https://teslacoil321.bandcamp.com/

Disengage

This is the remix by Stephen Donohue (Foreign Technology) of our track Worthy

Worthy by GLYDA  Remixed by Foreign Technology

Read more on THUMP: http://thump.vice.com/en_ca/track/kruse-nuernberg-break-into-exploited-records-with-yokohoma-nights

@kruse-nuernberg 

Kruse & Nuernberg - Yokohama Nights Feat. Brolin

Taken from the forthcoming debut album 'The Delta' by Brolin
Released 30th October 2015.

Available to purchase via http://brolin.lnk.to/Store
Listen to more music via http://brolin.lnk.to/TheDelta

Kingston

Wendy Bevan is a British Musician and Multimedia Artist who combines a surreal, theatrical approach to her work across genres in performance, live visuals, experimental art-works, in musical performance, galleries and photographic imagery. She has developed a unique cinematic world and style of her own making. Wendy’s free spirit and personality as an artist in the most authentic sense enables her to freewheel between genres making panoptic, multifaceted art works. She believes in creating a universal language and balance in the crossover of disciplines. Her vivid and dramatic imagination reveals her immense creative, surreal energy as a story teller, conjuring an alternative, ethereal universe. 

As a singer, Wendy has collaborated with music producers including Paul Simm (Neneh Cherry/Amy Winehouse) Howie B (Bjork/ Tricky), Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague), Matthew Halsall and The Gondwana Orchestra. As a Violinist, the Balanescu Quartet and the experimental sound artist and producer, Christos Fanaras (Acid Witch Mountain/Elephant House). In 2015 Saints Don’t Sleep, her EP produced by Richard Frenneaux, was released. Complimented by an exhibition of Wendy’s photographic work and music video accompanying her new songs. The full project was launched at IMPOSSIBLE Project Space, Paris.

Love From the Moon, released on Unknown Pleasures Records in February 2016, rose to number one in the European Alternative Charts, paving the way for the success of her recent EP release Sweet Dedication. The ethereal, electronic EP coxes us down darkly-lit corridors of her universe to the throb of the synth, featuring two tracks from Wendy’s fourth-coming debut album Rose and Thorn produced by Marc Collin. The cold-wave, minimalist synth album in the wake of heroes like Suicide and Kas Product, mainly recorded on a Jupiter 8 and vintage drum machines, features live strings arranged and performed by the Balanescu Quartet, due to be released on Kwaidan and !K7 Records, September 2016.

The backdrop of minimalist post-punk basslines throb under Wendy’s dark vocals, accompanied by glimmers of needling synths and reverb-laden electronic organ, coming together to create a oeuvre that sits between Siouxsie Sioux and the dramatic mini-symphonies of Brooklyn’s Wood Kid. Several of Wendy's songs have been synched with feature films including Hanging on the Wire (2015) on ‘Anti-Social’ the Brit gangster movie directed by Reg Traviss and feature film, On Landguard Point scored by Michael Nyman in 2012 which featured Starless Night (Co-Written by David McAlmont).
Although initially training as a Photographer at Art school, born into a theatrical family, Wendy led a parallel life studying Performance and Music at Drama college. Bevan has exhibited and performed throughout the UK, Europe and internationally across prestigious platforms; galleries, venues including ICA, David Roberts Art Foundation, Toynbee Studios, Arts Admin, Hackney Empire and music festivals Latitude, Wilderness, Secret Garden Party. Live art performance festivals; SPILL Festival, Edinburgh Festival and with immersive theatre pioneers Punchdrunk. 

The various roles Wendy has cast herself over the last decade, be it as vocalist, visual artist, lyricist, photographer, filmmaker, and performer, she melts and morphs wherever a concept leads her, conceiving and manipulating her work as a means of creating a character, enabling her to deliver immersive experiences to her audiences. Wendy is a visionary and her love of theatricality is ever present in whatever she pursues.

Wendy Bevan - Sweet Dedication

taken from the forthcoming album "dawn" out on may 6th 2016

Money

Little Boy Lost - Life Like Love Life

A Blipblop remix of Nowadays by Art Fact. Released on the Spotify version of the final Art Fact album Closure.

Art Fact – Nowadays (Blipblop remix)

Superstar

Lovers featuring SEAWAVES

Part of Lovers EP - Part I out on July 22nd on Bandcamp and all digital platforms. Pre-orders are available now on https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/lovers-ep-part-i

Follow SEAWAVES: http://www.soundcloud.com/SEAWAVESMUSIC

© 2016 Timecop1983 & SEAWAVES


Lovers (feat. SEAWAVES)

This is about a girl's life at school and her nice friends and her thoughts about at night.
Suitable for it a part of the Snare is a sample of my car, though Loreene should not close the door.

Loreene, do not take that way.

Never...

The way they treat you

May, 2012

Crashing Satellites has reached the charts of www.recording.de, number 11.

http://www.tommeeloo.de/news.html

http://recording.de/Community/Songvoting/Chartshows/48/chartshow.html

I am really happy that I have found Stephen Newton (Stevie) for the vocals of crashing satellites.
Only his voice could tell the truth of the story.
Thank you, Stevie !

Geebee, who is singing the backing vocals, is the former singer of "Crashing Satellites". Stephen Newton has lift up the song on a higher level. It was the right choise for the music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3wG-mnLWzI

This is the latest Mix with changes at the bass, the choruspads, the vocals and the deatails.
Thx to Vince CL..., Gareth J. and kruparsonic !

Tom Meeloo

Crashing satellites (ViCL Mix; Vocals: Stephen Newton, Song: Tom Meeloo)

Du ser saker som inte finns

Kremlyn - Rutinas

http://www.discogs.com/Intolerance-Intolerance/release/4289830

INTOLERANCE s/t LP
Synthetic Shadows 2013
SS04

Originally released in 1985 on nearly-impossibile to find demo-tape. Now finally available on vinyl thanks to Synthetic Shadows label.


Gli Intolerance nascono nel settembre 1983, da un´idea di Luca Musso (Cuneo), Marco Marongiu (Busca) e Paolo Chiotasso (Torino), musicisti orbitanti intorno ai vari conservatori del Piemonte (Cuneo e Torino), alla Facoltà di Architettura di Torino e, soprattutto, allo SMET (Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino) fondato da Enore Zaffiri nel 1964. Obiettivo (e scommessa) fu quello di partecipare al primo concerto per suoni emergenti della provincia di Cuneo (a Sant´Albano Stura) dove, tra partecipanti e pubblico, saranni presenti alcuni tra i futuri protagonisti della futura scena cuneese e nazionale (Cristiano Godano per esempio). Questo primo concerto fu eseguito integralmente in playback, data l´impossibilità di eseguire LIVE i 2 pezzi presentati, per il gran numero di sovraincisioni e mixaggi su Revox A77 e la mancanza vera e propria di sintetizzatori polifonici (in quel momento avevamo a disposizione unicamente un piano elettrico Rhodes, la drumatix 606, un ARP Odissey monofonico e una Stratocaster). Dopo un discreto successo e curiosità suscitati da questa apparizione live, si trattò di decidere se dare seguito al progetto e dare vita ad un gruppo vero e proprio. Quindi scegliere una nuova strumentazione, trovare una voce solista etc....per dare una precisa connotazione alla musica e al gruppo. Punti di riferimento culturali/musicali sono stati i Suicide, i Daf, i Throbbing Gristle, i Joy Division, la nuova scena internazionale postunk/new wave, la scena musicale elettronica tedesca degli anni 60/70 e, in generale, tutto il panorama contemporaneo d´avanguardia del ´900, non solo musicale, ma architettonico ed artistico nel suo complesso. Si decide di mantenere la formazione a 3 elementi, formazione totalmente elettronica (nessun basso, chitarra o batteria) e di scegliere Raffaella Risso come nuova voce solista e front man (?) del gruppo. Da subito si è dimostrato impossibile avere come membro stabile Paolo, dato i suoi interessi artistici/musicali legati ad altri settori ed espressioni. La strumentazione usata nei 2 primi anni (che è quella usata nell´audiocassetta della SPN) è la seguente: Roland JX-3P, Roland Juno-106, Roland Sh-101 e l´immancabile Drumatrix TR-606. Fra la fine dell´83 e la fine dell´84 vengono composti alcuni tra i pricipali pezzi della produzione degli Intolerance, che rimarranno sempre presenti nei live del gruppo. In questo periodo si inizia a dare interviste a radio locali, suonare dal vivo (pochi concerti in zona; ad Ottobre 1984 addirittura a Pisa, nello storico Victor Charlie, in un´inedita formazione a 2 per l´occasione, il sottoscritto e la cantante). Avvengono in questo periodo 2 incontri fondamentali per gli Intolerance: con Ivan Rosso e Leonardo Borghese. Ivan sarà per i prossimi anni, pur non musicista, un membro di fatto della formazione. Grande amico e assoluto primo fan degli Intolerance, si è occupato, oltre che dei live set durante i concerti e delle foto, di procurarci contatti con le radio, gli organizzatori di concerti a con le riviste. Mi ricordo ancora adesso il viaggio fino a Cairo Montenotte, presso la redazione di Rockerilla (probabilmente 84) per consegnare il demo della nostra musica a Mario Rivera, che ci frutterà la prima recensione del gruppo. E la prima intervista a Radio Fossano, di cui Cristiano Godano era uno dei Dj. Leonardo Borghese è stato il "padre", il “deus ex machina”, il principale animatore della cosiddetta "scena cuneese". Iniziando a lavorare nelle radio locali, ha iniziato a far conoscere a Cuneo e provincia le nuove realtà musicali italiane e internazionali. In seguito, con la suo etichetta indipendente “Suoni dal Profondo Nord”, ha prodotto i primi lavori di tutti i principali gruppi della zona, e ha creato di fatto il background ottimale per far conoscere questi gruppi in Italia. Infaticabile promoter ed organizzatore, insieme ad Alberto Castoldi, dei 2 principali concerti/eventi musicali di quegli anni a Cuneo: Movimenti 86 e Movimenti 87, il primo con i migliori gruppi della scena locale, il secondo, vero e proprio festival, con i corrispettivi nazionali allora più blasonati: CCCP, Litfiba, Not Moving etc...
Intanto, parallelamente agli Intolerance, siamo impegnati anche con lo SMET, con concerti, partecipazioni a concorsi e seminari (in particolare il seminario, della durata di una settimana, che si tiene tenuto a Villa Amoretti (Parco Rignon. Torino) nell´autunno dell´84. Questo primo periodo degli Intolerance trova compimento nell´85 con il primo concerto al Macabre (storico locale di Bra, dove negli anni hanno suonato i Marlene Kuntz, Vinicio Capossela, i Denovo, White Zombies, Nico, Diaframma etc...), la registratione e l´uscita dell´audiocassetta prodotta dalla SPN e la fuoriuscita di Antonella dal gruppo (estate 85). Il materiale è stato registrato a Saluzzo da Lorenzo Balangero, chitarrista dei Dottor Sax, su un otto piste nello scantinato di casa. La registrazione è avvenuta nell'inverno dell´85, ed ha permesso di fissare su nastro queste sonorità fredde, minimali e più sperimentali, tipiche del periodo. Non sono presenti remissaggi, arrangiamenti diversi o particolari sovraincisioni, per cercare di essere più fedeli possibile all´idea di partenza. Con l´uscita di Antonella dalla formazione (per ragioni che mi sono sfuggite allora e che contituano a sfuggirmi ancora adesso, a distanza di 30 anni) si chiude il periodo sperimentale e creativo del gruppo, precocemente ed in maniera inaspettata. Il periodo che segue sarà quello di maggior "visibilità" e, forse, "successo" degli Intolerance, quello del vinile per VM Cinque per intenderci, ma si tratterà quasi sempre di nuovi arrangiamenti del materiale dell´ 83/85, senza particolari novità. Di seguito, velocemente, i dati relativi ai successivi 2 anni di attività del gruppo. IIª metà dell´85: la nuova formazione include Andrea Borsalino (basso e seconda voce, ex Diplay) e Peter Soro (chitarra). Registrazione di Noradreanalin per la compilation "A Place To Survive" della SPN. Concerti.
1986: concerti al Macabre di Bra, a Erba e a Torino. Intervista per VM di Milano. In Marzo entriamo in studio di registrazione (Emanuele Ruffinego, REM Studio) a Bra per il master dei 4 pezzi che saranno pubblicati da VM di Milano. Aprile: uscita di VM Cinque (Box Set, 2 Lp, Ltd 600 copie) dove sono pubblicati i 4 pezzi precedentemente registrati. Partecipazione a Movimenti ´86 a Cuneo (altra iniziativa di Leonardo Borghese, concerto con i migliori gruppi piemontesi). (Importante) Incontro con Fabrizio della Porta di Radio Torino Popolare, di cui saremo spesso ospiti nella sua trasmissione il lunedì sera.
1987: Di fatto anno di chiusura dell´attività degli Intolerance. Qualche concerto ed intervista radiofonica. Sei pezzi vengono pubblicati sull´audio cassetta allegata alla fanzine Amen - THX 1138 di Milano (Amen This is Religgion N° 6, 2000 copie). Partecipazione a Movimenti ´87 (11, 12 e 13 settembre, Parco della Gioventù di Cuneo), con la presenza di "tutto" il rock indipendente italiano (CCCP, Litfiba, Denovo, Not Moving etc...)
Per l´occasione gli Intolerance presentano una nuova line-up, nuovamente un trio, con un terzo tastierista, X Giraudo, ex Display.
Luca Musso viene a mancare il 4 giugno 1992 e la partita si chiude definitivamente. 

Marco Marongiu

INTOLERANCE - Noradrenaline [1985 ITALY MINIMAL-SYNTH]

New album "Technology For The Youth" July 2022 on CD, Digital and Limited Edition vinyl LP via ANALOGUETRASH Records (UK)
A stunning mix of synthy electropop songs, all lovingly wrapped up in bleeps beats and synthy ear candy.