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Voices From The Lake are Donato Dozzy and Neel, a duo that has redefined techno in both the live arena and the album format. Their debut full-length album for Prologue was widely heralded as a masterpiece for the way it displayed an incredible ear for sound design while painting vivid, multi-layered landscapes of slowly unfolding rhythm and texture. When playing live in serene environments like Japan's Labyrinth Festival, the pair explore experimental underwater sounds, African drumming, and minimalism while keeping the dancefloor in motion. 
 
In July of 2012, Voices From The Lake came from Rome to Brooklyn to present a special night of music at The Bunker in the back room of Public Assembly.  This was one of the greatest nights of music in the history of The Bunker.  Their tremendous six-hour set consisted of two separate live sets, and back-to-back DJ sets.  None of the music from the either of the hour-long live sets had been released, so we immediately got on them about their plans for the tracks.  We agreed on our favorite segments, and they produced live studio tracks based on those excerpts.  A few Voices From The Lake tracks have come out since the album, but this is their first full release since 2012. 

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab
Cut at Dubplates and Mastering
Pressed at Brooklyn Phono


Velo di Maya

A1 - Velo di Maya (Clip)

Voices From The Lake : 05 - S.T. (VFTL Rework)

Voices From The Lake : 06 - Meikyu

Voices From the Lake Donato Dozzy & Neel - Drop 1

Voices From the Lake Donato Dozzy & Neel - Drop 3

Voices From the Lake Donato Dozzy & Neel - Drop 4

Digital: 
https://voicesfromthelake.bandcamp.com/album/secondo-tempo

Vinyl: 
https://clone.nl/item38583.html

Acclaimed techno, dub and atmospheric craftsmen Voices From the Lake, aka Italians Donato Dozzy and Neel, are starting their own new label, Spazio Disponible. 

The label will start with a release from Voices From The Lake in March 2016, then a solo EP from Dozzy in May, but will be about much more than just putting out 12"s: it is a conceptual idea that will see friends of the duo release music, but will also be accompanied by a quarterly party at Goa in Rome. The first one will be March 18th where Donato and Giuseppe will play all night long with a close musical friend. 

More than that, though, the artists playing will be in the studio the whole week running up to the night, jamming and preparing music for the night and potentially producing a record that will later be put out on the label. The setup at Goa will be a hybrid of machines, live gear and DJ equipment that will allow for fluid transitions between each as the party unfolds. Essentially each event will be one big jam that features artists joining in and dipping out at will. Line-ups won't be announced for any of the nights, with the whole thing paying heed of the title, Spazio Disponibile. 

As for the first release, it features three tracks of absorbing and hypnotic deep techno that sucks you deep down into an organic world of super smooth sound. Subtly filled in with pixel thin synths, trance inducing bleeps or spaced out pads, it offers a fine taster of what to expect from Spazio Disponibile both on record and in the club.

A1.	Voices From The Lake - Ibrida
A2.	Voices From The Lake - 258 B
B1.	Voices From The Lake - Secondo Tempo

Spazio001 - Voices From The Lake - Secondo Tempo

Digital: 
https://donatodozzy.bandcamp.com/album/that-fab

Vinyl: 
https://clone.nl/item40183.html

Spazio Disponibile is the Italian label run by Voices From the Lake, aka Italians Donato Dozzy and Neel. It finds the pair putting out music made with their Rome party of the same name in mind. Music comes from the founders themselves, as well as guests who record in the studio in the days leading up to the party. After a first release by Voices From The Lake, Dozzy is back with a solo EP offering four cuts to form the That Fab EP.

A1. Donato Dozzy - Aurora
A2. Donato Dozzy - A.Ritmica
B1. Donato Dozzy - TechTresor
B2. Donato Dozzy - The Drunken Ghost

Spazio002 - Donato Dozzy - That Fab

A. Sleepless (Voices From The Lake Remix)

Digital: 
https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/flauto-sintetico

Vinyl:
https://clone.nl/item40762.html

Dozzy and Neel's exciting new label Spazio Disponibile serves up a third release this summer, with the latest one coming from Italian Marco Shuttle. The techno stylist and Eerie boss serves up three tracks that continue to mark out his heady and hypnotic aesthetic. 

'Flusso Dinamico' opens up the EP with sevens minutes of brooding, streamlined and slick techno that is spooky and haunting. A gentle cacophony of big bells stomp over slick rubber drums and suck you deep into the groove. ‘Danza Cinetica’ is then darker and more intense but just as spacious and involving, with paranoid melodic daubs falling from above as suggestive little synth sounds bleep below. Lastly, 'Flauto Synthetico' is an adventurous 11 minute opus with slow, undulating drums forming a basis for experimental synth patterns, rugged phasing and distant bleeps to all colour the airwaves with a sense of late night and futuristic menace. It is music that is both cerebral yet visceral and fits in nicely with the MO of the Italian label so far.

A1.	Marco Shuttle - Flusso Dinamico
A2.	Marco Shuttle - Danza Cinetica
B1.	Marco Shuttle - Flauto Synthetico

Spazio003 - Marco Shuttle - Flauto Synthetico

Digital: 
https://mikeparker.bandcamp.com/album/undulating-frequencies

Vinyl: 
https://clone.nl/item41821.html

Donato Dozzy and Neel’s Spazio Disponibile keeps up the pressure here with a fine fourth EP of 2016, this time from Mike Parker. The label - which also has a party of the same name in Rome attached to it - deals in heady techno, so the Geophone label owner and New York artist Parker is a perfect fit with his always deep offerings.

A1.	Mike Parker - Undulating Frequencies
A2.	Mike Parker - Three Golden Heads
B1.	Mike Parker - Invisible Arms
B2.	Mike Parker - Two Step Sweep

Spazio004 - Mike Parker - Undulating Frequencies

Digital: 
https://modes-music.bandcamp.com/album/scenario

Vinyl: 
https://clone.nl/item42943.html

Keeping up their fine schedule, the Spazio Disponibile label is back with a fifth excellent EP, this time from Modes. Modes is an artist who is making his debut here, and he is one of a few guys Spazio is creating a platform for in the coming months. 

Modes fits right in with the deeply subliminal, transcendental style of the label and its associated party in Rome. Opener ‘M52’ is a supple and sci-fi mix of smooth rubber kicks and Millsian melodies that are trippy and hypnotic. ‘M51’ is darker and moodier, with smeared pads and grainy ambience making for a big and shadowy chamber of end-of-days techno that is full of foreboding, and finally ‘M44’ is more forceful and brutal, with reverb and electricity static adding texture to the cavernous airwaves. Compelling from start to finish, this is a fantastic debut from Modes.

A1.	Modes - M52
A2.	Modes - M51
B1.	Modes - M44

Spazio005 - Modes - Scenario

Digital: 
https://spaziodisponibile.bandcamp.com/album/paramagnetism

Vinyl:
https://clone.nl//item43664.html

Once again, Donato Dozzy & Neel's Spazio Disponibile label has come correct with a fantastic new EP, this time from Donato Dozzy in collaboration with US artist Mike Parker. 

Parker has a very unique and well styled brand of techno that fits in perfectly with the deeply hypnotic sounds favoured by Dozzy. Together they cook up four more brain frying cuts that are expertly crafted and meticulously sculpted. 

‘Meltemi’ goes first and is a grainy bit of subterranean ambiance that sounds like being stuck in a cave. ‘Paramegnetism’ then picks up the pace with a loopy and trippy techno track that has a lead synth hook burrowing deep into your brain and sci-fi details and rubber drums roll below. ‘Opalesce’ is then even harder, with more prying loops sending you wild as drums roll on uninterrupted below. It is darkened mind music of the highest order before last cut ‘Stegosauria’ sends out sonar blips and pulses as microbial synths scurry around the ticking groove. Once again then the Spazio label serves up its special brand of techno in real style.

A1.	Mike Parker & Donato Dozzy - Meltemi
A2.	Mike Parker & Donato Dozzy - Paramagnetism
B1.	Mike Parker & Donato Dozzy - Opalesce
B2.	Mike Parker & Donato Dozzy - Stegosauria

Spazio006 - Mike Parker & Donato Dozzy - Paramagnetism

Digital:
crossingavenue.bandcamp.com/album/malandra

Vinyl: 
clone.nl/item44884.html

Next up on Spazio Disponibile is a pair of artists who played the party of the same name at Goa, Rome last year. Their name is Crossing Avenue and their MO is to make experimental techno in a hi fidelity style that is as cerebral as it is physical. Here they do so across four fantastic tracks. 

Crucial is first and is a big, warm open space filled with tiny little flecks of sound, delicate synth flashes and rolling rubber drums that truly hypnotise. Malandra is another bit of burrowing mind music that is hugely atmospheric yet notably sparse and economic in design. The drums roll below as watery droplets, ghostly pads and haunting organic hooks all roam and snake about in the mix. Rimbalzo is darker and more direct, with a supple techno groove forcing you to move as flashes of synth, alien life forms and subterranean ambiance all color in the airwaves. Last of all, No Coasts traps you in another underground cave with only desolate drones and bulbous bass lines for company. It is eerie, but beautifully so, and rounds out another fascinatingly cinematic release.

A1.	Crossing Avenue - Crucial
A2.	Crossing Avenue - Malandra
B1.	Crossing Avenue - Rimbalzo
B2.   Crossing Avenue - No Coasts

Spazio007 - Crossing Avenue - Malandra

Digital:
https://spaziodisponibile.bandcamp.com/album/between-the-lines

Vinyl:
https://clone.nl/item45514.html

Italian label Spazio Disponibile continues its fine run of form with a new EP that features four collaborative tracks by the bosses Voices From The Lake (aka Donato Dozzy and Neel) versus Semantica boss Svreca. The EP is a result of their first studio session all together in Rome. All three have been perfecting cinematic ambient techno for years now and have the cerebral, atmospheric aesthetic down to a tee. Here they offer up proof across a series of hypnotic tracks that take you deep into your own mind. It’s alien and abstract yet wholly consuming and will zone you out in no time.

A1.	Voices From The Lake & Svreca - Circa
A2.	Voices From The Lake & Svreca - Isolation
B1.	Voices From The Lake & Svreca - Between The Lines
B2.	Voices From The Lake & Svreca - Shado

Spazio008 - Svreca & Voices From The Lake - Between The Lines

Digital:
https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/systhema-2

Vinyl & CD:
https://clone.nl/search?instock=0&query=systhema


For its ninth release, Italian label Spazio Disponible looks to countryman Marco Shuttle for a first full length. Entitled Systhema, it comes three years after his last album and finds him again focussing on an absorbing ambient techno style across eight enthralling cuts.

Shuttle runs his own Eerie label and favours a cinematic techno style that is cavernous and absorbing. He layers sound in subtle ways and has a meticulous attention to detail that has also seem him release on New York’s The Bunker, Peter Van Hoesen’s untouchable Time To Express and Clone SOS. 

Things kick off with the spooky ambient piece Adfrit, with its gentle pads bringing an oriental feel as glassy percussive tinkles dangle in mid air. Thebe is a little more propulsive, with gentle drums unraveling beneath more exquisite synth sounds and warm breezes up top. Despite being so empty, it is a hugely evocative cut, as are the rest: they range from deep and hypnotic techno rollers like the starry I Fail You Fall to more suspenseful ambient works like Eris. 

Later on, subliminal rhythms on Con Sequence are more implied than explicit, Venera is rippled with electric static sounds, Olga has a mind melting chord sequence rising up and down the scale and Ende is intense ambience that is heavenly and escapist. Always operating in a region where ambient, techno and heady soundtracks become one, with this album Marco Shuttle once again confirms he is one of the finest sonic sculptors out there.

A1.	  Marco Shuttle - Adrift
A2.	 Marco Shuttle - Thebe
B1.	  Marco Shuttle - I Fail. You Fall.
B2.	 Marco Shuttle - Eris
C1.	  Marco Shuttle - Con Sequenza
C2.	 Marco Shuttle - Venera 3
D1.	  Marco Shuttle - Olga
D2.	 Marco Shuttle - Ende

Spazio009 - Marco Shuttle - Systhema

Digital: 
https://neelrome.bandcamp.com/album/neel-the-vancori-complex

Vinyl:
https://clone.nl/item46553.html

The tenth release on the Spazio Disponibile label comes from co-founder Neel and marks his first solo EP ever. The Italian DJ, producer and mastering engineer is known for his supple and subtle techno both solo or as one half of Voices From the Lake with Donato Dozzy. Previous solo outings appeared on labels like Prologue and Spectrum Spools, and now he shows off his sound design skills once more across three compelling and intense techno cuts on his own label.

A1.   Neel - Sciara
A2.  Neel - Lahar
B1.   Neel - The Vancori Complex

Spazio010 - Neel - The Vancori Complex

Digital:
https://crossingavenue.bandcamp.com/album/avantieri

Vinyl:
https://clone.nl/item49536.html

A year after their debut on the label, Crossing Avenue return with five more sublime techno tracks on Spazio Disponibile. That first EP remains the only outing for the pair of Andrea La Bombarda and Andrea Montrone, and this new one is another experimental trip into mind melting grooves. 

Opener ‘Laguna’ is a loopy, liquid track of fluttering drums and rubbery kicks that never lets up. ‘Ortica’ is more gloopy and wonky, with firmer kicks and aqueous sounds dripping off the groove, while ‘Lyra’ is beautifully delicate and intricate, with underwater life forms drifting by as gentle xylophones sounds dance around. The masterful minimalism continues on the dark, undulating and alien ‘Vilipendio,’ and things round out with the paranoid voices and panning synths of ‘Mekong’, an unsettling track that has you looking over your shoulder.

Tracklist:

A1.  Crossing Avenue - Laguna
A2. Crossing Avenue - Ortica
B1.  Crossing Avenue - Lyra
B2. Crossing Avenue - Vilipendio
B3. Crossing Avenue - Mekong

Spazio012 - Crossing Avenue - Avantieri

Spaziale (Pessimist Remix)

We had the great pleasure to contribute with our track "Daydreaming" to the charity compilation project WorldWideWindow on Enisslab together with other 55 great artists.

100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross and help them fight COVID-19.

https://enisslab.bandcamp.com

In light of the current Covid-19 Pandemic Studio Enisslab headed up by Italian DJ / Producer and Live Act Neel has announced the release of a very special 56 track charity compilation project, fundraising for The Red Cross, who are working extremely hard alongside health services internationally that are feeling the effects of the corona-virus outbreak the most right now.

This special release features over 6 hours of previously unreleased and unheard material, where an all star cast of artists were encouraged to share music that reflects this time we are living in.

Neel, who is one half of live duo Voices From The Lake, and LF58 speaks out on behalf of the initiative, organised in collaboration with improvised live project Circle Of Live, and visual art collective Sbagliato. He explains:

“In this situation we all need to look after each other and this project is a start. I wanted to reach as many people as possible to spread this message, so I started to share the idea personally with lots of artists and the response was amazing. I wanted them to take their time with whichever tools they had available at home to produce some music that reflects this time we are living in, a contribution for this special project and to portray a special message.”

The project’s cover art image brought to you by visual art collective Sbagliato shows pictures of windows of houses and studios taken by the artists themselves: 56 musicians, 56 windows, 56 tracks shape a new place of sharing.

https://www.instagram.com/enisslab/
https://www.facebook.com/enisslabstudio/

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