MIX SERIES N1 (2020-2021)

[TIFMIX01] This mix is focused on music released in Italy - mostly during the 80s, a crazy decade for Italian music. On one hand it has been the only decade when Italian artists has made international dance hits (Den Harrow - Future Brain is the first example coming up to my mind atm), on the other hand a lot of under the radar indie labels released an enormous amount of great experimental / ambient stuff, mostly on cassette but sometimes on vinyl too. Many of these recordings has seen the light for a second time as they’ve been reissued in the last few years, but most of them are still waiting to be brought to a bigger audience. File under: Ambient, left-wing fanzines experiments, mail art, sound poetry, library-notreally-library, spoken word, Italian indie pressings.

Recorded live by Gabriele Casiraghi (@ggaabbrriieellee) in Milan, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Italian indie pressings, library oddities and fanzine related experiments 1980 - 1995 (pt.1)

[TIFMIX02] "Except one of the tracks on this mix all of them somehow have a direct connection to the Berlin experimental and/or underground music scene. For me it was easy to connect them because they flow in the same water... it might be a label (as Kashual Plastik), a radio station (as Cashmere Radio), playing with Jeroen Vermandere of the fantastic Ongehoord label, or a concert night by bohemian drips in the sunny hole of z-street. And then of course the new epicenter of the scene, Arkaoda, where I had the pleasure to meet Davide who delivers you this little thing here."

Recorded live by Felix Geiger (@blechdj) in Berlin, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Blech - As long as you live, you shall smoke

[TIFMIX03] @cilloman is a dj and one of the founders @floraprotectionunit. His Dj sets are the result of a deep, almost anthropological research work. A journey in continuous search for universal sound, which begins from Africa and crosses Jazz and Disco, inhabits the suburbs of Detroit and touches the new frontiers of contemporary jungle of electronica.

Recorded live by Roberto Sacilotto in Venice, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Cilloman - Dimensional Purple

[TIFMIX04] @alterddd is a producer and deejay. Owner of @marguerite-records and @toccailfuturo. 
"Il Sognatore" is a mixed track related to memories, the good ones, about moments of leisure, sharing and carefree. It sounds like spring scents and precious bond. Alter D, the dreamer, could be just created a gathering place in which dreams and memories become a sort of touchable sounds and energy.

Recorded live by Davide Pestillo in Milan, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Alter D - Il Sognatore

[TIFMIX05] @filippo-zenna is a dj and selector from Nocera, small city near Naples. Always searching for not conventional, for purity, for simply but not granted message. He doesn't accept genres cataloging despite intense link with music. 
This mix was recorded on one of the many yesterdays that composed 2020 quarantine. Surfing imaginary waveforms made up of soothing ambient, forgotten oddball pop from the past, future-oriented dancefloor cuts and more, more of everything that sits in between.
It is already yesterday, but it doesn’t feel like it’s already today. Hopefully the future will start tomorrow.

File under: Abends, Breezy Ambient, Corsa Preoccupata, Italo Waves, Imagination, Futuro, Minimal Synth, Spoken Word, Trans-Amor-Express, Yesterday.

Recorded live by Filippo Zenna in Nocera, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

TASCAM DR-05

Filippo Zenna - È Già Ieri

[TIFMIX06] @federico-cassetta is a dj, collector and producer for a decade. His musical culture orbits a broad spectrum of influences and contaminations. Free from the concept of gender Federico hosts NERV RADIO SHOW, a mix of ideas and emotions minutely and dreamily woven into a common narrative thread.
"You are in, you feel them, you hear them, hidden. In space, the distant reverbs of harmonies of new attendances. You are in but elsewhere. Suspended but prisoner. Listen to it! Meditate!"

Recorded live by Federico Cassetta in Terni, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Federico Cassetta - Nascosto

[TIFMIX07] @atoloi is a blending of atmospheric pads and dynamic rhythms — a perfect match between ambient soundscapes and techno sonority. Devotee of nature, in Atoloi's productions he explores sound creating a mellow amalgam of layers using over- reverberated synths, field recordings and self-created samples. In this mix he tried to create a sound representation of a distant dimension where you can get lost between layered environments, subdued voices and amalgamated sounds in a single dense flow. A universe where time and space do not exist, where the Memory melts into the ether, where remembrances of lost places, vanishing sensations and visions now almost completely faded slowly resurface.

Recorded live by Matteo Ghiringhelli in Milan, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti

Atoloi - In Quies

[TIFMIX08] 8th mix from our series is courtesy of Athens based @ anatolianweapons. An hour of mostly ambient and experimental trax where the weird encounters the soothing.

Recorded live by Aggelos Baltas in Athens, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Anatolian Weapons - Looking Inwards

[TIFMIX09] 9th episode of the Tocca il Futuro mix series comes from Vilnius, dj and collector @lukasp. Movies and soundtracks lover, he always wants to tell stories with his mix. He also hosts a monthly radioshow on Palanga Street Radio.

Recorded live by Lukas Plevokas in Vilnius , 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Lukas Plevokas - Il Futuro

[TIFMIX10] 10th episode of the Tocca il Futuro mix series comes from Taranto, musician and sound maker @gasparesammartano. His solo work is focused on gathering and manipulation of tapes and reflecting on the evolution of modern sampling techniques. 
He is also part of the Canti Magnetici label team. 

Recorded live by Gaspare Sammartano in Taranto, 2020.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Sammartano - Dark Pool Gangs

[TIFMIX11] 11th episode of the Tocca il Futuro mix series comes from Margherita di Savoia, musician and composer @truemantic. Truemantic is the creature of Toto Ronzulli. Influenced by the goth music scene from the 80’s along with references to the Cold Wave, Post-Punk and Industrial, Truemantic takes us around in hell through dystopian and unpleasant momenta followed by illogical atonal resolutions. In December, 2017 he released his first on-vinyl remix work with Tocca il Futuro Records, followed by his debut album “Truemantic” and his last single “Destruction” out via Milan-based label Marguerite Records. He is currently working on the making of his second album. A combination of contrasting resonances and different soundscapes that result in 70 minutes of quite atmosphere. 
Recorded live by Toto Ronzulli in Margherita di Savoia , 2021.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Truemantic - Antithesis

[TIXMIX12] 12th episode of the Tocca il futuro mix series comes from Tuscan / Milanese dj and digger Gabriele Casiraghi - Sunny Crypt. Following up last year’s first chapter, this mix is again focusing on weird Italian music from the past. 
Includes 60’s electronic library experiments, mid 70’s ambient-proggers, Tuscanian Avantgarde theatre , Sardinian organic folk chants, 80s emo waves recorded near my hometown, a guide to hypnosis and a lot more odd stuff.
Italy had (and luckily still has) a dense underbrush of small indie labels that released an amount of brave experimental / ambient / wave stuff; many of these recordings has seen the light for a second time as they’ve been reissued in the last few years, but most of them are still waiting to be brought to a bigger audience. 
See you next year for 3rd chapter : )
File under: 54100, Ambient, Astrale, Hypnosis, Ecografici, Italy, Experiemental, Emo Waves; Non lo so, Nastri Ritrovati.

Recorded live by Gabriele Casiraghi (@ggaabbrriieellee) in Milan, 2021.
Artwork by Emanuela Dassisti.

Italian indie pressings, library oddities and fanzine related experiments 1965 - 2001 (pt.2)

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