PRE-ORDER : https://ecstaticrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/domestic-exile-collected-works-82-86-lp-special-edition

The first reissue release on Ecstatic comes from Italian ’mail-artist’ Daniele Ciullini.

Hailing from Florence, Ciullini was part of the forward-thinking TRAX collective, whose pan european art/music collaboration network acted as a proto-social network decades in advance of the internet. 

This compilation collects Ciullini’s self released 'Domestic Exile' cassette (1983) as well as selections from a series of other compilations(1982 to 1986)

When asked about the title 'Domestic Exile' Ciullini explains: The music in this cassette was born in a very difficult period of my life. A period marked by a rift with the world. 'Domestic Exile' reflects a time of recession, entrenchment within the walls of a tired soul. Most of the songs are improvised on the spot. Listening to the music today I think this aspect was perhaps naive. But I enjoyed realising something very close to my inner state at that moment.

Ciullini's music is as sharp and controlled as his elegant photographic images of decadent marble statues, mannequins and deserted Art-Nouveau architecture.He describes these songs as rapid "sonic polaroids” in which synthetic sketches and "Oriental" keyboard “voices” sit side by side with vigorous electro-industrial rhythm and metronomic modified drum machine pulses.

His music presciently fuses ambient and industrial, as well as echoing the synthetic alienation of 8 bit micromusic, the melodic wave sounds of Young Marble Giants, and even a proto-shoegaze guitar (see Soft Marble, with reciting voice) as well as hints of drone music (the magmatic loops of Bloody Machine). 

Tracklisting:

SIDE A 17:03
Violet 1:29
Marbles In The Garden 2:14
Trance 2:16
Lipstick On The Glasses 2:33
Decadence 1:30
Naked And White 2:21
Flowers In The Water 2:20
The Shadow Whisper 2:20

SIDE B 18:05
Deep Water 1:21
Silence 2:32
Silence 3 2:11
Networking 1:58
Notte Rossa A 1:00
Notte Rossa B 1:11
Soft Marble 3:41
Bloody Machine 4:11

- Daniele Ciullini's song 'Ancora Icone' was included in the compilation 'Mutazione: Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1986' Strur Records/Ecstatic 2013

- Mastered by Not Waving

- For fans of: Chris Carter, Throbbing Gristle, Merzbow, Suicide, Minimal Wave, Cabaret Voltaire, Mika Vaino, Tasaday, Nourse With Wound. 

- Extensive LP liner notes written by Vittore Baroni, TRAX co-founder, musician, journalist and an active popular figure in mail art circles and in the tape network. 

- Equipment list: Boss DR 55, Roland TR 606, Roland TB 303, Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar, Yamaha CS-5, Ems AKS, Casio VL-1, Teac A 103 tape deck, Pioneer MA-62 mixer, Akai DS MK2 tape machine

Release date:
30/03/15
Worldwide distribution:
KOMPAKT DISTRIBUTION
Artist: Daniele Ciullini
Title: Domestic Exile Collected Works 82-86 
Label: Ecstatic
Format: LP/Digital
Cat.no: ELP009

Daniele Ciulini - Lipstick On The Glasses (Ecstatic)

L/F/D/M is a purveyor of no-nonsense aural excursions. His latest release on CGI Records does nothing to disprove this wonderous fact. There's a straight-to-the-point attitude to the music which lets you know exactly what his intentions for your listening pleasure are in a matter of seconds.

If he were to be engaged in some kind of martial arts face-off this may be a bit of a problem - he lays his cards out on the table instantly and gives the game away to their opponents, allowing them to mount a counter attack pretty sharpish. However, this isn't martial arts, this is music - right? - and the security that these sounds offer your ears is as fulfilling as a cleansing cotton bud.

Go on, give it a spin. We think you'll like it

PREMIERE: L/F/D/M - Heavy Clouds

Single-sided 12" released late November

300 copies

DIAGO26

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DIAG026 Not Waving 'Get Serious'


Ecstatic offer a fascinating, often dizzying insight to the primitive industrial minimalism of Italian siblings, Giancarlo and Roberto Drago, a.k.a. The Tapes, via Selected Works 1982 - 1992 sourced from original tapes and pressed to vinyl for the first time ever. 

Following on from Ecstatic’s issue of “mail artist” Danielle Ciullini’s Domestic Exile Collected Works 82-86, this set surveys a blind-spot in most people’s knowledge of early ‘80s Italian underground music, framed against a backdrop of the Anni di Piombo, or Years of Lead - a period of domestic political turmoil between the late ‘60s and early ’80s - and the mushroom shadow of nuclear war. 

Like their international tape-scene allies, The Tapes reacted to this world thru a matrix of mono- synths, drum machines, microphones and 4-track recorders, mostly recording/experimenting ideas direct-to-tape in one take and making a virtue of their lo-fi set-up’s infidelities and imperfections - randomness and mistakes were embraced rather than discarded - whilst absorbing the counter-cultural influence of William Burroughs or Throbbing Gristle, and the sci-fi dystopia of J.G. Ballard and John Foxx. 

These 21 tracks, drawn from 10 different, limited tape releases, perfectly distill a wandering, weirdo spirit, ranging from the funereal swagger of Tanz Fabrik and the darkwave hip-thrust of The Day of Silence to freeform, motorik trajectories such as Time Out of Joint and singular enigmas like the Actress-esque bobble of The Wait and Falso Movimento B2’s weightless, hyaline spindles. 

Collected and compiled by Alessio Natalizia (aka Not Waving) and remastered by Matt Colton, Selected Works 1982 - 1992 represents a decade of modest but searching and instinctively grooving experimentation of the rarest, precious and compelling kind. 

As Giancarlo Drago explains: 
“The Tapes was an unplanned experience, an unplanned need to express myself Looking back 
on this music I wonder sometimes how I did it - the whole process from the concept to the completion. Everything I do now seems trivial and obvious and I just end up aborting the idea. And exactly for this reason I think that everything has its time, with a beginning and an end...”

ELP017
The Tapes 
Selected Works 1982 -1992
Ecstatic Recordings
2LP / Download

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The Tapes - Tanz Fabrik [ELP017]

Zipperface Not Waving Remix is Out Now: https://thepopgroup.lnk.to/ZipperfaceNotWavingRefix

The original 'Zipperface' single is available on the new album Honeymoon On Mars. Out Now: https://ThePopGroup.lnk.to/HoneymoonOnMars

"It was an honour to be able to work on the music of a band that meant so much in my life" Not Waving

One of the more prominent personalities to emerge on Powell’s Diagonal Records, Alessio Natalizia aka Not Waving has produced a relentless acid refix of The Pop Group’s first single 'Zipperface' from their new album 'Honeymoon On Mars'

Hailing from Italy but now based in London, Natalizia has been operating under the Not Waving guise since 2013, clocking up an impressive series of self-released cassettes and LPs on his own Ecstatic Recordings imprint. As well as applying himself to a continuing evolution in his own music, Natalizia has also displayed a specialist interest in obscurities from the 80s underground. This interest culminated in the 2013 release of 'Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988', an acclaimed compilation of proto-industrial and primitive electronic music that completely reset the consensus on Italian music in the 1980s. Whilst maintaining a strong release schedule on Ecstatic (Pye Corner Audio, Gavin Russom, The Tapes, Daniele Ciullini and more) this year Natalizia perfected Not Waving’s calling card with 'Animals', an LP that alternated between and often combined liminal ambience, industrial amplitude and incisive, malfunctioning body music. 

On the back of touring America with the Diagonal Records crew Not Waving completes a trilogy of Pop Group remixes after contributions from Hanz and Goth-Trad. Like Hanz and Goth-Trad it comes from a place of enduring respect for The Pop Group’s daring experimentalism. Yet unlike the efforts of Hanz and G-T, Zipperface isn’t led into shadowy echo chambers or sub-bass assault but carved up and weaponised into a barrage of convulsive computer glitch, muscular EBM and thuggish acid. 

The single is taken from the 10 track album produced by dub titan Dennis Bovell, who worked on their seminal debut album 'Y', and Hank Shocklee, producer of Public Enemy’s iconic first three albums as a member of the Bomb Squad. 'Honeymoon On Mars' was released through Freaks R Us on Friday October 28th 2016.

Zipperface (Not Waving Remix)

Not Waving - Populist EP [E026]

• Not Waving recoils back to his Ecstatic label after an ace LP + 12”s for Diagonal 
• Four tracks flirting with sleazy New Beat, nEuro EBM, Acid n0!se and deep-raved Italo
• Edition of 500 copies, initial 200 pressed up on coloured vinyl. Housed in fluoro green/hot red jacket
• Mastered and cut by Matt Colton @ Alchemy

Not Waving takes 2017 by the scruff with his Populist EP, consolidating the myriad stripes of his acclaimed Animals album in four peaktime hammers forged for darkrooms, basements and warehouses alike. 

If last year’s LP saw you thru from day-into-night, or vice-versa, this one is aimed squarely at the gurny hours of abandon in between, with ferocious acid lines and jabbing drums stripped down and strapped up to prompt reckless behaviour on the ‘floor.

Containing his first material written in the wake of Animals, the Populist EP is Alessio Natalizia a.k.a. Not Waving’s strongest dancefloor statement since the 1-sided Get Serious (2015) bullet. It finds him taking the opportunity to make straight-up bangers, rather than ‘songs’, which were thoroughly tried and tested over successive tours of the USA and countless shows in Europe too in the last 9 months.

Too Many Freaks is an anthem in waiting, harnessing a barely-hinged sense of chaos between its careening synth lead, acid squabble and velvet-clad kicks, before the dry-rutting jag and plaintive vox of Vibe Killer takes a dog-grip like This Heat meeting Tuning Circuits.

Top marks go to the check-your-stylus intro for Control Myself on the B-side, which holds its fizzy line into a fetid crevice of what sounds Russell Haswell ramping with Powell, whereas the crooked clampjaw groove of Ur Lucky Ur Still Alive pivots around a sample of a lone raver at Atonal, Berlin “who had no idea how she got there and what she did the night before”. A ruddy good night all-round, then?

Alessio Natalizia a.k.a. Not Waving co-owns the Ecstatic label alongside Sam Willis. Not Waving is widely regarded a connoisseur of Italian new wave and post-punk music - he compiled the Mutazione (Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988) set for Strut - and has issued a series of acclaimed, sought-after, playfully anachronistic twists on that sound since 2013.

Populist

NOT WAVING - TOO MANY FREAKS [E026]

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Neon was formed in Florence during the 1980s by Marcello Michelotti (aka neoONE, vox and synth), and Stefano Gasparinetti Fuochi (aka neoTWO, synth). Their first single "Informations of Death" encapsulated their visionary mix of gothic elements with new wave, synth pop, rock and dance. The single was originally released as a limited edition of 500 copies, with gatefold cover and poster insert, and later appeared on the band's only LP release, Rituals, released in 1985.

Alessio Natalizia of WALLS (Kompakt) has included "Informations of Death" in his connoisseur's selection of fringe Italian electronic music of the 80s on his Mutazione compilation, set to be released on Strut Records this August.


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