Label: Luce Sia – 082 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, white vinyl Country: Switzerland Released: 2021 Genre: Electronic Style: Synthwave, Electro, EBM
Tracklist
A1 Doppio Al Cubo A2 Splendor A3 Test A4 Gesti A5 Gigolo B1 Ditalia B2 Una Sera Diversa B3 Automa B4 Vedo L'Alba Nelle Bolle B5 Buonanotte
Limited edition of 240 copies on white vinyl with gatefold sleeve, insert with lyrics English translation and postcard with download code.
Riccardo Bianchi: voice Massimo Magrini: music
Pictures and graphics: Martina Ridondelli Wood sculptures: Riccardo Bianchi
Recorded in Tuscany in 2020
Massimo Magrini has been active for many years in the underground electronic music with several projects, of which the best known is Bad Sector. With this project he has released many albums on CDs, vinyls, cassettes etc.
Riccardo Bianchi is an eclectic artist who has always ranged in different fields of expression including painting, sculpture, poetry and song. He is currently active as a singer in several Tuscan bands, including Unit Suono di Base, Idiotoma etc.
In 2020 the two artists from Lucca decided together to re-boot DERMA, their joint project from 1995 that abrasively combined voice and electronics. If the first demotape on cassette, 1995, was an acid collection of minimal analog loops combined with vocal inserts of various kinds, with "signore e signori, buonanotte" the duo created a sort of minimal synthwave sung in Italian, combining sound references of the 70s and 80s (transposed by Massimo in 2020) with the intricate lyrics of Riccardo.
The record was released on August 23, 2021, on 33 rpm + digital, by the Swiss label Luce Sia, in an elegant white vinyl edition with gatefold cover in special paper (including an english translation sheet).
MB / Bad Sector / Sigillum S – Endometrio / Endometrio De-Composto (2016)
Label: Old Europa Cafe – OECD 227 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered CD Country: Italy Released: Sep 2016 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Noise, Glitch
Tracklist
CD1 Endometrio 1-1 Primo Ciclo (Anatomico): Endometrio (1980) 23:34 1-2 Secondo Ciclo (Fisiologico): Endometrio (1981) 23:37
CD2 Endometrio De-Composto 2-1 Primo Ciclo (Automatico): Sincrono / Asincrono (2016) 6:15 Remix – Bad Sector 2-2 Secondo Ciclo (Fisiologico): Siderale / Materico (2016) 25:05 Remix – Sigillum S
notes Liner Notes [CD1] – Maurizio Bianchi Issued in a Digipak.
Liner notes (translated): "Towards the end of 1982, I was experiencing a moment of creative stagnation, and in order not to run the risk of repeating myself with sterile modular secretions, I came up with an arterial idea: to filter my old recordings through the aid of a mucous AIWA echo machine, and so I set about processing the sounds, transforming them into something completely new, so I coined the term 'bionic music', composed of concrete sounds recycled with electronic sprays... And as a predominant theme I used medical syncretism to ascertain the synthesis of the physiological with the unnatural. Thus was born the experimental cavity of 'ENDOMETRY'."
First self-produced release on LP by MB in 1982. OEC 2016 re-release.
Liner notes (original): "Verso la fine del 1982, stavo vivendo un momento di stasi creativa, e per non correre il rischio di ripetermi con sterili secrezioni modulari, mi venne un'idea arteriosa: filtrare antiche mie registrazioni attraverso l'ausilio di una mucotica echo.machine Aiwa, e così mi accinsi ad elaborare i suoni, trasformandoli in qualcosa di completamente inedito, così coniai il termine "musica bionica", composta da suoni concreti riciclati con irrorazioni elettroniche… E come tema predominante usai il sincretismo medicale per appurare la sintesi del fisiologico con l'innaturale. Così nacque la cavità sperimentale di "ENDOMETRIO"."
Prima uscita autoprodotta in LP da MB nel 1982. Ri-edizione OEC 2016.
Label: Luce Sia – 090 Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition Country: Switzerland Released: 2022 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Industrial, Dark Ambient
Tracklist
A1 Yela Pt. 1 A2 Yela Pt. 2
During 2021 I recovered several recordings dating back to the period 1995-2001. Some of them are part of the Xela recording sessions. I, therefore, decided to remix and extend them with more contemporary sounds, to create a sort of temporal bridge between those years and 2021-2022. The result, Yela, can be considered Xela’s companion. Massimo Magrini
The CD was issued in a 6-panel foldout Digifile. Limited edition of 123 hand-numbered copies (on backside of the Digifile). The CD version contains no track titles, the digital version on Bandcamp states track titles as "01, 02, ... 11, 12"
In the two years 2018-2019, I carried out special recording sessions in the cities of Lucca and Pisa, strolling through the streets with equipment capable of capturing the surrounding electromagnetic perturbations (ELF, VLF), due to the massive presence of electrical and electronic devices, in which we are constantly and unconsciously immersed. Listening to these sounds live was a very interesting experience, the system used was able to reveal an otherwise invisible (indeed, inaudible) urban sound environment. The increased, artificial sensory capacity was able to provide different connotations and new levels of reading to the surrounding space.
During 2020-2021, when the memory of the experience had already been defined and reshaped, I decided to reassemble and rearrange these sounds in more defined soundscapes, avoiding the temptation to introduce artificial elements extraneous to the basic concept, like rhythms and melodic inserts. These definitive tracks are now collected in this work.
First time Transponder was released as CD-r on Blade Records in 99, now the album is again accessible, in a new format and with additional, exclusive compositions of that period - "Yst" and "Waal"!
Track 1 from "Slam Bam Thank You Ma'am" comp. cass (Apathia, 1995). Tracks 2, 4, 5, 9 from "Ze" cass (Slaughter, 1994). Tracks 3, 7 from "Prayer Of Mankind" comp. 2xcass (SSSM, 1997). Track 8 from "Pressurized Music" cass (Freedom From, 1998). Tracks 6, 10 previous unreleased (March 1999). Tracks 11 & 12 are bonus tracks, recorded in 1998, reshaped and remixed in 2010.
Anthology: A complete compendium of the project in 25 years of activity, in a selection of tracks from 1997 to 2022, remastered in a 3 LP edition Cover [Cover Paintings By] [Uncredited] – Francesco Barbieri Performer [Uncredited], Remastered By [Uncredited] – Massimo Magrini
