Die Form - "Are You Before"
Neon - "Informations Of Death"
Gaznevada - "Going Underground"
Daniele Ciullini & De Rezke - "Ancona Icone"
001011000010011 Cancer - "Naonian Style"
Victrola - "Maritime Tatami"
Laxative Souls - "Niccolai"
Winter Light - "Always Unique (Kill Myself 2)"
Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici - "Back & Forth"
L'Ultimo Arcano - "1984-1985"
ATROX - "Against The Odds"
Doris Norton - "Norton Apple Software"
Kirlian Camera - "Edges" (original version)
Spirocheta Pergoli - "Romero's Living Dead"
La Bambola Del Dr Caligari - "Deep Skanner"
Pale TV - "The Livid Triptych"
Plath - "I Am Strange Now"
La Maison - "Critical Situation"
Suicide Dada - "Waiting For September"
The Tapes - "Nervous Breakdown"
Review: Strut's recent foray into the world of industrial, EBM and new-wave with Trevor Jackson's superb Metal Dance compilation (the follow-up to which is due in September) has clearly given them a passion for the subject. Here, they allow Walls guitarist/producer Alessio Natalizia to curate a two-disc wander through Italy's hitherto under-explored 1980s new wave scene. It's a bit of an eye-opener, if truth be told, full of cold-wave, synth-wave and electronic oddities. Given the quality of the material, you don't have to look far for gems; check, for example, the discordant, dubwise oddness of 2+2=5's "Jacho's Story", the droning synths and backwards tape loops of L'Ultimo Arcano's bizarre "1984-85" and the wide-eyed bliss of ATROX's "Against The Odds". And that's just for starters. Stunning stuff, as usual.
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