Gabe Gurnsey
Diablo

Repress! Deep downtempo acid trance trips from OK EG on Melbourne's Wax'O Paradiso. Don't miss.

Rare 1978 album from one of the pioneers of Italian electronic music, and new age visionary Il Guardiano Del Faro aka Federico Monti Arduini. Holds the sublime mellow Balearic cut 'Lady Moon'.Viewed as a precursor of New Age sound art, Arduini was one of the first producers in Italy to use the Moog synthesiser, he was also an early adopter of the tradition among electronic producers to use a moniker to disguise his identity. Il Guardiano Del Faro (translated as “the guardian of lighthouse”) is a nod to the small Italian fishing town Porto Santo Stefano, where Arduini created his studio in the mid-70s.He produced a number of albums from this seaside idyl ofelectronic instruments and tape recorders, but Oasis stands out from the pack. Released in 1978, it became a cult classic for its experimental sounds and emotional expressions. Spiritual synth sounds cover the album in a dreamy haze, oscillating between ambient and psychedelic. Sparing deployment of the Roland rhythm box gives dance floor favourites ‘Disco Divina’ and ‘Oasis’ touches of space disco.

Two dubstep pioneers at the top of their game. The deadly concision, the rhythmic punch and dramatic timing, the spry, side-to-side detailing of a cavernous stage, the crisp-biscuit vocal sampling and Middle Eastern percussion — together, their sound signatures are not so much totalled as squared. Truly an album, the music is multi-levelled — dark as anything at times, but engrossingly varied and emotionally shaded, always on the move.

Fortuna Records reissue of a mid-80s early electronica LP by keyboardist Raviv Gazit. Composed entirely on the Synclavier synthesiser in the basement of the Tel-Aviv University in 1985. Gazit was ahead of his time composing cold yet blissful electronic music for film and theatre which he later released as an album. Holds the killer oddball jam 'Room 308'. Check!

Classic 2nd album (1995). 2021 repress on 180g vinyl.