★Plastica Marella
Mongoholy-Nazy/ Thalidomusic For Young Babies
**Limited Edition Gatefold 2LP on transparent wax** Dead at 30 - a candle burned at both ends, consumed by drugs and relentless creative fire, Stefano Tamburini is among the great lost figures of Italian Avant-Garde. Legendary for his contributions to counter-cultural publishing - a writer, graphic artist, comics author and magazine publisher, Tamburini was equally the glue which bound many of the wildest voices of Post-Punk - Mars, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, in a lineage stretc…
Tapes Amateurs
Rome. This century. Lola Hudson and Gloria Farr, two artist/performers moving in the darkest circles of the most pagan city in ancient history, decide to burst onto the scene and break the cultural hymen that human history has been creating over the last millennia. The vagina has returned to free souls of the dictatorship of the dance of the Father: patriarchs have been attempting to annihilate women’s sexuality since the dawn of time. Destroy the image and you shall control the story. Go …
Quinto Quarto
Senastional new full-lenght album from this legendary band, Blow Up record of the Month! Rome is a city of oxymora. An antithesis of History and stories. A perennial contradiction between cement and people. Between freedom and reason. Between sex and destructive desires. The city's inhabitants build their reality out of the imagination of an entire population, almost as though they were a polycephalic slime, a miry, unicellular mould capable of accomplishing extraordinary wonders, almost on…
Pape Satan
**Very last copies, still sealed, light seamsplit on top** A masterpiece. Absolute. There are certain records that burst into the cultural mechanisms of "modernity" of each period, which mould fashions and manners, styles of life and shape the thought of what's contemporary.These records, and the music they contain, transform themselves into signals, points of arrival, undisputed targets for the youth cultures they meet. They are points of reference for the reading of sound periods. Others inste…
Gustoforte (La Prima Volta)
Seemingly born out of the fervent experimentalism of the Italia early industrial scene, this clear vinyl reissue of the highly rare first album by GustoForte (originally released in 1984) beautifully skew mix of improvisation, lo-fi tapework and stretched, ghostly songform actually had more in common with maverick like This Heat and Faust. Outstanding! "Possibly on of the Thirty years ahead of everything you listen to today and everything you will listen to tomorrow. Rome was straight out of a d…
Souvenir Of Italy
A lost gem from the mid 80s in the best italian tradition, BlowUp reissue of the month: to describe GustoForte’s Picture disc “Souvenir of Italy - La merda che fuma”, to give some dialect shape to the electro-magnetic throbbings that come out from the record , to try drawing, with grammatic help also that more basic, a logic or a descriptive way, it’s complex.And not because exists a multi-shape objective difficulty but rather the concreteness it’s impossible to approach to GustoForte: sandpaper…