Teresa Rampazzi, Gruppo NPS, Mario Bertoncini, Arke Sinth, Enore Zaffiri, Lorenzo Ferrero, Giovanni Sciarrino, Leonardo Gribaudo, SMET Studio Di Musica Elettronica Di Torino

condition (records/covers/box): M / M (still sealed) / EX+

Six records in one box, covering most of what Italian electronic music was doing away from the radio studios between the mid-sixties and the early seventies. Die Schachtel put E 2 together in an edition of 36 copies. It holds five Silver Series LPs that had been sold out for years: two by Teresa Rampazzi (Musica Endoscopica and Immagini per Diana Baylon), the work of the Padua collective Gruppo NPS, Mario Bertoncini's Arpe Eolie and the only document of Arke Sinth. The sixth disc is the first reissue of Musica Elettronica / Computer Music 1966-1972 by SMET, the Turin studio founded by Enore Zaffiri, with pieces by Lorenzo Ferrero, Giovanni Sciarrino and Leonardo Gribaudo.

The map is easy to read. In Padua, Rampazzi had turned NPS into a female-only collective by 1970, and two of her students, Giovanni De Poli and Alvise Vidolin, went on to play EMS Synthi A and organ with Arke Sinth in 1973. In Turin, Zaffiri held to a strict, almost ideological faith in electronic control. Bertoncini, for his part, let the wind play his harps. Put side by side, these records tell a different story from the usual one centred on the Milan Fonologia, in which provincial back rooms did much of the risky work.