Maurizio Bianchi

Edition limited to 300 copies, red vinyl, in full colour gatefold sleeve,  reproducing various graphic materials from the original cassette edition. Mectpyo / Blut is a foundational work in the canon of industrial and experimental electronics, created by the enigmatic Italian artist Maurizio Bianchi (also known as M.B.). Originally released in the early 1980s, these recordings stand as some of the most uncompromising and influential documents of post-industrial sound. Across two LPs, Bianchi constructs a world of cold, clinical electronics, using primitive synthesizers and tape machines to evoke the sterile horror of a medical laboratory or a post-human future.

The music is relentless: pulsing, mechanical rhythms, sheets of white noise, and disembodied voices drift through a landscape that is both hypnotic and deeply unsettling. There are echoes of contemporaries such as Whitehouse, SPK, and Nurse With Wound, but Bianchi’s vision is singular—obsessive, methodical, and utterly devoid of sentimentality. The textures are raw, the structures minimal, and the atmosphere oppressive, yet there is a strange beauty in the austerity and focus of the work.

Mectpyo / Blut has been cited as an influence by generations of experimental musicians, from power electronics to ambient industrial. This reissue on Planam/Marquis Records restores the original artwork and includes extensive liner notes that contextualize Bianchi’s legacy within the broader history of European experimental music. For collectors and new listeners alike, this double album is an essential piece of sonic history—one that continues to resonate in the darkest corners of contemporary sound.