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Two types of electronic music battle on this page: the smooth and soothing v. the jagged and challenging.  2017 was an especially good year for electronic music, as new genres seemed to develop before they could be named.  Industrial music made a comeback in an array of new forms.  Those willing to venture beyond the safe environs of EDM found a remarkable spurt of growth in the alleyways.  Yet…

Deison | Mingle ~ Tilaventum

One needs a poet’s heart to appreciate the wrapped gift of Tilaventum: a stone from the river included with every physical purchase.  Mine is a perfectly rounded skipping stone, so I’ll need to resist the urge to try it in my own sea.  An instant connection is formed across bodies of water, across continents.  The photos show that many stones are ringed; my grandfather once told me that such…

After crossing wastelands lost in oblivion (Everything Collapse[d], Aagoo / Rev. Lab., 2014), and being skeptically moved by listening to pulsations of a weak life (Weak Life, Aagoo, 2015), Cristiano Deison and Andrea Gastaldello (aka Mingle) are arriving at their final destination, Innersuface, the last stop on their journey. They suddenly fall into a hole and are trapped in a slimy pit overflowing with mud and industrial liquids. Everything is dense and oppressive. Their physical movement stops, the chaos in their head remains, they look around and everything is irreversibly changed. And while looking at the road they have just walked along, they glimpse the edge of a forest brimming with life, with its appearance unchanged over time...will it stay like this forever?

Created, recorded and mixed between December 2015 and April 2016, at Mingle's Tower Home Studio and Deison's 1st Floor Studio, Innersurface continues the perfect blend of Deison and Mingle sounds: drones, field recordings and processed loops superimposed with disturbed rhythms, distorted beats and electronic processing. As always, the electronics are dirty and extremely evocative, sounds that we have become accustomed to.

Mingle piano on “It Was...”.

Nicola Manzan violin on “It Was...”

Mastering: James Plotkin

Produced by Andrea Gastaldello, Cristiano Deison and ST.AN.DA.

"Tiliaventum" CD/Box (Loud!/Final Muzik, 2017)

da un'idea di Sandra Tonizzo suoni: Deison e Mingle contributi: Tony Longheu, Matteo Dainese (il Cane), all my faith lost..., Alberto Novello (JesterN), Maba (Len), The Haunting Green, XoX e Anna Comand.