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Deca

Mass

Federico De Caroli’s Deca project has been waving the flag for Italy’s ambient and mystique concrete scene since the mid 1980’s. Mass, as the name curiously implies, is a rip-roaring fest of a journey through the deepest and most cavernous of coldwave sounds. With its high-speed pace on the drums and a grainy, grey-scaled coating to round it off, it feels like rave music way before the term was coined. Proto-techno also doesn’t it do any justice because tunes like “Inseminoid” or “The Door” go much further than that, heading way out into unknown territories which then became second nature to artists like AFX about a decade later.