D'ARCANGELO Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Veteran Italian duo D'arcangelo return with a new EP for Aussie label A Colourful Storm. Across the five tracks featured on the Arium EP, Fabrizio and Marco present their singular take on IDM that earned them several releases on Aphex Twin's seminal Rephlex label. There's the introspective, mesmerising bliss of opener 'Godsonix' plus the emotive 'Spacing Out', as well as the artificial intelligence of the title track and the visceral beats of closing track 'Familiarity' rounding out another terrific release by the Roman brothers.

Review: Earlier this year, Italian electronica veterans Fabrizio and Marco D'Arcangelo returned to action with a 12" on Happy Skull that marked their first new material for three years. We're told there's more to come, but here they revisit their past, delivering a compilation that includes their sought-after 1996 debut EP for Rephlex in its entirety, plus two fresh cuts (opener "Main Theme" and closer "Wane (Reprise)" and a swathe of tracks recorded in the late '90s for an aborted follow-up to their lauded first 12". Heavily influenced by Aphex Twin, industrial techno, twisted ambient and what would later become known as "Braindance", the material remains breathlessly imaginative and otherworldly all these years on. If anything, it's a master class in cutting edge electronica.

Review: A newfound interest around Italian duo Fabrizio and Marco D'Arcangelo has resulted in releases on Spain's Analogical Force, The Kelly Twins' Happy Skull and a new one for Solvent and Lowfish's Suction based out of Toronto - who consider II as 'an imaginary sequel to the duo's classic 1996 debut EP on Aphex Twin's legendary, now-defunct Rephlex Records. That release was also reissued on the label last year. From the industrial edged electronica of "Callying Sybil" which calls to mind early Autechre, the jagged and angular "Qabbalahwhich" honed in on the emerging sounds of drum 'n' bass at the time, to the three installments of "Diagram" that hone into aesthetics of an even earlier period, namely the '80s.