The Rome collective whose roots trace back to the city’s heady ’90s techno era speak with Richard Brophy.
TeslaSonic is a collaboration between Minimal Rome founders Valerio ‘Heinrich Dressel’ Lombardozzi and Gianluca ‘Feedback’ Bertasi and the project’s latest release is apparently an “electronic ode to electricity, its applications and its revolutionary place in the history of mankind”. Naming the project after the Croatian inventor of electricity and using technical terms and concepts as inspiration for track titles shows that the pair are serious about the project’s provenance, but the reality is that Electrical Oscillator Activity succeeds because of the strength of the music rather than such a high concept.
Heinrich Dressel sounds like he should be hidden away in a laboratory working on a top-secret astrophysics project, but in reality he’s an Italian electro producer whose real name is Valerio Lombardozzi. Responsible for an impressive six albums so far, Dressel is most closely associated with his Minimal Rome label, although he traces his roots way back to the early ’90s illegal rave scene in the Italian capital.
Solar One Music, the label co-run by German electro connoisseur The Exaltics, is set to release a bumper 22-track compilation next month – and we’re premiering Heinrich Dressel’s impressive contribution.
Italian label Mannequin have announced plans to release Sighing Melodies Thru The Graves, a mini album from compatriot and Minimal Rome label boss Heinrich Dressel.