Tiger Weeds Greece Vinilo y CD

Review: Teslasonic is the solo project of Gianluca Bertasi and now he offers up an eclectic mix of electro, Italo, acid, downtempo and atmospheric sounds on his new EP, 'Libero Pensiero', which also comes with an entrancing remix by DJ Overdose. Translating to "free thought," Libero Pensiero brings that mantra to his music as he approaches each of its six tracks from a different perspective so they all stand alone yet form a unified, expressive whole. This is Teslasonic's second release on Tiger Weeds following his contribution to the label's first VA compilation and it's another one steeped in quality.

Review: What is retrofuturism, and why is it so important to electro artists? Perhaps it has something to do with the imposition of the past onto the future and vice versa, with the aim of producing an implicit social commentary: either suggesting that certain given visions of the future are retrograde, or that our view of the past is shaped by what we imagine the future will be like. Whatever the case, producer Zobol aims to demonstrate, not tell, their answer to the question, with four neat new electro ones. All coming in the form of functional, floor-ready cascady flappers and snappers, Zobol's choice of titles for the remainders - 'Hyperfocus', 'Inter-City Travel', 'Fight Or Flight' and 'Dread' - seem to get at both the technological joys and biopsychic anxieties of the oncoming future, and/or over-fixating on it for want of the present. 'Fight Or Flight' is particularly impressive with its fabric-tearing transitional sounds and candid, apocalyptically sweeping Reeses, which do indeed activate the parasympathetic nervous system.