A Colder Consciousness, the radio show curated and presented by Flora Pitrolo since 2011 on London’s Resonance FM and on Skopje’s Kanal 103, has also begun putting out archival releases via it’s label ACC Records. While last year’s inaugural effort featured the 80’s era Macedonian synth-pop band Bastion, ACC Records newest offering is from the Turin-based Italian experimental electronic outfits Novostj and DsorDNE. Both groups were centered around the vocalist Roberta Ongaro and the synth/bass player Marco Milanesio, as well as additional band members, with the group Novostj (1983-1984) eventually evolving into the audio/visual project DsorDNE (1987-1988).
ACC Record’s upcoming release was restored from the original masters of the tape “Novostj/DsorDNE 1983-1988,” which first went out on handmade copies via the Italian label HAX in 1988. The label’s updated edition has been remixed and remastered for this 2019 reissue which is set for release on March 4th. Describing their efforts as “post-punk heritage translated into concise electro-songs,” Novostj and DsorDNE weave together the urge to sonically confront Europe’s sociopolitical realities in the 80s with an electro-futurist bent. Riding the era’s zeitgeist of synthesizer driven music and the cultural strides of punk, Novostj and DsorDNE would skirt genres like synth-wave, noise, and proto-techno–while always seeming to keep their creative approach experimental.
Below you can watch a video for DsorDNE’s pulsing and gothy track “Disordine“–the cut which birthed their new name at the time. The visuals were created by Flora Pitrolo for the reissue and they feature the London-based avant performance duo New Noveta.
Novostj:
Roberta Ongaro – Voice
Massimo Ongaro – Bass
Danilo Beltrame – Guitar
Marco Milanesio – Synth, bass, voice
All lyrics by Marco Milanesio
DsorDNE:
Roberta Ongaro – Voice
Luciano Gelormino – Synths and programming
Marco Milanesio – Synths, programming, bass
Danilo Beltrame – Guitar
Giuseppe Villani – Theatrical actions
Cristiana Bauducco – Video and slides
All lyrics by Marco Milanesio
A Colder Consciousness Info:
ACC Radio broadcasts on FM, in London and Skopje, since 2011.
SKOPJE: First Sundays 22.00-24.00 MK on Kanal 103 (103 on FM, radiostream.neotel.mk/kanal103 online).
LONDON: Resonance 104.4 FM fourth Tuesday of the month, 20.00 – 21.00 GMT on Resonance FM (104.4 on FM, https://resonancefm.com/ online).
ACC episode archive since the show’s inception in 2011: mixcloud.com/acolderconsciousness/
ACC Words is an archive of music writing, mostly originally published on Juno Plus (RIP): https://accwords.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @colderlondon
