MIKI Vinilo y CD

Review: ***B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition***


Volume One of a label retrospective of pioneering early 90s Prog House label Interactive Test Compiled by Alex from Utopia Records and enigmatic Interactive Test founder Franco Falsini. Falsini, responsible for many of the underground classics on the label he founded in Florence in 1991 was first known for his 70s Italian Prog / Cosmic group Sensations Fix. A trailblazer who continued to push the boundaries of electronic music two decades later with Interactive Test, accompanied by the up-and-coming talents of Trance hero DJ Miki the Dolphin, his brother Riccardo and an host of cult Italian music producers. Here we start with 5 tracks from the archive, all highly collectable, remastered for DJs and psychedelic music enthusiastic alike from the best sources possible. Authentic and original dance sounds still hitting the spot in our times.

Review: A provider of top-notch Italian techno sounds since the mid 1990s, Michele Zamboni AKA Miki has long been a reliable source of forthright, mind-mangling dancefloor cuts. Here he makes his belated bow on Better sound, delivering an EP that boasts both brand-new material and freshly re-edited cuts from his mid-90s work as Major Hypnotic Key Institute (M.H.K.I). The fresh Miki jams appear on the A, with the melodic, psychedelic and early progressive house-influenced 'Mathematic' being joined by the jacking, TB-303-laden peak-time techno sounds of 'Fix Toroide'. For the M.H.K.I side, we get a fresh take on 1996 progressive trance number 'Spiritual Exit', a trippy, mid-tempo treat laden with squelchy bass and winding acid lines, and the similarly inclined - both more tribalistic and bouncy - 'J Experience'.