๐๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ต. 3 (2011 - 2025)
With limited hindsight, these years are difficult to encapsulate. In a post-sampling environment, referentiality deepens; artists are able to deploy existing worlds as a new kind of primitive, wringing affect from abstraction. Overtones from past and present meld into a rich and resonant whole.
Old luminaries reappear, among them Walter Maioli, Roberto Musci, and Gigi Masin, with the latter producing the finest work of his four-decade career. Donato Dozzy continues a prolific arc begun in the middle aughts, shining both independently and in collaboration. And newcomers like Caterina Barbieri and Marta De Pascalis get repeat features in this third installment, their budding discographies replete with both homages and provocations.
If we are to attempt to essentialize Italian ambient music, we might say something about unabashed sentimentality, or unflagging eclecticism, or garbo. But this is to generalize where particularities contain all the richness.
โ AF
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| Artist | Song | Album | Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donato Dozzy | Moonlight | Enjoy The Silence Vol. 2 | 2011 | Mule Musiq |
| รe | uncertainty, green | inner frost | 2015 | Unseed |
| รe | charm, hanami | inner frost | 2015 | Unseed |
| FaravelliRatti | And lacrosse sticks | Lieu | 2012 | Boring Machines |
| Heroin In Tahiti | Death Surf | Death Surf | 2012 | Boring Machines |
| รe + Enrico Coniglio | sastrugi / at the gates of | inner frost | 2013 | taรขlem |
| Donato Dozzy | Vaporware 05 | Plays Bee Mask | 2013 | Spectrum Spools |
| Tempelhof & Gigi Masin | Red Venus | Hoshi | 2014 | Hell Yeah Recordings |
| Tempelhof & Gigi Masin | The Dwarf | Hoshi | 2014 | Hell Yeah Recordings |
| Donato Dozzy & Nuel | aqua 5 | The Aquaplano Sessions | 2014 | Spectrum Spools |
| Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy | Starcloud | Sintetizzatrice | 2015 | Spectrum Spools |
| Voices From The Lake | S.T. (VFTL Rework) | Voices From The Lake | 2012 | Prologue |
| Gianluca Petrella | Balletto Meccanico | 103 Ep | 2015 | Electronique.it Records |
| Deison & Mingle | Optokinetic Reflex (Glassy Eyes) | Everything Collapse(d) | 2014 | Aagoo Records / REV. Lab. |
| Marta De Pascalis | Sleeping Without Silence | Quitratue | 2014 | Self-released |
| Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy | Parola | Sintetizzatrice | 2015 | Spectrum Spools |
| Marta De Pascalis | A | Anzar | 2016 | The Tapeworm |
| Caterina Barbieri | Gravity That Binds | Patterns of Consciousness | 2017 | Important Records |
| Voices From The Lake | Dreamscape Generation | Live at MAXXI | 2015 | Editions Mego |
| Heroin In Tahiti | III | Remoria | 2017 | Soave |
| Luca Ballerini | Indigo Take 4 | โฆAt The Ambassador Club (Indigo Session) | 2018 | Ambiwa Records |
| Silvia Kastel | The Closer The Stranger | Air Lows | 2018 | Blackest Ever Black |
| Caterina Barbieri | Arrows of Time | Ecstatic Computation | 2019 | Editions Mego |
| Donato Dozzy | 9 | 12H | 2019 | Presto!? Records |
| Giuseppe Ielasi | 08 | its appearance, reflected by three copies | 2021 | 901 Editions |
| Donato Dozzy | 6 | 12H | 2019 | Presto!? Records |
| Grand River | All There Now | Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes | 2020 | Editions Mego |
| Marta De Pascalis | Argentea | Sonus Ruinae | 2020 | Morphine Records |
| Giovanni Di Domenico | Kyu-u-ri at 3:30 | Musica Per Insiemi | 2021 | Black Sweat Records |
| Canva6 | Raging Euphoria | Cco2 | 2023 | Presto!? Records |
| Giuseppe Ielasi | 04 | Down On Darkened Meetings | 2023 | Black Truffle |
| Marta De Pascalis | voXCS60x | Sky Flesh | 2023 | Light-Years |
| Walter Maioli | Campane Degli Angeli | Caverne Sonore | 2024 | Black Sweat Records |
| Gigi Masin and Rod Modell | Red Hair Girl At The Boat Stop | Red Hair Girl At Lighthouse Beach | 2024 | 13 |
| Roberto Laneri | S/T | Magister Perotinus Meets The Jedi Masters | 2024 | Black Sweat Records |
| Roberto Musci | Embryonic Goodbye | Goodbye Monsters | 2024 | Soave |
| Giovanni Di Domenico | Mind Soil Pt. 2 | Superlike | 2023 | Black Sweat Records |
| Up To 23 | Skyclear | Hydor LP | 2024 | Silentes |
| Cortex of Light | Cobalt (Turtle Shell) | ILLUMINOTECNICA | 2025 | 3XL |
| Canva6 | Curving Shapes | Ten Minutes to Midnight | 2022 | Presto!? Records |
| Various โ Gigi Masin | Lumen 06 | a sad song for A. | 2025 | Silentes |
| Various โ Fabio Orsi | The Last Dream Before Life | a sad song for A. | 2025 | Silentes |
| Andrea Bellucci & Giulio Aldinucci | If Only I Could Remember Clearly | Slow Dances and Still Memories | 2025 | Silentes |