Filtro is the project of Angelo Bignamini and Luca De Biasi that lay down the drums, used in bands like The Great Sanuites and Satantango, and take modular synthesizers and tapes to create a work along the path of certain minimal techno which uses a cold sound, crafted tweaking knobs, to create abstract and clean musical structures. In this framework the use of tape is a disruption of this clear musical surface into a canvas with the insertion of a figure that is the concrete sound.
The first track of this tape, "Riflesso Part1", starts with a pulsating beat above a sort of granular noise that is gradually overwhelmed by radio voices when the beat starts to achieve a little complexity and the overall frame begins to blur. "Perno" is a shorter and minimal track based on the contrast between the minimal synthetic sounds and the field recordings. The second side of this tape begins with "Statore" where the field recordings act as a field of reality as the modular synthesizers seems the accompaniment of a movie scene. "Riflesso Part2" closes this release with the accomplishment of creating a real merge between the concrete and the synthetic sounds.
Even without moments of unusual originality, this debut shows a reasonable sense of form and a fluency in the use of their means. It could be a sure pick for fans of the genre.