This is a producer from Italy named Alessandro Zoffoli, who also goes by ‘ToffoloMuzik’. I don’t know how his music found me, but it scratches an itch.

He has a new album coming out in June called Dromomania, and there are two singles available now. One is up in the header, here’s the other:

The music is too interesting to ignore. This isn’t Tycho or Thievery Corporation, you can’t work to it (at least I couldn’t). There are so many interesting elements throughout each track demanding your focus.

The music videos are fantastic, I don’t know why he doesn’t have a dedicated YouTube channel for them. They often seem to be made up of archival footage from the place he did the field recording. He also posts long notes with the videos to articulate the history of the place and the cultural context for it. Click through to any of them on YouTube to read the description, it’s worth it.

The songs on his debut album Rotte Interrotte (from 2021) are based around recordings he made in Morocco, Vietnam, Peru, Cambodia, Colombia, India, Guatemala, Myanmar – and apparently the album itself was a lockdown escapism project.

Here’s from his Bandcamp, I can’t pretend to know what some of these terms mean:

Field recordings are the starting point of each song, while the digital languages of Future Garage and post-dubstep are the means of recalculation to translate traditions and travel experiences into music.

Future Garage and post-dubstep are new genres for me, but it doesn’t matter. The music is captivating and meditative. I love it.

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