Audiopile Review: Madteo returns after a whopping four years since his last full length, not to mention an equal amount of time gone by with nary a new 12” in sight, a lengthy break for a producer who has had a steady and reliable release schedule since arriving back in 2007. But the Italian-born, NYC-based producer has clearly been pouring the time and effort into this towering double LP, arriving at the summit of his powers after years dishing zonked cassettes, sidewinding 12”s and genre-defying full lengths for the likes of Wania, DDS, Origin Peoples, and Sähkö Recordings. With his usual “rip it up and start again” post-punk-esque flair, Madteo continues to funnel years of dance music into the grinder, cutting up rhythms of dancehall, hip-hop and dub into his soupy mix of gritty grooves and decayed infrastructures. Deleriously off-kilter but ceaselessly grinding forward, Madteo’s sci-fi-tinged sputter of glitchy beats and a cunning control of buzzing textures buck all prevailing trends as he further solidifies his signature sound. A true one-of-a-kind.

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Madteo is one of the great eccentric visionaries of Electronic Music and his new album Misto Atmosferico E Ad Azione Diretta on Unsure once more happens to be a mind-bending piece of art. Misto Atmosferico E Ad Azione Diretta shifts between focused gritty grooves and the long freeform associative adventures that you haven’t heard before, never static, sometimes overwhelming, always on edge.
The opener Cans People is an archaic rave monster, To Know Those Who is non-linear dub techno, Nocturnal Palates expands the Filter House universe and Rave Nite Itz All Right hits you hard and strange (yet subtle, in a way). The last two tracks then let loose; Madteo manipulates time, space and sounds to create the psychedelic secrets of Luglio Ottantotto. And Emo G (Sticky Wicket) explores the outskirts not only of House or Techno or whatever but music in general, a 15-min-trip through the low frequencies, the rumble, the dark hearts and the enchantment. Breathtaking. Bring The Voodoo Down.