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Artist: Federico Gandin
Title: Donʼt Be Alone
Label: Opilec Music
Release: 8th May 2012
Cat. No.: OPCM 12 032
Format: Digital

Ahead of his debut LP, Legion of The Lost Dreamsʼ for Italyʼs Opilec Music, Federico Gandin
delivers the deep techno of ʻDonʼt Be Aloneʼ backed with remixes from Roberto Bardini.
Since being picked up by I-Robots, the Opilec Music owner, Federico Gandin has released a handful of
brilliant deep house and techno EPs as well as featured on Movement Sound Recordings compilations
and Derrick Mayʼs ʻHeartbeat Vol.2ʼ. His background as a pioneering electronic music record store
(Deep Zone) owner in Italy and his love of European electronica, 60ʼs rock, bossanova, Chicago House
and Detroit techno bleed through all of Gandinʼs work which makes for music with real depth.
The closing track of his LP, ʻLegion of Lost Dreamsʼ, ʻDonʼt be Aloneʼ is an emotive, spirted affair that
develops a nagging synth and potent, rattling drums into something as hyponitc as it is stirring.
Turinʼs Robert Bardini delivers three remixes that showcase the Plastic City and Eclipse Music
producerʼs adroit touch. His ʻDeepestʼ version plunges the originalʼs sensibilities into a melancholic,
dubbed out groove underpinned with a warming Reece bassline while his “mixʼ version brings the bass
to the fore in an increasingly urgent and punchy interpretation. Bardiniʼs remixes end with a ʻtechʼ mix
which ramps up the energy with a staccato bassline while still allowing the feel of Gandinʼs original
vision to sit alongside pulsing stabs and an insistent groove.
Closing with a ʻNaked Editʼ, a stripped back version of the original, and a video edit which accompanies
an impressive visual interpretation from Thomas Tinker and Andrea Zirio, ʻDonʼt Be Aloneʼ is a fitting pre-cursor to a brilliant debut LP from Gandin.

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