ANT049 - Somewhere in Berlin - Luigi Madonna & Alberto Pascual
Markantonio’s Analytictrail imprint drops, ‘Somewhere In Berlin’ this July, from Luigi
Madonna & Alberto Pascual, comprising four original tracks.
Italian, Luigi Madonna & Spaniard, Alberto Pascual are a well-respected duo on the underground
circuit who between them can boast releases for the likes of Drumcode, !Organism, Plus8 and
Material. Here the pair return to Napoli’s Analytictrail imprint, one of the driving forces in the Italian
Techno with releases dating back to 2001.

Title track ‘Somewhere In Berlin’ opens the release here, a moody, brooding Techno cut employing
earth shattering drums, raw distorted bass hooks, heavily reverberated, off-kilter synth stabs and
hypnotic low-end tones.

Up next is ‘Gruv’, embracing a similar aesthetic but tipping the focus towards
a straight drum-driven cut, while bulbous sub hits and swirling atmospherics add depth the
background.
On the latter half of the release things kick off with ‘Globo’, the duo takes things deeper here, opting
for sparse, low-slung drums and a classic dub chord, these elements run for the duration of the
record with subtle nuances in the groove keeping things in an ever-evolving state of play.
Closer ‘155’follows in the same ilk but Madonna and Pascual focus on the melodics this time as a variety of stabs, pads and sweeps play off one another in harmony to create a tripped out peak-time number.
Luigi Madonna & Alberto Pascual’s, ‘Somewhere In Berlin’, is out on Analytictrail July 2013