{"product_id":"donato-dozzy-astro","title":"Donato Dozzy - Astro","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Astro’, the new double LP by Donato Dozzy, is in many ways a culmination and intersection of life-long interests, and Tresor Records is delighted to announce that it will launch into the cosmos on November 20, 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonato Dozzy is beloved for his way of blending synthesised sounds into seamless, deep, hypnotic works, whether\u003cbr\u003eas a DJ or in the studio. So it might come as a surprise that at the root and source of Dozzy’s musical inspiration,\u003cbr\u003ewe find Japanese children’s cartoons and toys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late 70s into the 80s, Italian youngsters, including Dozzy, were captivated by a wave of Japanese cartoons\u003cbr\u003efeaturing Jumbo Machinders, awe-inspiring robots on adventures beyond our solar system. Every episode came\u003cbr\u003edubbed into Italian, and had its own specially written Italian theme song, each pressed onto a 7inch single. This\u003cbr\u003ewas the launchpad for two lifelong obsessions: vinyl records and vinyl figurines, and still kept in his home today in\u003cbr\u003eimmaculate, carefully tended collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2025, Dozzy took a sample from the first of the Japanese themes he ever owned, Astro Robot Contatto Ypsylon.\u003cbr\u003eMarking the first time he had directly sampled a song for his own work, later to become the track ‘Astro’, this\u003cbr\u003ecreated an impulse to begin a series of new music, sparked by the robots in his collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDozzy’s meticulous respect for his collections is reflected in the precision of these tracks. Elements within each\u003cbr\u003etrack are harmoniously organised together while ever retaining a sense of space that reflects the cosmic subject\u003cbr\u003ematter. Explorative tracks like ‘Raydeen’, and ‘Himika (M Song)’ exemplify this with powerful yet gentle arpeggios,\u003cbr\u003ewhile ‘Pegasu’ brings forth visions of robots assembling for a deep-space mission launch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like the human characters in the cartoons who piloted the Jumbo Machinder robots, on ‘Astro’, Donato takes\u003cbr\u003econtrol of mighty machines such as the EMS Synthi AKS to create sonic journeys for us all to embark on. ‘Jumbo\u003cbr\u003eCrack’, written on the AKS, is a soaring beatless piece built of rising bass tones and white noise that combine to\u003cbr\u003econjure taking off from earth or a long journey through space. The whole collection is rounded out with ‘Ryoma\u003cbr\u003e(Lò Song)’, a gigantic trance anthem that could easily be the closing credits of your favourite childhood cartoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith ‘Astro’, Donato Dozzy pulls together threads in his life: the warp of music and synthesisers intertwining with\u003cbr\u003ethe weft of childhood memories. A tribute to that freedom to dream, and to the sounds that, from the turntable of\u003cbr\u003ehis childhood led him toward alien and technological musical territories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tresor","offers":[{"title":"Gatefold 2LP","offer_id":58473437397336,"sku":"TKM-43978","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4266\/0184\/files\/TRESOR383.png?v=1789470890","url":"https:\/\/truckmusic.store\/products\/donato-dozzy-astro","provider":"Truck","version":"1.0","type":"link"}