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Presto!?

Ten Minutes to Midnight
Marco Farina's debut is a masterwork of subtraction. It burns quietly through different ideas, drawing across the electronic scene its intimate trajectory - bright and sharp as a shooting star. Eight pieces of research-based wishful thinking, shaping…
12H
Donato Dozzy distills his '12H' sound installation for the Music Bridge - designed by Armando Trovajoli in Rome for MAXXI Director Bartolomeo Pietromarchi - into 12 enchanted, free-floating ambient structures running for 100 minutes on Lorenzo Senni’…
Point Line Cloud
P028X is the reissue of the seminal Point Line Cloud album by Curtis Roads, 15 years after its original publication on Asphodel. Each piece here revels in the microscopic level of sound that Roads discusses in his book Microsound. He devises rich tex…
2/8 Bregman 4/8 Deutsch 7/8 Hecker 1/8 Holler
restocked: Presto!? is happy to announce the release of "2/8 Bregman 4/8 Deutsch 7/8 Hecker 1/8 Hõller", a double 10” Vinyl set produced and compiled by Florian Hecker with a contribution by Carsten Höller The title "2/8 Bregman 4/8 Deutsch 7/8 Hecke…
Gloss
Lorenzo Senni's inspired Presto!? imprint presents one of 2015's most singular electronic albums with the solo debut proper from Theo Burt. Originally written circa 2009/2010, it's an album that was never really intended for public consumption but…
Psyops For Dummies
Sherard Ingram - DJ STINGRAY - has been an active member in Detroit's electronic music community for nearly 25 years now. Never shy of a collaboration, Ingram spent much of the '90s teaming up with Carl Craig, Anthony 'Shake' Shakir and Kenny Dixon J…
S/t
Attila Faravelli and Nicola Martini are two of the most innovative italian artists working in the field between sound art, electro-acoustic music and raw resonanting materials. This recordings, edited by Giuseppe Ielasi, are the result of a couple…
Bari Workshop
restocked: BW hosted a group of medieval miniature manuscript painters who were amongst the experts in the recording of the history of science and who circulated knowledge around the world and across cultures. Greek texts on Euclidean geometry were t…
Object of Thought
Object of Thought" is a stunning MUST HAVE release by one of the most deep thinking artist in the field of noise and improvised music; Mattin's voice is crushed and modulated by feedbacks and distortions and reassembled into a stream of multilayered …
Dunno
Just arrived, beautiful solo album for the Presto records label's owner...Produced, edited, mixed by Lorenzo Senni and mastered by Marcus Schmickler, "Dunno" is the very first official release from the 27years old italian founder of Presto!?; his p…
Graf Spee
Special limited to 50 copies, ART EDITION comes on white vinyl with a signed and hand-numbered inserts by the artists. "deep, long-form works by c.m. von hausswolff, each acting as the sound component to a separate collaborative  audio-visual work wi…
Mirrors
There is not a lot to say when a young talented percussionist meet one of the master of improvised music, also percussionist ; we can just sit and listen what happens. this is what exactly did the guys at cosabeat studio during "mirrors" recording …
The Sky Above The Bud Below
Noisy but not even brutal. Digital enough to preserve the organic and crispy taste of the sound. These are two new stunning recordings from one of the most active and finest artist in the field of noise and improvised music. This is Lasse Marhaug. Th…
Dora Bengala
Doro Bengala propose a fireworks display, we use explosions as sounds and sounds as explosions of colours.We practise the art of sense stimulation through the use of coloured flames, of shrieks and low frequencies. Our group carry out a practice from…
The Carpenter
The work of Claudio Rocchetti is a deep plunge into thick sound, investigating its innermost workings. Using a variety of devices such as turntables, audio cassettes, samplers, radios, and microphones, often incorporating other objects and traditiona…
Last Days vol. II
september 2009 release ; excellent (if painfully brief ; could really use an lp-length recording of this stuff !!!) single of ghostly guitar passages (recorded in harlem, usa, no less) from italian artist stefano pilia ...two mazzacane-connors-esque …
Fart Synthesis
'Fart Synthesis' is the 8th episode in EVOL's ongoing Punani series, and was edited from live recordings in Osaka, Kiev and Toulouse between 2008 and 2009. All sounds were synthesized on the fly on various computers. The final tracks were assembled i…
Standard
Presto Records expands to the world of cassettes, or perhaps that should be 'limits to the world of cassette'? Inside there is a code mentioned by which you can get digital access to the material, which is a great move. Enrico Malatesta is a percussi…
Zombie
A very unusual album by John Wiese, almost the furthest perimeter of what we’ve come to expect. For years Wiese has developed a highly personal approach to sound, steering clear of nearly every convention of musical language — repetition, melody, ins…
Long dead machines I-IX
This is the first double bass solo record of the musician, composer and producer (co-founder of Durian) Werner Dafeldecker that focuses his work on improvisation, electronic music and cross-over projects
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