* 150 numbered copies, each with a hand-assembled unique sleeve and a micro-zine, all copies are different.*  Two tracks recorded in Milan in 1986, released for the first time forty years later, on the Milanese DIY imprint SSTARS. Joykix is Fabrizio Longo (b. Milan 1964); Hydra Mentale was the name of his fanzine, taken from the mythological hydra that regenerates under each blow, its 1984 first issue carrying a monochrome Manchester-style industrial cityscape on the cover.

By the time of the 1986 sessions, Joykix had co-founded Virus (the occupied punk centre in Via Correggio, whose guiding proposition was "il punk è rumore") and Helter Skelter (the Leoncavallo basement where the Creature simili hosted early Italian dark groups, Officine Schwartz, Wretched, and touring bands like Henry Rollins and Sonic Youth, both of whom slept on Joykix's floor in Rogoredo the night after their shows). He would soon join the editorial team of Decoder, the international cyberpunk magazine illustrated by Professor Bad Trip, and help found ShaKe Edizioni with Gomma and Marco Philopat. A single figure holding, in parallel, the most combustible threads of Milanese post-punk, dark, industrial, and cyberpunk DIY releases.

Two tracks, "Acciaio" (3:55) and "Ambienti Saturi" (5:47), from the exact moment when Maurizio Bianchi's cassettes and the first Sigillum S studio sessions were being taped a few miles away in the same city. Acciaio (steel) is the material of Milan's industrial periphery, of the abandoned factory zones Joykix was simultaneously photographing and filming on Super 8.

The SSTARS edition consists of 150 numbered copies, each with a hand-assembled unique sleeve and a micro-zine, pressed as a 7" because that was the native format of the scene the music came out of. Not a reissue: there was no original issue. Disko Acciaio is, forty years late, exactly where it belongs.