BIANCHI, MAURIZIO - REMS/MECAT Complete Discography Vol. I

Among artists released on cassette in the 1980s was the great Maurizio Bianchi, one of the primary architects of Italian industrial music, whose early experimental works were almost entirely constrained to small run self-issued tapes, and, in this case pertinently, a handful of equally limited LPs. Urashima present REMS/MECAT Complete Discography Vol. I, a beautiful seven-cassette box set drawing on this remarkable era in Maurizios output. Maurizio Bianchis early period of musical productively was relatively brief, between 1979-1983, after which he withdrew for religious reasons. The period produced around 40 releases, roughly half of which were self-released, and nearly all of which were conceived for cassette. Whether by necessity or design, it is the format through which his work is best understood. In addition to the inception of Italian industrial and noise music, Bianchi represents one of that scenes most concise links to similar movements across the globe, during this period fin