Deca - Mass (2017)

Deca (Federico De Caroli) is a composer and musician who has for over 30 years been a protagonist of the Italian electronic and experimental scene, as well as an involvement with theater, multimedia and television.

He began playing in 1975 and in 1983 bought his first synthesizer starting a long process of creative evolution, playing in bands that were inspired by the British new wave and studying the dynamics of synthetic sound.

In 1985 he began his solo productions based on linear sequencer and minimal compositions that refered to already famous authors for electronic music like Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, and Vangelis, but also the Kosmische of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze.

"MASS" was produced in 1987/1988 with a Roland synthesizer and was only distributed on cassette in a limited run. It is a more rhythmic album than his other works of the time, and ranks alongside the hugely collectable "Alkaid" (1986) and "Synthetic Lips" (1987).