Alessandro Cortini - cancelled

Italian musician, producer, composer and instrument builder Alessandro Cortini is one of theforemost figures of contemporary electronic music. A longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails, Cortini has been releasing a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including Mute and Important Records for the past decade. Balancing dark ambiance with smokey, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured and mesmeric. In 2021, incollaboration with boutique synth builders Make Noise, Cortini released his own, custom-designed, semi-modular synth, Strega (Italian for 'witch'). That same year, he used Strega tobuild his latest full length, Scuro Chiaro (Mute), which Pitchfork described as "pitchedsomewhere between purgatory and the planetarium [...] consistently managing to thrill andsurprise". Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, Cortini has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow (to name a few).