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No Label presents Cyberpadania II EP


No Label brings you the second EP in his Cyberpadania saga, Cyberpadania II EP, available 28th January. This incredible EP redefines Lento musica electronica, with lashings of Italian pop culture weaved through its DNA. Cyber (Electronic) + Padania (an emotive term for North Italy) = Cyberpadania


Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, Lento (musical notation for slow) thrummed through club scene, Preascolto Dj sets wowing the most discerning Italian crowds with rhythms of 80-110 BPM allowing the music to breathe whilst keeping the sonic intensity. Then came Gigi D'Agostino, who pioneered the slightly harder Lento Violento. Italian club culture started to give way to more international sounds and Lento kind of faded away. Until June 2024…


Cyberpadania I brought a rebirth to the genre, No Label coining his fresh new subgenre Nuovo Lento. with tracks around 80-100BPM. Cyberpadania I was met with rapturous approval with supporters such as VTSS, Raffaele Attanasio, and Gabber Eleganza and thousands of Bandcamp downloads, and picked up for Bandcamp’s New and Notable.


Cyberpadania II picks up to around 100-110 BPM, with four huge tracks that pulsate through your speakers straight into your soul. Infused with kicks, trance synths hip-hop tones, this is Lento like you’ve never heard it before. This is Nuovo Lento.


Successo starts things off with a bang: An AI Sylvio Berlusconi vocal asking you ‘What's the difference between a genius and a madman?’ Success!” before breaking into a soul slamming, dystopian hymn to greed, hyperdigital synths made from scratch by No Label with a Nine Inch Nails / Prodigy intensity. Uroboro, through Richard Benson's vocals, poinders on why Italy currently chooses to copy American genres when Ital has such a rich and complex musical heritage. “We shouldn't give a fuck about bringing America into Italy: I only do what's in my head. Now let's go on with the music: you're listening to Cyberpadania!”



Up third, Crociate Finanziarie pays tribute to the story of No Label’s great grandfather, Armenian pku trumpets reflecting how he escaped the Armenian genocide, to Venice. The final of these four fantastic tracks, Diamanti Grezzi (Rough diamonds) ponders on the sleaze in the hyper distorted world of high-class nightlife.

No Label tells us more: I grew up in Padova (near Venice). Cyberpadania represents my reality: an ultra-modern cyber culture permeated by the internet and technology,

Intertwined and juxtaposed with the cruder and more vulgar traits of Padania (A term championed by the far-right parties of Northern Italy). These two sides interact constantly with each other creating fascinating contradictions. 


No Label has invented a new genre of music, both sonically brilliant and culturally reflective. Listen to it, add it to your collection, take the bpm down and be there at the start of a new wave of Lento. You won’t regret it. 


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