Heartware

Italo Brutalo's debut album Heartware is a 12-track trip through 25 years of synth collecting, composing and devotion to audio synthesis. It is playful, machine-driven and rooted in the thrill of hardware, with a clear love for the 80s and 90s worlds of VHS haze, arcade flash and body-moving electronics.

Across cuts like Heartware, Reach Horizon, I Feel Lonely, Analog Bars and Nobody Moves, he moves from arpeggiated electro and vocoder lines to beachside dystopia, hip-hop-informed thump and slow, tense robot-heist pressure. The album keeps a cohesive headspace while shifting its mood with real confidence.

As Above So Below, Heat of the Knight, Chemical Element, You Are Welcome, Into a Sampler, Dream Machine and Eternia push from aggro drums and new beat impact to EBM charge, softer dream states and a space-opera finale. The inner sleeve also salutes the hardware at the heart of it all.