Mantis 17 – Delsin Mantis 17

Stop us if we’ve demanded this before: go to Turin. Not only is the city one of Italy’s under-appreciated stunners, with grand boulevards scoring the epicentre, beautiful palazzos turned into galleries and a typically amazing food scene, its industrial modern history – capital of the country’s automobile sector – has inspired a litany of experimental electronic names. You can hear machines in their work. Katatonic Silentio is a great example, and on this outing she offers up futurist visions of music for the consistently impressive Delsin series, Mantis. Leftfield techno is the best way to describe this, although a more accurate turn of phrase would be something like ‘weird, wonderful, moody, broody, atmosphere-builders packed with strange rhythms and inorganic noises’.