Click image above to check out Jonny Mugwump’s superb Exotic Pylon show, featuring Subway’s remix of Exit Ramp.

Cults of Brasilia follow up last year’s debut release with fresh remixes of α60’s Exit Ramp by Subway (Sunday Best, Soul Jazz Records) and Antoni Maiovvi (Fright Records, Slime Records, Caravan, The Cold Hand).

Soul Jazz favourites Subway deliver a driving, hypnotic mix of techno and cosmic disco influences, perfect for a night drive through a Ballardian cityscape. Meanwhile Italo-futurist Antoni Maiovvi twists Exit Ramp into a relentlessly dramatic soundtrack for an unmade futurist Giallo movie. These remixes are backed up by α60’s arpeggiator-heavy original Italo-Electro mix and new track The Sender which pushes the α60 sound into new, deep minimal territory.

This is essential music for lovers of italo influenced, synth-heavy electronic music, 80s sci-fi horror soundtracks, and fans of Gatekeeper, Ash-Ra Tempel or Goblin.

‘Exit Ramp Remixes’ is out now.

All tracks can be previewed online with last.fm

Cults of Brasilia Music presents α60’s ‘Themes from Utopia’: a five track journey into the heart of the modernist dream. With this debut release α60 combines elements of Electro, Italo-disco, and classic soundtrack music to create a unique and haunting take on melodic synth pop.

As the EP unfolds, synthetic instrumentation and prefabricated drum patterns build up a sinister and occasionally melancholy musical atmosphere. In the space of five tracks myriad electro-music references are condensed into a lean pop format – from the driving, Italo-Electro of ‘Exit Ramp’, the library-pop of ‘Starliner Island’ to the cinematic menace of ‘Arc-Light’ and ‘Theme for a European Film’.

The EP comes across in places as a soundtrack to a re-imagined film adaptation of Ballard’s ‘Crash’, composed by Goblin and ‘Radioactivity’-era Kraftwerk. This is music that recalls the futurist, romantic, synth music of Air, M83 and classic Krautrock and Italo Disco.

The ‘Themes from Utopia’ EP is now available from iTunes and eMusic.