Strigoi is another strange and intriguing cassette release from Spettro Family, their second for the Vade Retro label. As with the first, these two untitled five minute long tracks are mix of Italo synth and soundtracky ambience filtered through the fractured prism of early industrial and musique concrète techniques, and the sound is again surreal and phantasmal. The a-side starts with pulsating synthesizer and creepy minimal drones, channeling the Italian synth scores of Claudio Simonetti and Fabio Frizzi, but after a couple of minutes it suddenly breaks into Sister Sledge singing about her family for a minute, which then quickly fades into the other half of the track, a mix of mysterious vocalizations and distant screams, an achingly pretty synth melody that keeps reappearing, and deep pounding kettledrums. On the other side, the band gets even more abstract with a strange sound collage of random bass guitar and classical guitar, the susurrant hiss of a phonograph needle running through vinyl grooves, and far off banging noises and shrieks. Then it really kicks in, transforming into another killer Italo-style horror score piece comprised of menacing analogue synth, creepy vocal samples, and sampled strings. The last few minutes then changes into another synthesizer piece, this one equally eerie and evocative and vintage sounding, like a lost soundtrack recording excavated from the materials to a lost Bruno Mattei film. Fans of Italo-style terror electronica like Umberto, Antoni Maovvi, and like-minded Carpenter/Goblin worshipping artists should check this out. Released in a limited edition of one hundred copies.(Crucial Blast)