Donato Dozzy - Astro *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 20th November 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

‘Astro’, the new double LP by Donato Dozzy, is in many ways a culmination and
intersection of life-long interests, and Tresor Records is delighted to announce that it will
launch into the cosmos on November 20, 2026.
Donato Dozzy is beloved for his way of blending synthesised sounds into seamless, deep, hypnotic works,
whether
as a DJ or in the studio. So it might come as a surprise that at the root and source of Dozzy’s musical
inspiration,
we find Japanese children’s cartoons and toys.
In the late 70s into the 80s, Italian youngsters, including Dozzy, were captivated by a wave of Japanese
cartoons
featuring Jumbo Machinders, awe-inspiring robots on adventures beyond our solar system. Every episode
came
dubbed into Italian, and had its own specially written Italian theme song, each pressed onto a 7inch single.
This
was the launchpad for two lifelong obsessions: vinyl records and vinyl figurines, and still kept in his home
today in
immaculate, carefully tended collections.
In 2025, Dozzy took a sample from the first of the Japanese themes he ever owned, Astro Robot Contatto
Ypsylon.
Marking the first time he had directly sampled a song for his own work, later to become the track ‘Astro’, this
created an impulse to begin a series of new music, sparked by the robots in his collection.
Dozzy’s meticulous respect for his collections is reflected in the precision of these tracks. Elements within
each
track are harmoniously organised together while ever retaining a sense of space that reflects the cosmic
subject
matter. Explorative tracks like ‘Raydeen’, and ‘Himika (M Song)’ exemplify this with powerful yet gentle
arpeggios,
while ‘Pegasu’ brings forth visions of robots assembling for a deep-space mission launch.

Much like the human characters in the cartoons who piloted the Jumbo Machinder robots, on ‘Astro’, Donato
takes
control of mighty machines such as the EMS Synthi AKS to create sonic journeys for us all to embark on.
‘Jumbo
Crack’, written on the AKS, is a soaring beatless piece built of rising bass tones and white noise that
combine to
conjure taking off from earth or a long journey through space. The whole collection is rounded out with
‘Ryoma
(Lò Song)’, a gigantic trance anthem that could easily be the closing credits of your favourite childhood
cartoon.
With ‘Astro’, Donato Dozzy pulls together threads in his life: the warp of music and synthesisers intertwining
with
the weft of childhood memories. A tribute to that freedom to dream, and to the sounds that, from the
turntable of
his childhood led him toward alien and technological musical territories.
01. / A1 Ryoma (Prologue) 03:06 02. / A2 Astro 05:07 03. / B1 Raydeen 06:37 04. / B2 Himika
(M Song) 05:57 05. / C1 Jumbo Crack 03:36 06. / C2 Pegasu 07:26 07. / D Ryoma (Lò Song)
08:10

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