[51bts083] Lo Dev Alm: DVN

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28.10.2026 || electronic, industrial, dub, ambient

Intricate rhythms, ethereal melodies, and noisy textures intersect in a hypnotic continuum to shape up DVN, an imaginary soundtrack to travel though spaces, frenetic cities, and melancholic mountain refuges. DVN is the latest solo project by Lo Dev Alm, aka Daniele Pagliero, who presents a travel between spaces and electronica, industrial and dub, ambient and soundscapes.

DVN challenges genre conventions, delivering an immersive listening experience that is both meditative and dynamic. The album unfolds through a series of proto-songs that flow with cinematic pacing, all linked by a shared core of improvisations that serves as the connective thread.

Conceived as a concept album, DVN stems from the idea of divination, understood as listening to machine errors. The machines were left free to produce sound with minimal human intervention, and compositions emerge from the resulting patterns, much like a diviner observes a natural phenomenon and interprets its meaning.

DVN reminds early experiments by Scorn, and hypnotic atmospheres by Boards of Canada, passing through intense aggressions à la Nine Inch Nails and granular textures reminiscent of Autechre.

Credits: 

Recorded and mixed at Dead Fields Studio (Turin),  2025
Pre-production recorded and mixed by Paul Beauchamp at OFF Studio (Turin) 
Additional guitars by Daniele Brusaschetto, recorded at Subnest (Turin)
Final mix and mastering by Tommaso Marletta (ToMA) at Sonic Ray Studio (Rome)
Cover artwork by Marco “Il Bue” Schiavo – Vinyl layout by Dario Quatrini
Voices by Stephanie Clifford and Seán Downey

[NEWS] “…intricate rhythms, ethereal melodies and abrasive textures, creating an immersive soundscape that shifts between tension and contemplation” OUT 28.10.2026

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“Across a series of cinematic proto-songs, DVN brings together intricate rhythms, ethereal melodies and abrasive textures, creating an immersive soundscape that shifts between tension and contemplation. Its atmosphere evokes contrasting environments, from the restless energy of urban streets to the isolation of a mountain refuge. A shared thread of improvisation connects the compositions, giving the album a sense of continuity despite its constantly evolving sonic landscape.”

[NEWS] “Lo Dev Alm” joins 51Beats with “…an imaginary soundtrack suspended between urban intensity and solitary contemplation”. Read more @NoDivaDJs (Madris, ES)

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“Moving between electronica, industrial, dub and ambient, the record constructs a hypnotic sound world where intricate rhythms, ethereal melodies and noisy textures converge. Its shifting atmospheres evoke both the frenetic energy of city streets and the intimate melancholy of a remote mountain refuge, creating an imaginary soundtrack suspended between urban intensity and solitary contemplation.“

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“Pur attraversando registri differenti, Never Ending Drama mantiene una propria coerenza interna, trovando un equilibrio convincente fra funzionalità e ricerca personale. Un lavoro che conferma la capacità di J. Sintax di muoversi con disinvoltura fra esigenze della pista e sensibilità più contemplative.”

[51bts082-51VIN008] J.Sintax: Never Ending Drama

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10.07.2026 || techno, minimal, electronic

Following his appearance at 51beats ten years ago with the beautiful split-album “Illusion” jointly with Sonambient, J. Sintax delivers here a set of “dancy” tracks reflecting his dancefloor-oriented attitude. Being now permanently based in Berlin, “Never Ending Drama” is a collection that dives into J.Sintax’s recent past experiments flowing from straight-to-the-floor to more meditative melodies, … and back.

The opening track “Cosmos is on drugs!” ironically recalls the Federico’s civil service period in Turin, when of course he could not be on drugs. “Dramma” switches us to the deepest side of the work, which introduces the fantastic synth-based flow characterizing “Circle of Family” that closed the A-side. Turning the plate to the B-side, J.Sintax comes back operative with the hammering “Rough Meeting” a definitive guitar pedal overdrived wall of sounds interwinding your legs to keep you there. Minimal sounds reminding the first Villalobos characterize “PEEL”, an easy-moving repetitive-beats path shaped up featuring Dj Jaci. “Rollcoaster” transforms us into churchgoers with its grandiose opening to capitulate through neurotic 8bit-ish melodies.

Available both in digital and as vinyl-on-demand, “Never Ending Drama” will add 6 pearls to suite your bag with the right boost over your next set.

Credits:
Mastering at Modulol Studio by Joao Ceser
Cover by J.Sintax & Ejnxhi Panariti

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[NEWS] “…a fluid collection of soundscapes where hypnotic rhythms, hazy melodies and noisy textures coexist without settling into predictable structures.”

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“On DVN, released via 51Beats, Italian producer Daniele Pagliero explores the creative possibilities of technological error through his electronic project Lo Dev Alm. Moving between industrial, dub, ambient and experimental electronica, the album unfolds as a fluid collection of soundscapes where hypnotic rhythms, hazy melodies and noisy textures coexist without settling into predictable structures.”