It is always exciting when new electro bands show themselves, taking the 80's electro flag just to re-process the original sound giving to it a fresh reading of that synthetic sound. You can imagine how could be exciting when the precursors of the genre decide to release a new album full of cool sounds and ideas. In this case Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky (keyboard player of I Refuse It. Band who was active in the 80's with their particular hard core punk) decided to give their personal version of the modern electro clash showing us where everything is coming from. The eleven tracks of Italcimenti's UNDER CONSTRUCTION take inspiration from the italo disco sound mixing it with a good dose of humor (see titles like "Disco tamarro" where "tamarro" in Italian is a rough person which behave like a redneck). Rhythm and melody is the main thing and there's also some space for the re-interpretation of classic songs like "Bela Lugosi is dead" (while the original Bauhaus version was based on obscure ambience, Italcimenti makes of it a throbbing dance tune) or "Trigger happy" (if I'm not wrong this is a version of a Nitzer Ebb song and the duo is giving us an analog version of it). If you are tired of techno based only on looped rhythms and fashion I suggest you to check UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Enjoyment is assured!