No Label, Joaquim Merdavic, Yaneez, La Serte, sickMatteo665½ - Veneto D'Acciaio Mixtape
- 1Matteo Babbeo
- 2Goethe
- 3il crollo dei sensi
- 4Rava Reverse!!
- 5Amianto / PFAS
- 6sindrome da Main Character
- 7papi
- 8π (live in Piazza San Marco)
- 9vortex
- 10Giorni di Disperazione
- 11briatore (made in 2018)
- 12foto mosse
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Open edition
Veneto d’Acciaio Mixtape is a document born from years of wild, instinctive experimentation between No Label and a small, near-clandestine circle of friends from Padua — Joaquim Merdavic, Yaneez, La Serte, and sickMatteo665½. Released on No Label’s imprint Patrizia Artengo Edizioni, the project captures the essence of a crew that stands as a true anomaly within the Italian and European music landscape.
Eccentric and uncompromising, the mixtape reflects an aesthetic shaped by the hollow vastness of the Veneto hinterland — a cosmic void rendered in sound. Its cover, featuring the stern gaze of an elderly man with distinctly Veneto features, mirrors the mood: a harsh, unadorned look into a world defined by provincial displacement, existential fatigue, and a peculiar, corrosive humour.
Recorded in fully punk circumstances — a beat made after a long night out, verses tracked before Christmas dinner, another session captured on New Year’s Day in full post-hangover dissociation — the project embodies the raw immediacy of a group that never planned to build a mythology, yet inevitably did.
Musically, it moves with deliberate eclecticism: from Italian library music fragments to lento violento pulses, from stretched-out electronics to jagged, near-cacophonic structures. Lyrically, it swings between Joaquim Merdavic’s punk-tinged reflections, La Serte’s unfiltered grit, sickMatteo665½’s niche cultural detours, and Yaneez’s satirical sharpness.
What emerges is less a mixtape and more a field recording of a friendship forged in boredom, strangeness, and low-key rebellion — a sonic testimony from a crew that channels nihilism, dissident irony, and the quiet devastation of provincial life into something strangely luminous.
Recorded between 2018 and 2025 in Atlas Studio (Padova), Sunset Club Studio (Albignasego), Music Factory Rehearsal rooms (Albignasego), No Label's room in Milan, No Label's house in Padova, Giovanni Battistin's house in Padova, Giacomo and Tommaso Garofolin's house in Conselve
Entirely produced, mixed and mastered by No Label
Lyrics by Joaquim Merdavic, La Serte, sickMatteo665½ and Yaneez
Electric guitar and bass in track 8 and 10 played by No Label
Drums in track 8 played by Giacomo Garofolin
Cover art by No Label (by courtesy of the pictured man's family)
Eccentric and uncompromising, the mixtape reflects an aesthetic shaped by the hollow vastness of the Veneto hinterland — a cosmic void rendered in sound. Its cover, featuring the stern gaze of an elderly man with distinctly Veneto features, mirrors the mood: a harsh, unadorned look into a world defined by provincial displacement, existential fatigue, and a peculiar, corrosive humour.
Recorded in fully punk circumstances — a beat made after a long night out, verses tracked before Christmas dinner, another session captured on New Year’s Day in full post-hangover dissociation — the project embodies the raw immediacy of a group that never planned to build a mythology, yet inevitably did.
Musically, it moves with deliberate eclecticism: from Italian library music fragments to lento violento pulses, from stretched-out electronics to jagged, near-cacophonic structures. Lyrically, it swings between Joaquim Merdavic’s punk-tinged reflections, La Serte’s unfiltered grit, sickMatteo665½’s niche cultural detours, and Yaneez’s satirical sharpness.
What emerges is less a mixtape and more a field recording of a friendship forged in boredom, strangeness, and low-key rebellion — a sonic testimony from a crew that channels nihilism, dissident irony, and the quiet devastation of provincial life into something strangely luminous.
Recorded between 2018 and 2025 in Atlas Studio (Padova), Sunset Club Studio (Albignasego), Music Factory Rehearsal rooms (Albignasego), No Label's room in Milan, No Label's house in Padova, Giovanni Battistin's house in Padova, Giacomo and Tommaso Garofolin's house in Conselve
Entirely produced, mixed and mastered by No Label
Lyrics by Joaquim Merdavic, La Serte, sickMatteo665½ and Yaneez
Electric guitar and bass in track 8 and 10 played by No Label
Drums in track 8 played by Giacomo Garofolin
Cover art by No Label (by courtesy of the pictured man's family)
