Milan based Egyptian-French producer Seif Gaber makes “science-fiction archeo-miragical time traveltapes” – imaginary soundtracks for lost or imagined pasts and futures.

“This music was supposed to immerse you and transport you somewhere else," he says. “It was a big deal for me to have sounds accompanied by visual and narratorial cues”.

The Milanese experimental scene he feels part of revolves around the idea of Fifth World music, which expands Jon Hassell’s Fourth World idea into the vast territories of the World Wide Web to foster “transnational exoticism” while avoiding orientalism or exploitation. This facet of Polonius’s work is best captured through Antique Fantasia. Its most recent Volume 4 consists of six demo tapes recorded between 2015–18, a collection layered with watery piano melodies, frolicking rhythms and vaporwaveadjacent soundscapes.

Here, he creates an exclusive mix of music that has inspired this most recent work.

Tracklist

Psychic Sounds Ensemble “Batch 2”
Bernard C “A Iche La Mo”
Ilhan Mimaroglu “To Kill a Sunrise”
Three-Legged Race “Magnetic Bride”
Les Halles “On Cetacean Language”
Bruce Haack “Incantation”
Bear Bones, Lay Low “Atlantean Encrypted Message”
Xénomorphe “Xenos I X”
Luc Marianni “Synthetic Suite Nº4 Pour Voix Feminine”
80s Detective “Step Across The Border”
Ilhan Mimaroglu “Motors”
Angus Maclise “Tunnel Music #2 And #3”
Henry Cow “Deluge”
Paul Bley “Improvisie”
Polonius “Snake Eyes”
Jacula “Jacula Valzer”
Walter Maioli, Fred Gales, Pit Piccinelli “Amazonia 6891”
Reptilian Expo featuring Señor Service “Sunitty”
Angus Maclise “Loft Collage”
80s Detective “80s Death”
Randy Greif “The Rabbit Hole”
Francesca Heart “Blue Hawaii” (Unreleased)
Tom Recchion “Cara Mia”
The T-Bones “No Matter What Shape”
Jon Appleton & Don Cherry “OBA”
Typhonian Highlife “CD’s Peacock Acqua Reggia”