Lex Acida: Time Travel Through Sound at Bargas Livars Studio, Trieste, 1994

From the depths of Italy’s 1990s underground, Cristiano Stern’s Lex Acida project returns after three decades in obscurity. The album Genesi, made with DJ Joe Montana, receives a new remaster through Vil Records.

Its story begins in 1993, with a raw, powerful demo circulating on duplicated cassettes among alternative-club audiences. But Lex Acida’s concept reached beyond musical aesthetics. Stern was fascinated by the idea of manipulating time through sound. Influenced by quantum-physics theories and mysticism, he imagined music as a sonic time machine capable of carrying listeners into different states of consciousness—and perhaps other eras.

That search became a visceral mixture of goa trance, industrial music and techno house. It attracted Discomagic’s attention, leading to a vinyl release in 1994. Recorded at Bargas Livars Studio in Trieste, Genesi is an intense, immersive journey. Sometimes dissonant sequences, pulsing electronic rhythms and Stern’s restless keyboards create hypnotic, occasionally unsettling soundscapes.

After years among collectors’ rarities, the recording could be heard anew. Vil Records’ 2024 remaster brought previously obscured details forward, revealing the album’s sonic complexity and the raw energy of the original sessions. It offers a route into a hidden corner of Italian underground electronic music.