Rodion-Ladislau Rosca spent his lifetime creating music that was ambitious, groundbreaking and innovative. He was a pioneering composer, a talented multi-instrumentalist and producer, pushing musical boundaries to their limits as a solo artist and with his group Rodion G. A.

Despite being popular in their native Romania, Rodion G. A. had to work under an oppressive Communist regime only releasing two tracks for a compilation album in 1981. Rodion, however, made extensive recordings in his home studio. Described as “the Godfather of Romanian electronic music”, he died in 2021 aged 67.

This new collection – compiled by Derek Anderson – draws on unreleased material from Rodion’s personal archive. Some tracks sound like a metallic John Foxx-era Ultravox! Others showcase electronic melodic pulsebeats an