The recording seal that runs the Spanish producer Alberto Pascual, Ex Aequo, releases its sixth work.
In this Various Artists EP we come across four tracks, where the sounds speak by themselves, they meet and fail to meet up, they twist and reinforce until its limit. These are sounds that hypnotize, but always preserving a genuine identity for every track. It’s
rare to find an EP with the strength of composition such as the piece before us.
A1. Jnks - Dome: a track that hypnotize from beginning to end thanks to its crafted synthesised sound that despite its minimalist approach, gets to fill the space, the one which hardly glimpse gaps due to its overwhelming kicks. It’s pure adrenalin on the
dance floor.
A2. Another Librarian - Book002: when the bass drum raw opaque techno, occasionally wrong timing, run into the torn ambient, the one with sounds that seem to scratch
begging for a way out, the one that follows that rhythm guided by hi-hat that grow and tune in a minimalist key. Then and only then, at that very moment, was born a track like Book002
b1. Pascual - Deuce: brilliant track increases the EP rotations that play with the listener’s minds because of the excellent use of the synthesised sounds and the textures that circle as if they were a buzzing, they stir, disappear and appear over and
over again. If we separate its structure, we’ll find that every sound is suitable for the motion of a different part of the body. The kicks boom and move your feet, the synths fly around your head, the open hi-hats that demand a constant arm flapping. Some
beats that meet in a music ecstasy.
b2. Hironori - Takahashi Angelist: there are many people that think that the present and the future of techno go through tracks with Angelist features. Dark and noise, inheriting the most strict ambient, but with the rhythmic harmony than only a techno
track can give. Its strengths is based on the impulse of a single musical note which is modified in different frequencies along the whole theme, a very productive way to accompany several atmospheres, to originate split minds, to recall freedom. A perfect
track made of agonizing sounds. We come to an end with this track.
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