[AeTech014]Balatro - QuOz
Artist: Balatro
Title: QuOz
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech014
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2009
Hungarian underground techno is rising. Beside the well-known Doryk and Dan Mute now Bardus Balatro is here, with the versatile Exigent, the hard Bee and the promising Jay Saunter & Tom Speedline. This is more than hopeful situation for us. Our new pride: Balatro has made our 14th release for aetech. It is an impressing work contains four parts. First, Demon Arrived acts as an initial sound to inform audience what can be expected from the next 23 minutes. Short dark ambient initials, hard bassdrums with flashing industrial noises, horns, screams meet the reminescenting vintage patterns. The next one, Equilibration has a bit childlike c64 intro followed by a jingle to lift the track into a sacred space. In Morbid Flow you an forget that kind of feeling. Dark and assymetric. Autechre meets Makaton in a hardcore party. Orbis funk and electro but still with breaks. It takes us down to the Earth.
[AeTech013]Doryk - Bad Taste
Artist: Doryk
Title: Bad Taste
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech013
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2009
Robert Kiss alias Doryk releases his new EP under Audioexit. He creates smoother, peaceful themes under the name of PCMN. Previously known in his track on AeTech010 Techno Hooligans, this sound (sunk in the deepest chambers of darkness without compromises) continues on Bad Taste EP giving an evidence that Doryk is one of the most talented dark/off beat producers in Hungary, together with Dan Mute. All the three track has reflective and auteur attitude: one of them has the known Doryk/Pcmn sound, the others could be inserted in mainstream. As JG Ballard wrote: "dystopian modernity".
[AeTech012]Dan Mute - On Demand
Artist: Dan Mute
Title: On Demand
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech012
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2009
This newest techno EP from Audioexit is in a strong connection of a (possible) Hungarian techno revolution. Compared to the roughness of Dan Mute`s previous EP (AeTech 007;Flourish) this material is more organic and reflects to several subgenres of techno. This indicates that Dan Mute is a very precise, self-confident producer. All the 4 tracks are full of energy. Destroying and building simultaneously. This is the music of unearthly machines which are looking for the soul for their bodies. Alien machines start to attack with a loose club-techno with small house attributes (On Demand). Space feeling and hybrid tunes. Surgeon and Regis could be the advisors for the next assault (Interrupt). Space / offbeat structure what lead us to the rolldown of track 3, Rush despite of changed strategy of Aliens :) . After this assertive sonic-weapon all the elements are joining. Techno soldiers could test all these elements in the past. Total destroy - and a small signal far behind the frontlines received by Antenna...but only hell comes and tiny creatures looking for survivors.
[AeTech011]P.C.M.N. - Dark Science
Artist: P.C.M.N
Title: Dark Science
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech011
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2009
Audioexit's first complete album is Dark Science from P.C.M.N. Although the tracks are in a wide spectrum, standing between two fine ambient works (Intro, Outro), the 8-track LP has a solid, clear off-beat sound well-known from the producer. Plastic Love is almost break-like but very-very deep and its opposite is Powertool which is a simple, lighter techno track. Playground is more playful in sounds with classic elements but Carma is the counterpoint: cold dark-tech. The structure of Sleepless, with traditional and smooth sound carpets is just an extra value in the LP also with the strict and exact techno of Organic Structures.
[AeTech010]V.A. - Techno Hooligans
Artist: Various
Title: Techno Hooligans
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech010
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
Audioexit has become one year old on 22nd November. This date is a remarkable date not only for the netlabel but for the techno genre as well because Audioexit's goal is to represent the other sides of techno which are different from the classic club techno sounds beside publishing minimal and deep stuff. We can state that the netlabel can go further this way with success and recognition by the scene. The tenth tech release with ten exciting tracks salutes to the birthday. The LP gives abundant supply of tracks from this genre. You can find the nostalgic mixture of house and techno covered with club-sounds (Prkl), the hard offbeat without compromises (Dan Mute), the dark but elegant piece (The Bee, Doryk) on the release. Paralelly you can get the Birmingham-sound with a little bit of acid (Macwolf, Kev Willis, Jay Saunter), minimal (Sascha Müller) and a special atmosphere of the borderline of breakbeat and techno (Plastic Loopz).
[AeTech009]Sascha Müller - The Forces of Metaplex
Artist: Sascha Müller (GER)
Title: The Forces of Metaplex
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech009
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
After PRKL's Takas Tapiolas, The Forces of Metaplex from Sascha Müller is also an advanced, nostalgic mix of tech-house and acid, and more intensive, more symbiotic unit of these previous genres pointing out that these styles are partly (or mainly) mean the progressive language of electronic music. Opening track, The Force 2 is the hardest of the EP with agressive beats and rousing hihats. An elegant opposite is the sunny, funk-like Metaplex with a vocal loop which is closer to the "millennium sound" than the other tracks. It also rejects the postmodern style. Schaltkreis takes us into the golden age of acid-techno with cruel changes, industrial basses and an absolute professional structure. Finally, slow building progress, smoothly coming acid insertion, tempered hihats and moderated rhythms are in Feindkontakt.
[AeTech008]PRKL - Takas Tapiolas
Artist: PRKL (FIN)
Title: Takas Tapiolas
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech008
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
Takas Tapiolas EP from PRKL reproduces classic, tangible, millennium-style club techno sounds to the memory of an age where techno, house, funk were ripened in a stronger unity on tech-celebs (Chris Liebing, Adam Beyer, Marco Carola, Gayle San) black vinyls. Elegant, dancefloor-oriented pieces with smooth synth-refills, atmospheric sound carpets. A true 4/4 compilation for summer.
[AeTech007]Dan Mute - Flourish
Artist: Dan Mute
Title: Flourish
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech007
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
Flourish, Dan Mute's four-track EP tell us routine and clarity and beside the interpretation of classic soundings (Dave Terrida, Christian Vogel), it enriches the language of contemporary techno as well. The first track, I. creates a pulsating, closed structure but after all it can sustain the stress continuously, and paralelly emancipates an old-fashioned, already forgotten Berlin sound. Second piece, II. can be defined as the funny deconstruction of basic 4/4 with smooth, returning figure which suggests constant divergence. III. reflects the elegance and clear-out of the initial track, with well-known chimes, exciting but limited breaks and feedbacks. These elements make dynamic the canonical tonality of the track. Closing theme, IV. is almost a minimal piece. Its assimetric structure, more and more intensive scratchy metamorphosis and moderate tempo are worthy completions of this exceptionally complex release.
[AeTech006]Macwolf - Transitions
Artist: Macwolf (ES)
Title: Transitions
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech006
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
A sharp precision and melancholy mixed with chrome steel frostiness surges out from the EP Transitions by Macwolf, which presents a long-awaited musical strictness to all techno supporters, even who are open to the experimental musical sector as well. The sinister effects of the third millennium's broken beat, robustness of industrial, the austere elegance of electronica and the yet unknown constellations of off-beat appear on an amazingly coherent four-track EP. Despite being organic, and a combination patched with conga and a fine melody line, the album initial IN and OUT can not ignore the intensity of the composition and the dark, metallic sounding that accompanies the music. The following Paraphonic is a gradual decline into a thicker, less sculpturesque and dematerialized musicality, whose shape is still keeping its frames. The industrial sonority presented with bitter-sweet nostalgy of The Wait is only a transition to the album final 2012, which, in one track, integrates radical closure, organicity, constructivity and all that may give techno a chance to step out of the circle of its own, often negligent reproductions.
[AeTech005]Kev Willis - Dark Souls
Artist: Kev Willis (UK)
Title: Dark Souls
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech005
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
A surprising right-about turn faces the receiver of the EP titled Dark Souls by Kev Willis, because after the more industrial and robust composition "Pathwave" issued on the netlabel's first release - Dirty boys EP - now a completely new sounding welcomes us. Instead of harsh metallic sounding, chiselled, sophisticated, more playful and well-known breaks appear, but all-in-all it can be named as an EP generating rather from click-minimal and electronica, which, however, without enough unicality, has a less powerful effect as a whole. Dark Soul, the tensest track of the album, as the introductory one, is based on muted bass, and is an extremely monotonous, pulsating, and dark composition. The forwarding Mirage is a more classical minimal piece decorated with sunny, softer keyboard movements. However, Outer Sphere guides us to another world: it is a more rigorous, experimental work, with a striated sub-bass carpet of sounds that evokes COH. Elemental, the most exciting and the final one of the release, is a clear electronica with its total poly-rhythmicality and ambient movements, which mixes the atmospheric and industrial effects in its most elegant way.
[AeTech004]The Bee - Flying Steps
Artist: The Bee
Title: Flying Steps
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech004
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
As compared to all the previous releases, the coarsest and most raucous sounding has appeared on the carpet in the EP Flying Steps by The Bee.
Instead of refined textures, the more etched movements and the asymmetry have become approachable on a variant horizon, from a divergent musical background (hardtech/hardcore/industrial), which, of course, has no effect on the quality of the music.
After Dark People in the woods' linear, misshapen marching, which is also exploring several dimensions, Mono City is a more complex track, whose finer introduction, after a break recalling the dawn of D'n'B empire, is counterpointed with a dark, high intensity break-tech section.
Taking the IDM/electronica effect, integrated with more atmospheric and lighter vocals, Mount Everest becomes the most exciting techno fusion of the album.
The last composition is tuning up as Tik-Tak, an outstandingly elegant, though moderate, but an extremely energetic off-beat, which is a neat sealing of the EP.
/Translated by Violet Weaver/
[AeTech003]Jay Saunter - Citizen
Artist: Jay Saunter
Title: Citizen
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech003
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2008
The EP Citizen by Jay Saunter leaves no chances for accidents. It is a techno album for a cosmopolitan with universally acceptable, demanding 4/4. There are no surprising or unexpected turns, it is created from the 150 most popular sound samples and effects of the world, but altogether with this, it is an extremely complete and coherent piece, in which all elements are in there due place - in its currently running time register. The rethought of millennium sounding of SpeedyJ, Menthol creates a house - off-beat techno transition, with a chiselled ambient intermezzo in the piece's geometric center. On the other hand, the metropolitan idyll of Smogz is covered with some "nobal dirt", which roughly restricts the track's atmosphere. It is a frigidly building repetition, for which, however already known, yet in the dénouement of the composition time and again alienator motives are attached, not just gradually and laminated but ever so much stylishly.
/Translated by Violet Weaver/
[AeTech002]Maztika - Punkt
Artist: Maztika (PL)
Title: Punkt
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech002
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2007
The wild romanticism of Transylvania and the shivering darkness of its deep beds are also present on Maztika's four-track Punkt EP, as the mood of the gloaming sunshine glimmering on a cocktail shaker at the Ibizan coasts giving a new, professional example for the varied and evergreen language of techno. Dharma's quotation of black mantle in Ed Rush & Optical has its rough mechanism in an outstandingly genuine attempt for bridging the boundaries of broken beats and 4/4.
FPWE6X6 reproduces this brilliant hypothesis for merging the evil, silicate 4/4 and the classical house decorated with congas and funky movements. Nosferatu, however, claims no doubt against its grim mindset for outperforming even Reeko as well, in intensive tempo and the effects of supernatural silhouettes.
A professional soft-techno/tech-house piece of the superb EP, Nothing To Hide depicts the nostalgy of an eventful night's dawn with its bittersweet, groovy, moving main theme, fronts/ bridges and classical dancefloor back-jerking.
/Translated by Violet Weaver/
[AeTech001]V.A. - Dirty Boys EP
Artist: Various
Title: Dirty Boys EP
Label: Audioexit Records / ae-tech
Cat. Nr: AeTech001
Quality: 320 kbps
Year: 2007
Techno language is covering wider and wider fields on
the palette of digital/electro-acoustic music. It draws the latest genres into
itself with a strange vehemence and conquerring appetite. In no time, it also
assimilated electronica and industrial, those considered the dark side of
repetitive music at genetic level. The first, yet uniquely mature but also
conceptually coherent release of the international netlabel speaks the language
of the cold, deep force, revealing its suggestibility step-by-step in sensitive
bits. The opening track PKM by Dominik Müller destroys the last Ibizan command
posts of 4/4 with a beastly cruelty; as a pulsating, wuthering wagon, it
bulldozed all that Detroit's children once had recognised about the future of
the genre. The sounding represented by him is a perfect pot-pourri of the robust
leanness of dark-techno alkalized from acid and schranz in the late 90s (Regis,
Christian Wünsch, Oscar Mullero, Hu, etc.) and the dark ambient,
industrial/industrial-techno (Imminent Starvation, Hypnoskull, Iszoloscope) iron
cable sounding; which is definitely true for the actually presented composition
in the selection. Pathwave by Kev Willis skips back only with a small step from
"acoustic Chernobil" and changes the texture of the beats for the elan of a
lighter and more classical repetitive piece - creating an exciting asymmetry
between the dirt of the effects and the cleanness of rhythm. It excels with its
lyrical-floating atmosphere, but Revolver by P.c.m.n is an elemental part of the
album, whose broken base (already known from his previous work) counterpoints
the track's pathos in an elegant duplicity. The most chiseled piece in tuning
is Hunger by Plastic Loopz, whose organicity and loose, step-by-step building
and then decaying structure effuses strange, productive tension. Regarding
complexity and autonomous dimensions, a unique sharpness wuthers from the final
work of the selection, that is UC Genetic Laboratory by Solidpulze. The
seemingly not corresponding jingling movement and the contrapuntal "frozen
carpet" of sounds get one-by-one onto the classical repetition that develops
from the long dark ambient bridge so as to melt into an astonishingly mature,
amazingly homogeneous and at the same time cathartically twisting composition.
/Translated by Violet Weaver/