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Fernando Daxta: Drunvalo's Drums

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Artist: Fernando Daxta
Title: Drunvalo's Drums
Format: 12"
Label: Sirius Pandi (@)
Distributor: Straight Distribution
Rated: * * * * *
Another brick in the wall of releases briskly raised by Fernando Daxta, one of the freshest and soaky face of the new electronic techno scene, for its own label Sirius Pandi. Even if clearly influenced by the German tech-house scene as well as by some minimalistic branches of the English breakbeat one, he gained a certain respect not only for the support of renowned djs and producer such as Josh Wink and Alexi Delano, but also for its capability in inserting some slices of its personal historical roots in each trach (born in Spain, he lived for a lot of years in South America before moving to Belgium), he’s decided to print a track, Drunvalo’s Drums, he’d already tested on the occasion of some live sets - Finca in Stuttgart (Germany), Electrosonic Festival in Burgos (Spain)or Spartacus in Aix-en-provence (France) – which gained an enthusiastic reaction by hotheaded audiences -. There are two versions of the mentioned track: the first one, The Age of Consciousness mix, looks like a mantra with entrancing "mute" tribal drums texturing an hypnotic web on paddy synths and bumpy plastic bass hits which has been "eroticized" by possessed vocal wailings by the Colombian singer Natalia Davila during a session in Mexico City, the latter is a treatment proposed by Mr.Statik with rave-y and liquid fills on the percussive parts combined with some crescendo and cuts frequently used by skilled djs dealing with minimal electronic techno stompers in order to add exquisite fripperies to a track. Even if more anchored to classical minimalistic hooks (a tremolo on a synth-pad and a perfect shaping on bass sounds together with malicious bubbly vocal samples), you’ll also enjoy (and dance) Quien Anda Ahi on B2, a track which seems to be a transmission grabbed from eleventh dimension!

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