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Aquarian


Unlike fellow world cities London and Berlin, New York has never been defined by a single strain of techno. These days, odd ball labels have proliferated en masse and while the City's dance music output bears little resemblance to the formative sounds of Detroit, it holds a rarified place in the canon. In that vein, producer/DJ Aquarian has developed a sound that is both experimental and immediate, but above all, focuses on functionality. The resident techno provocateur at UNO NYC, Aquarian sound draws from both sides of the Atlantic, combining London, New York and Detroit with vertical singularity. Embracing the abrasive end of the techno spectrum, he involves breakbeats, belching TR-303 basslines and stomping, rough-hewn kick drums in his productions, pointing to hardcore, electro and Detroit techno as clear precedents. Aquarian doesn't reside in the past though, collating melodic elements from instrumental grime and bass weight from dubstep into his stripped down dancefloor bombs. 2012's Obsidian EP (out now on UNO) was his first official release as Aquarian and its gregarious, breakbeat-led energy is still wholly relevant two years later. A Randomer remix topped off Obsidian, adding an established name to the proceedings, but it's the raw, pent up energy of the originals that define the release. The Fan Death single, released in 2013 on UNO, acted as the follow up to Obsidian and saw the Aquarian sound reduced to its constituent elements, all dark atmospherics, in-your-f...

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