Browse by Artist: UNDER, ALEX

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	Multiplicanciones2
Label:	APNEA (SPAIN)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	APNEA 007EP

"Multiplicanciones (Apnea003) was a journey full of techno in its purest expression. Alex Under is the man of the moment, after his fabulous first LP/CD for Trapez and before his debut on Plus 8 (Collage), one of the owners and padrinos of the NET28 saga (Apnea, CMYKmusik, Cyclical Tracks...), who signs the second chapter of this soon to become a classic trilogy, the elegant, deep and groovy Multiplicanciones2. If his shared project with Damián Schwartz, Música Charlista, is tearing dancefloors off around the world, his new Multiplicanciones2 confirms again and again the talent of this deepest beat chameleon, where clicks, frequencies, melodies and sweat breathe together reaching a new level of pure emotional and danceable magic. As he has recognised, his most personal music goes with Apnea... vanguard techno that knows no limits."

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	Gris Anthemo
Label:	CMYKMUSIK (SPAIN)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CMYK 016EP

"Gris Anthemo, on the colorful label from Madrid moves the body, stimulating the most powerful sexual organ: the brain. Both tracks are clearly D.O.T (Dancefloor Oriented Techno), and will produce big happy faces from the very first note. Emblematic and joyful, side A contains 'Gris': the next anthem of the unstoppable party -- pure fun, with a cult vocal sample included. Side B, 'Anthemo,' offers the more experimental side of this loop artist, understood as a hypnotic element capable of making a mass of zombies enter a trance. Fake congas -- because they are beats appearing and disappearing during the composition, and a lot of special effects draw an outstanding production that offers various interpretation options. Alex Under's sound has evolved a lot from Verde Guisante, his first release, but he feeds his own mythology, where multiple and mutant realities and free structures are common ground for an artist that loves to change his skin as lizards do. A state of mind that celebrates spontaneity."

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	Collage
Label:	PLUS 8 (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	PLUS 8088

"Collage is the debut for Madrid's Alex Under on Plus 8, delivering a sound that is complimented exactly by its title. A mastermind in blending a variety of electronic influences, his hybrid version of rhythm and sound is a moody mash up of jazzy yet experimental techno. His productions are based on deconstruction and variation with equal parts of humor and precision. The dancefloor-aimed 'El Encuentro' moves and weaves rhythm and percussion. 'Fortuito' is challenging as it is playful, starting off with scattered clicks grasping for the beat until the kick delivers, bringing the mood into gear with a simple loop melody and deep bassline. Not afraid to bring the beat, Under heads back to the floor for 'Distantes,' which kicks it into gear from the start, working a minimal approach into maximized power. His attention to noise, effects and off-key sequences can make your hairs on your neck stand up. Collage is the mixed beauty of a tough techno record complemented with elements of minimal purity. Madrid's man at large, Under the DJ and producer along with a crew of friends have been making waves with their CMYK and Apnea labels along with his excellent releases for Germany's Trapez."

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	Dispositivos de mi Granja
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 005CD

Repressed. "After two successful 12"s on Trapez and several EPs on his own label imprint CMYK, Alex Under has made it to the top techno house producers in Spain. His reputation rising also in other parts of Europe as his psychedelic and trippy techno and house is the sound of now for many people. His productions are based on construction/deconstruction, hypnotic melodies, over blunt electronic rhythms and fine basslines. A motto which could be applied to his style: 'Minimal techno, house, acid?... no prejudices and no frontiers.' Dispositivos De Mi Granja is Alex Under's debut LP. It not only includes an explosive version of his hit 'Las Bicicletas son para el Verano' from his first EP on Trapez, but also shows his large music variety for the first time on one format: contrasting minimal techno with playful techno house... ranging from deep techno to the most psychedelic track 'El Establo Queado.' 'El Establo Queado' is produced in the vein of his remix for Oliver Hacke. The track holds hypnotic techno-trance, with a Plastikman flavor and Daniel Bell's Chicago magic plus a modern vision of dance floor conception. Since Alex Under is playing live twice a week in European clubs, his tracks are all full of sweet, riding rhythms and nights full of action. For example 'El Ordeñador Personal' is a track that lives on tiny melodies working with jacking beats and big time melodies. Spanish melodies? Wonderful melodies embracing techno as well as house clubbers."

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	Las Bicicletas Son Para el Verano
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 047EP

"Directly from Madrid, Alex Under delivers his debut for Trapez. The owner of Cmykmusik seduces us with 3 tracks filled with his own trademark, clicky and groovy techno to burn any dancefloor around the world. Side A is a monster killer infused with mutant techno, fast and furious. Steve Bug meets Akufen in a two person elevator in Zagreb. A track that goes from craziness to minimal groove and back again. Leaves mouths wide open and eyes shut down. Side B contains what is his first approach to house music, with sampled vocals and deep and crazy rhythms, melting classic techno with his own vision of fractured dance music. Always innovative, Alex creates a flow that refuses to be linear, delivering a groove that changes and evolves constantly...his intention was to fuse the 3 basics of dance music, an hybrid containing the best of all of them: the groove of house music, the vitality and rawness of techno and the hypnotic melodies of trance. Alex has worked all the 3 tracks through a deconstruction process, remixing them from the initial basic track."

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	Sorbere Cerebros EP
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 051EP

"After his debut on Trapez with Las Bicicletas Son Para el Verano, Alex Under strikes again with his micro-sheepy-pumping techno, more cerebral than ever, not only by the reference to the tracklisting, but also because of the sheer, absorbent and precise tracks' construction. Unmistakable already by the way in which he joins, by way of collage, the most alienating rhythms and melodies, Alex Under submerges again in a rollercoaster of rhythms characterized by the way he assembles rhythms and alienates melodies as a very personal collage, Alex Under takes us on a rhythm roller coaster always mutating at every beat, transforming a legacy that goes from Detroit to trance, always keeping in mind that less is more. Mental stimulation and physical drive is the key to his tracks."

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	La Bicicletas Son Para El Verano Remixes
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 058EP

"In September 2005 he released his first groundbreaking album Dispositivos de mi Granja LP -- which followed his three EPs on Trapez. This new 12" features 'Las Bicicletas son para el Verano' remixes by two of Alex Under's most respected producers: the Vampire from Düsseldorf aka Oliver Hacke one of Trapez's core artists and Scottish Alex Smoke from Soma records. With his version of 'Las Bicicletas,' Oliver Hacke presents one of his most powerful techno pieces so far. Even stronger and more mighty than his previous hit records. A 100% techno universe... sounding as if techno had never happened. In comparison Alex Smoke starts cool and with much understatement. During the flow of his 'Rusty Bike Mix' Alex inserts powerful basslines building up friction and suspense. A very deep, evolving track with a long dynamic. A masterpiece."

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	Fe En Erratas
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 062EP

"Alex Under returns after his Trapez album with a big two- track slammer, fusing the Spanish rhythm and flavor that makes him so special to the post techno hemisphere. 'El Diluvio Azul' is an electric rhythm monster, which glows through its polyrhythmic patterns with tiny but shiny melody-notations connected with them as tight as only atoms can be attracted to each other. The track reminds a bit of Jeff Samuels 'Knob' but adds the Mediterranean love for this special groove that only Alex Under controls. 'El Diluvio Azul' docks on to Under's LP but strides even straighter towards the dance floor, sucking in emotions there and so wins in size continuous. Alex Under is the Spanish plastic man who manages to vitalize and actualize the the best moments of the past and then troughs them on the dance floor with skill. The opponent 'El Danubio Universal' has the bass line of the year! When after one minute Alex Under adds this bass line the world turns in a different direction. More minimal and sparse but fat in sound, this track rocks floors!"

Artist:	UNDER, ALEX
Title:	1,2,3 Responda O Trapez
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 074EP

Alex Under's 5th release on Trapez, 1,2,3, Responda O Trapez marks a difference in sound and design. The A-side track is a jolly groovy uplifting funkateer with acoustic sounds popping in and out to give it a cool breathing aura. "Trapezones Erectos" on the flipside is an alert techno monster that is based on a modulating alarm signal sound, micro melodies that are sped up, leading up to a crazy sequence in the last third of the track. "Otra Pezera" is a cool rhythmic track with voices and sounds from public places. It flows into a heavy, sequenced bassline and gives the DJ an opportunity to be creative.

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