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From the moment of its release, Iñigo Vontier's El Hijo Del Maiz (LN 024LP, 2019) has become one of the most gripping albums of the moment. With South American and Middle Eastern sounds and his conception of music as ritual, the Mexican DJ keeps electronica in check with a valid mix of influences. The EP El Hijo Del Maiz Remixes marks the end of an episode which started, in good company, last autumn on the Lumière Noire label. The second track, "Bo Ni Ke," is distinguished by its original -- almost implausible -- universe, with a Japanese-inflected vocal filter and oriental flutes taking the beats into a crazy trance. Leaning on a 4/4 rhythm, Simple Symmetry's remix of the track is also very playful (Vontier recently remixed "Nar" for Simple Symmetry). The Moscow duo pulls the track over to another, less terrestrial, more psychedelic universe, in their well-identified ethno-underground style. The remix of "Bo Ni Ke" by Nicola Cruz, a French-born Ecuadorian producer, enlivens the track by playing on the sounds of voices and South American percussion. The sounds here overlap with the demonological whims of Vontier but also those of Nicolas Jaar. The first track from the album, "Xu Xu" has been remixed by Roman Flügel, allowing a vinyl release of this incredible track. One could pick out the science of this headliner from a million. Flügel has been on the electronic scene since the early days, learning the ropes at prestigious labels Playhouse, Dial, and Klang. He has recently enhanced some emblematic tracks by Daniel Avery, Koze, Âme, Radio Slave, and C.A.R. and here once again the pioneer of techno is working miracles to create a more cerebral version of this track. Concluding the EP with Thomass Jackson, his co-founder of the label Calypso Records, Vontier offers up a genre-busting version of "Marijuana," like an ataxic play time, deliberately smoky for an explicitly licentious title.
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Hot off the heels of Aluxes, his 2018 Lumière Noire debut EP (LN 008EP), young Mexican DJ/producer Iñigo Vontier is inviting Chloé's label on a trip to the far corners of the body and mind with an album of demented grooves, psychedelic take-offs, and imaginary comic strips of mystical rituals. A bewitching debut full-length. The DJ/producer fully asserts his origins by brandishing the album's title El Hijo Del Maiz ("the son of the corn") almost as an emblem: "in Mexico, corn is eaten daily. It has long been defined as 'the gold of America', and I consider all Mexicans as children of corn". Whether contemplative or frenetic, the collection of tracks that make up El Hijo Del Maiz takes the kitchen sink and throws it out the window: languid rhythms, haunted vocals, and mysterious percussion fuel a discombobulated house set that scrambles the listener's five senses. Following the demented, dystopian "Xu Xu", which explores an imaginary jungle that harbored Mayan and Egyptian pyramids, Middle Eastern accents are once more present in the off-kilter "Bo Ni Ke" and its Japanese-influenced vocal trickery, which Moroccan flutes à la Jajouka transform into a feverish trance. With the following three tracks, Iñigo Vontier raises himself to the same level of excellence as the Pachanga duo (of which pride of the Mexican scene Rebolledo): the slumbering voice of "Awaken", heard as through the veil of hypnosis, slowly introduces a techno beat which literally brings the listener to a levitative state. In a house-ier vein, yet continuing in the same psychedelic, '90s-infused spirit, "Don't Go Back" disrupts the genre's usual signatures with an out-of-tune keyboard that is becoming the artist's trademark, destabilizing the listener into a drunken vertigo, with a good helping of sexiness. The ode to the magical herb "Marijuana" (featuring Thomass Jackson) proudly tramples into the debate that such a provocative title inevitably provokes. In the end, El Hijo Del Maiz is an album-length confirmation of Iñigo Vontier's uniqueness, and his adherence to Lumière Noire's policy of letting artists fully express their vision -- while letting their passions guide their idiosyncrasies and explorations of innovative electronic signatures. Also features Drugface and Beyou.
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Mexican producer Iñigo Vontier releases his fifth EP, including a remix from Tolouse Low Trax. "Aluxes" opens a channel to occult forces. The EP's title track, with its sparse, unfathomable voices and its bouncing, metered rhythm, is like a serene spell. The facetious "Patito" and its stubborn metallic rhythm brings back Vontier's precious dark disco essence. Detlef Weinrich's, a member of Kreidler, tasks his Tolouse Low Trax side project with remixing "Macaco". His remix is light-years from weekender minimal techno, and closer to Dopplereffekt.
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