“An exciting new name in techno steps forward.
“These days, most techno feels either very intricate and clean, or very noisy and macho,” said Mehmet Irdel in the text for History Of Discipline, his recent release on The Bunker New York. “What interests me is finding an in-between.” The EP’s two tracks hit that spot spectacularly. Listen to how the title track’s drums clap like thunder while a world of sonic detailing opens up above. Or how on “A Mutable Constant” the tussle between light and shade creates unrelenting tension. Irdel is new to the techno scene, with two standout records for The Bunker as Løt.te (pronounced Loat-tey) released so far, but his work in music goes a way back. Under the umbrella of Rote Productions, the company Irdel co-founded with Andrew Chee that’s concerned with music, video, photography and graphics, he works as a visual artist and designer and a producer of blackened noise and soundscapes. It seems that Irdel sees his two disciplines as interchangeable: “I chose tracks that have a lot of texture and tension in them, which are important qualities to me in both music and visual work,” he tells us below.
There’s obviously no shortage of artists approaching techno from a sound-design perspective, but on RA.471 Irdel breathes new life into the formula. The pace and intensity of his selections feels like a throwback to a past techno generation, but, coupled with tracks from modern favourites like Stanislav Tolkachev, Shifted and AnD, the mix feels fresh and singular.”
Løt.te – Resident Advisor podcast #471 2015-06-08 [Uploaded.net download]
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