12/10/2023
Deeply grateful for this one! Much love Hypnotic Techno Circle!
DON'T MISS THIS MIX #19 👀
Floating Machine is what you call "a true musician"; a guitar, piano and sax player who has performed in various "sharp" musical genres from jazz to experimental music. More than a decade ago, he started to produce electronic music in the melodic techno realm, with beautiful melodies and, straight from the beginning, an obvious taste for the deep territories.
From the mid-2010s, his music was getting a wide amplitude, making his work more and more immersive. He started designing electronica releases in the vein (and level) of what Ultimae is doing: beautiful sounds and layers carried by smart beats, thinking for instance of "Wake Seed" on Authors Edition (https://floatingmachine1.bandcamp.com/album/wake-seed) or "Refractions on the Lake" on Mindspring Music (https://mindspringmusic.bandcamp.com/album/refractions-on-the-lake).
Some years later, he turned more and more "hypnotic techno", with for instance "Orvalho" on Circular Limited, containing the codes of the music of some of his heroes, such as Luigi Tozzi, Ness and Formant Value. In parallel, he designed one of the most creative and immersive ambient projects of 2021, "Armadilha" (https://floatingmachine1.bandcamp.com/album/armadilha), showing how much the Portuguese artist is first and foremost a sonic poet.
It's atop this long experience that he came up with the present mix, a masterpiece of electronic music, smooth, melodious and subtly dreamy, with impeccable technique and management of the energy, served with beautiful storytelling. It's simple, we've been screaming with pleasure in every single transition: a perfect mix to represent the "musical or**sm" - shall we dare to say - or at least an amazing add-on to aenean's eclectic podcast.
👉 https://soundcloud.com/aenean_rec/floating-machine-aenean-records
(Previous mix "not to be missed": https://www.facebook.com/hypnotictechno/posts/875916044059821)