Top ten for August from Alpha Tracks featuring Dj Ibon, Caterina Barbieri and Oprofessionel.
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Felix Benedikt, alias Alpha Tracks, is a producer based in Vienna, Austria. At the beginning of the millennium, he received his basic musical education under the wings of the Cheap Records Family and started DJing. A few years later, in 2016, the Alpha Tracks project was born.
The first release on Erdem Tunakan’s reactivated label Morbid has had a strong international resonance. The music of Alpha Tracks is mainly produced live on analogue machines, sometimes with different guest musicians, focussing less on technical fetishism than on live dynamics of a studio environment. The result is a sound that refers to the rave era of the early nineties.
Alpha Tracks blithely ignores tempo limits or taste doctrines. Aesthetic taboos or even fragments of often maligned genres, are not picked up as a retro fetish but are folded into the contemporary oeuvre with playful Viennese charm.
Alpha Tracks ‘Kineta’ is out now. Listen on SoundCloud.