Antix - AXXV
Tracklist
Information
- Artist : Antix
- Label : Iboga Records
- Format : 2 x 12" (180g)
- Sleeve : Gatefold
- Genres : ElectronicaTechnoProgressive House
- Estimated shipping date : August 2024
Description
At the heart of Antix XXV lies a 25-year story — a tale of exploration, growth, and the relentless pursuit of our sound. And as we unveil it, we can't help but feel the need to commemorate the dizzying heights of the years preceding it.
With each passing year, as the digital landscape of the electronic scene expanded and endless tours beckoned us to new horizons, the significance of our music grew.
It became more than just notes and beats — it became a vessel for our experiences and a reflection of our journey. From the hustlin' streets of Harajuku in the late 90's, where we first began collecting analogue instruments and shaping our sonic identity, to back home in Aotearoa, where we uphold and evolve it in our studio today, the journey has been nothing short of transformative.
From those days in Japan to our destined meeting with Phillip and his crew from Plastic Park Records in Germany a little later, our path was set. While our first EP, "Rainstick/Can't Quit" (Plastik Park, 2000), propelled us onto the map, it was our album Lull, released on Iboga Records in 2003, that truly solidified our place in the scene — a genre-defining oeuvre born from a whole lot of naivety and a fair share of brotherly madness.
As we return to Iboga Records — the Danish crew who welcomed us with open arms all those years ago and for every album since (Twincoast Discovery, Wanderers, Cavalier) — it feels like coming home again. But this time, we're returning with more than just an album: XXV is a reunion with our roots, a renaissance of the sound that first captured our hearts with Lull more than twenty years ago.
After a 14-year album hiatus, the time has come to present this new chapter to the world. And as we do, we extend our deepest gratitude to our loved ones, family, friends, and fans for your unwavering support, love, and hysteria on dance floors worldwide.
So here it is, XXV. A labour of love, a testament to the power of perseverance, and a celebration of the journey that brought us here. May it bring you as much joy in listening as it has brought us in creating it.
Arohanui from the Hui,
Antix
In a world that rewards novelty, the artists that endure display a relentless capacity for evolution.
Brothers Barton and Hayden Strom have been playing the wanton reinvention game since the late nineties, morphing between dissociative minimal techno, emotive trance, floor-destroying chug
-gery and frank psychedelia. Regardless of BPM or groove, the result somehow always sounds like Antix. A steady heartbeat runs through their music, syncing them to the Antipodean doof community, to their musical roots (from choral music to the nineties hip hop they spun on their parents’ Technics 1200) and to each other. With twenty-five years’ experience, genre boundaries melt away until all that persists is that human pulse.
The brothers’ promiscuous musical approach has taken their sound to influential labels (Iboga Records, Flow, Bedrock, Toolroom, Spiral Trax), to clubs and to massive festivals across five continent (through both DJ sets and live performances). Having learned their craft on sequencers and Digital Audio Tapes, Antix now take their pick of classic and breaking technology, fusing the monophonic squelch of their beloved SH-101 with the precision of digital VSTs. 2024 will see the release of their fifth album on heavyweight Iboga Records, marking a quarter century of musical experimentation. The ensuing tour dates will be unmissable for lovers of humanistic, spiritual dance music.
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