tracklist :
01. mental escape 
02. the dark voice of angels
03. calls of the middle-east
04. to protect and to serve
05. creatures of the darkness
06. medieval heresy
07. under fence
08. international space station iss
09. weapons factory
10. missile attack
11. flights for death
12. the dark voice of angels - Oil 10 remix 
13. medieval heresy - Displacer remix

 

Brume records seems to be one of the many labels that covers the space between industrial and dance music. Their latest CD is by a project called OTX.
On this CD we find a mixture of industrial beats, more dance like tunes and slight drones, voices and samples. Although it is not a bad record, it is certainly not very original or extremely well produced. In short, it is a bit (too) marginal.
The press release talks about influences of Pierre Schaeffer, Philip Glass, Orbital, Autechre, Aphex Twin and many other original and well known acts. I do not recognize any of the influences mentioned, since the grand denominator of these artists seems to be that they were highly influential because of their technological skills and musical insights. Both of these important factors seem to be missing on this release, which makes me conclude that the press release is way too pretentious.
The best tracks on the record are the remixes by Oil10 and Displacer, two French acts that have released some excellent records on labels such as M-tronic and Vacuum.

Funprox

Atmosphères ténébreuses, climats mystérieux et cinématographiques, envolées lyriques et rythmiques puissantesS Le jeune producteur OTX à de quoi séduire les amateurs de septième art. Cet Italo-Anglais installé à Paris manie en effet avec une maîtrise certaine tous les éléments clés des bandes originales de la nouvelle vague hollywoodienne. À l¹image de nombreux compositeurs de BO actuels, OTX mêle à des influences classiques, mélodies synthétiques et production électronique. Auxquels il faut ajouter ch¦urs, bruitages et autres détails sonores, qui achèvent de donner à son album l¹aspect d¹une BO de film entre descente aux enfers urbaine et rêverie
cyber. Les amateurs de musique industrielle, ceux qui suivent notamment les aventures sonores de Manu Le Malin ou de Laurent Hô, trouveront aussi leur bonheur dans cet Escape au son puissant et à la production particulièrement impressionnante. Le défaut de ce premier disque prometteur, est aussi celui de nombreuses BO ou de productions ³électro-indus². Un certain sens de l¹emphase, quelques effets pompiers et des ambiances par trop nauséeuses limitent parfois l¹imaginaire.

Jean-Yves Leloup / Trax Magazine

Voici un excellent album qui s'inscrit dans la grande tradition du dark-ambient cinématographique, renouant ainsi avec des atmosphères sonores dignes de Reload-Ambient (Seekness, etc.). Rythmiques martelées et nappes sombres s'entrelacent dans des figures très narratives. Une narration soulignée des effets, des samples et des bruits qui accentuent le climat post-industriel de ce premier album. Si cette B.O. imaginaire s'affirme dans un décor de friche urbaine ("Weapons factory"), le livret montre aussi des préoccupations socio-politiques, voire philosophiques, au travers des quelques lignes de commentaires qui accompagnent les titres ("Calls of the Middle-East", "To protect and to serve", "Missile attack"). Deux remixes signés Oil 10 et Displacer viennent couronner l'ensemble.

Laurent Diouf / Coda Magazine

Pour cette 11ème production, Brume Records nous offre une fois de plus un artiste non dénué de talent: OTX. nous plonge dans un univers cinématographique aux accents électronica (voire électro sur les derniers titres) des plus prometteurs.
"Escape" nous confronte à une exploration d'un monde éthéré, irréel mais à la fois riche et palpable, où se côtoient intimement les plages électroniques sombres et les galets rugueux des boîtes à rythmes.
Onirique, cet album constitue un véritable échappatoire à la triste réalité, renforcé par les textes bruts et les images explicites du livret liés à chaque titre (le remarquable travail visuel de Massengrab complétant admirablement ce concept d'évasion sonore), histoire de nous enfoncer un peu plus en profondeur.
Les 11 titres et les 2 remix s'enchaînent les uns après les autres sans jamais interrompre notre voyage. Oil 10 nous gratifie d'un remix de The dark voice of angels fidèle à lui-même et Displacer clôt l'album avec un remix de Medieval heresy positif à souhait nous comblant d'émerveillement.
En bref, si vous avez besoin d'une catharsis, échappez-vous et partez à la conquête de la virtualistion.

convulsions sonores

Released by the French label Brume Records, "Escape" is the very promising and mature debut album by the one-man musical project OTX.
One thing is readily noticeable upon hearing this CD: the precise rhythmical constructions which are extremely robotic and which, at times, acquire something of a martial aspect as well. The rhythmic structures, quite complex and filled with subtle nuances, are the base of the music in this album, ultimately being the cornerstone in which all the music is build. Simple and ambient-like melodies are layered with the rhythmic structures and, when combined with precise and skillful placement of choice samples, ultimately define the moods and concepts built by the main musical structures with scary clarity.
"Escape" appears to owe a lot to trance and ambient music, combining aspects of both in varying measures and adding a hevy dose of industrial and experimental influence. Like trance, OTX's music is somewhat hypnotic and has a drift-like quality. However, OTX takes things to another level: the music, and the feelings conveyed by it, become crisp and definitely much more intense with mechanical rhythms inducing body movement of an almost robotic kind. In its more ambient aspect, "Escape" is very brooding and contemplative. The industrial-like rhythms are still present but they enhance the ambiance, inducing contemplation. In some points, the music in "Escape" can even become somewhat disturbing, especially if one gives some attention to comments in the accompanying booklet.
"To Protect and to Serve" is the first track that comes to mind as worthy of particular mention in this album, a very strong track with a "on the prowl", almost predatory, feeling to it and a sense of oppressive urban dystopia. "Weapons Factory" easily comes across as the dance-floor track by excellence while tracks like "International Space Station ISS" and "Calls from the Middle East" are in stark contrast as brooding ambient tracks.
The two last tracks are remixes by Oil 10 and Displacer, who seem to be very popular remixers nowadays. Competent remixes as always (as would be expected) and rather recognizable as well, especially Oil 10 who has a very melodic approach. Two very interesting additions to an excellent album. Another interesting addition is the video-clip track. A simple and interesting video by Stepháne Berla perfectly translating into image the music of that which is the most dance-floor oriented track in this album, "Weapons Factory".

Connexion Bizarre

A slow, pulsating bass opens up this album and soon multilayered, flowing synth lines build up to what is to become a spellbinding journey, taking you through hypnotizing landscapes ranging from untamed organic structures in the wilderness to rusty abandoned factories left to their own devices.
OTX is a solo project and, apart from soundtrack composers, he claims to be inspired by the likes of Tangerine Dream, Autechre and The Orb etc. To label and put this debut in the usual constraining genre-box would neither be fair, nor possible. But to give you a hint: this genius blends ambient, dark electro, dub, electronica and trip hop all spiced up in a pot with a few spoken words here and there.
The only track that seems to break with the continuity is the less fortunate, trancey "Weapons Factory" (the CD includes a video for the track), but taking fascinating highlights such as "To Protect And Serve", "International Space Station" and Oil 10's (another mastermind from Brume Records) treatment of "The Dark Voice Of Angels" into account, all is forgiven. Displacer ends the trip and gives us a soft landing with a remix of "Medieval Heresy".
Keep in mind, though, that the album demands to be listened to as a whole, in order to fully appreciate the liquid and metallic soundscapes mating with the crispy rhythms and beats. The superb sound and production of the album might leave a few of the artists out there with a nagging envy, and this release proves that music, like any other artform, should be flowingfree from inspired minds - not clinging itself in accordance to a set of preset, stereotypical patterns.

Club Metropolis

Escape is a deep, dark and thickly layered atmospheric album, and a union between Anglo-Italian composer, OTX and French filmmaker, Stéphane Berla, German photographer Katrin Gutershausen and graphic designer Mathieu Orioli. Throbbing electronics seethe and illuminate the atmospheric backdrops throughout, which are particularly cinematic in their design. Waves of effects and samples then pierce the gloomy tranquility, which often explodes into action.

Bearing in mind those involved, Escape is more of a concept album than anything, tracks such as To Protect And To Serve, wallow in a fear-ridden wasteland, with gunshot samples used to heighten the atmosphere; it’s a soundtrack to a film that has yet to be made. With titles such as Weapons Factory and Missile Attack, it’s likely that Escape holds a political message of sorts, but this never interferes with the primary motive, to create excellent, electronic soundtrack music.

Creatures Of The Darkness slowly undwinds from it’s frenetic watery percussive soup to deliver some touching ambience, which builds tastefully into Medieval Heresy, a sample ridden, slow-paced orgy of wistful ghostly chants and cinematic moods. International Space Station is a particular highlight, taking the doom and gloom of a waring planet into the stars. It’s predictably yet beautifully done, as the track evolves into thudding beats and hypnotically charmed flowing synth melodies.

The aforementioned Weapons Factory and Missile Attack are then glued together by their compulsively driven bass throbs, percussion and cacophony of samples, which, it has to be said, are expertly forged. Two remixes are thrown in to close the CD, from Oil10 and Displacer, and you’ll need Apple Quicktime to watch the video-clip of the track Weapons Factory.

All in all, Escape is a triumph. Unmissable for fans of soundtrack music, but easily resolute and diverse enough to listen to without moving image accompaniment. This is on another level to similar albums of its type.

Barcodezine

OTX is the latest project out of the fantastic Brume Records label. This talented Anglo-Intalian composer offers up his debut album in the form of "Escape" - a futuristic journey into Dark Ambient sounds that fuse together with elements of Industrial, Electronica and IDM. Highlights include "To Protect And Serve," "International Space Station ISS" and "Weapons Factory." At times, OTX reminds me of slower more mellowed out version of Somatic Responses. The use of dark atmospheric backdrops and gloomy industrial imagery make "Escape" an amazing experience and one I'm glad I went on. Highly recommended.

GunHed / Wetworksezine

Great design and even greater content brings us last work from the workshop of Brume records. This time it's Italian protagonist, whose first official release is some kind of new technological revolution. Influenced with movies soundtracks, he combines his musical examples with strong, hypnotic electronics. Great sound park, atmospheric surfaces attacks technoid rhythm patterns and almighty industrial infantry of non-terrestrial samples. Besides audio recordings, cd contains also multimedia part in form of video clip and two remixes, one signs project Displacer. Excellent debut, next comments would be probably in vain, you definitely have to listen to it....

Aliens

I have to make a declaration of love to production of French label Brume Records and I always impatiently wait for its new releases. Probably this passion is conditioned by the fact that musicians of this label reciprocate me by means of their music and up till now they have never disappointed me. I really like modern, deep and versatile electro-industrial tracks of FLINT
GLASS, OIL 10, ZONK'T and DATA RAPER, but now it's time to make escape to other reality together with mysterious 26-years old anglo-italian protagonist OTX.
Album "Escape" is debut of young electronic composer. And what a debut it is! Fascinating, similar to hypnotic dreams visual compositions, which force to look in a new fashion on such electronic genres as industrial, trance, dark ambient and drum-n-bass, flash by in front of us. And very fat accent is given to "cinematographicity" and big scale of sound, what makes music of OTX related with tracks of bands SPIES, FLINT GLASS, CYDONIA and MLADA FRONTA.
But newcomer definitely has own style and his imagination paints pictures of other fantastic worlds. Regardless the dark entourages, suction hallucinogetic landscapes and mighty rhythms, there is a place in these worlds for deep emotions, innocent atmospheric female voice, good melodies, electroacoustic experiments and powerful dance-spiritual sorcery. In other words, OTX uncommonly manoeuvres between smooth, thick, colorful ambient tunes, massive bass-lines, speedy breakbeats, trance pulsations and direct industrial beats.
As a result several tracks on album can be added to armoury of djs, who like to surprise crowd by electronic diversity of energetic sets and fill dancefloor with dark mystic atmosphere (I recommend you to pay attention to tracks "Calls of the Middle-East", "To protect and to serve", "Under fence" and "Weapons factory").
So, be ready that during listening to album you'll face the creatures of darkness, will hear dark voice of angels, will visit international space station and strange weapons factory, will make fly to death and get under rocket attack.
I came to conclusion that album works well in different situations and it's impossible to classify OTX music only as pure kinoambient, mutation of trance, experimental or dance industrial. I consider this as plus.
Finally, great bonuses to album are remixes done by projects OIL 10 and DISPLACER, which I hope don't need special representation. OIL 10 made from song "The dark voice of angels" brilliant cold and melodic synthetic number, directly oriented to club dancefloor, and DISPLACER smartly diluted "Medieval heresy" by light distorted drum-n-bass strokes and warm idm-effects, converting track into very moving, beautiful and fragile sonic mirage. But this is not the end! You'll find on CD curious industrial videoclip on song "Weapons factory", directed by French filmmaker Stephane Berla. Do you want to see dance of excavators on building site and spontaneous visual kaleidoscopes?
As you can see, everything points out that "Escape" is very nice album and I only can wonder at good musical taste of Brume Records chief Gwenn Tremorin and his rare feeling for such talented guys as OTX. He continues to release new music in perfect quality and stylish artwork on his little underground label. Obviously that this company prefers quality to quantity of releases and therefore we have a right to link with OTX certain hopes.
[9/10]

Valentin / Labella.h1

It's no longer a secret, that music and cinema has practically always developed side by side and nowadays it is quite difficult to find a product of modern cinematography totally free of a music component. I reckon such a layer of electronic music as visual music to be quite formed and we can use the notion cinematography sound, that causes this special spatial effect immersing in a condition of meditation and making one's imagination draw various pictures of the virtual worlds. Having however no aim to reveal the advantages or lacks of such music, I only want to tell to you about the components of an elixir with name Escape, creation of a talented English-Italian composer hidden behind the pseudonym OTX. This work was released by the remarkable French label Brume Records, the cradle of such respectable collectives as Flint Glass, Oil 10, Zonk't and contains alongside with album compositions also remixes from Oil 10 and Displacer, and also a video on the track Weapons factory.
??? unwraps a musical canvas in front of our eyes, an ocean of sounds, huge and dozing in gloomy calmness which then is blown up into grandiose boiling and violent storm. It is an odd world of illusive visions of the Middle Ages that organically adjoin the violent pictures of futuristically urbanised future. It is a cinema, you are a spectator here, captivated, looking at the huge screen where series of images flying along, sometimes painfully clear, sometimes on the contrary foggy and illusive. The discharged and beheld sound collage: as though you soar up in the sky over the ocean of light clouds and watch serenely the world around. So welcome, our kind reader, into the world of ??? that exists in our imagination no longer than an hour.
This world is weaved with cool, visual electronics and dark ambient futurism, sudden tenacious, gnashing technoid rhythmic lines and deep, pathetic acoustic bits that come to replace them, fragmentary idm sketches, volumetric drum'n'bass, monolithic industrial, superficial female voices and air choral sketches. All this has mingled in a common raging endeavour. The only thing left is to season the broth with queer indistinct and string shots, with the noise of engines and extraterrestrial chorales, disturbing but bewitching far shouts and phone calls, a cracking of a flame and noise of water, a booming inevitable sound of marching inquisition groups and harmonious work of the industrial weapon giant, organ meditations and unidentified timbres, children voices and iron groaning under pressure.. Thus the elixir is ready. You try it and it will take you far into the past where the plague rages, but a bit later you will find yourself rushing among flashing fires in the streets of a metropolitan of the future and then - in the middle of odd sci-fi entourage of a space station so that later on, the strike of the clock would announce that it is hightime to set out the last flight towards death. Right, unfortunately the ending is like this it is cold, majestic, apocalyptic and has a bitter smack of realisation of the fleeting nature of all real.

Alexander Grimm

Il solo peccato dell`uomo sembra essere nella sua stessa esistenza
Il debutto di questo giovane anglo-italiano si attesta tra le produzioni vicine a una elettronica intelligente, evoluta e spinta più verso la ricerca di paesaggi immaginari che verso i toni classici e ammiccanti dei dance floor. Nel suo caso si parla di una electro arricchita da influenze industriali, momenti minimali e partiture trance; su questo tappeto sonoro si poggia poi un immaginario legato all`ormai noto concetto di matrice e a una forte critica nei confronti dell`umanità e dei suoi aspetti più scabrosi, violenza, guerre e odio su tutti.
L`idea alla base di "Escape" è quella di realizzare una specie di partitura, una colonna sonora che poggi lo sguardo sul crollo dell`umanità e della sua civiltà. Il risultato è un lavoro ancora altalenante, che riesce a coinvolgere solo a tratti. Sembra di trovarsi di fronte a tre atti quasi distinti. I primi tre brani, il migliore dei quali è "The Dark Voice Of Angels" presente anche nel remix di Oil10, sono cupi ma costruiti su basi ancora calme: mostrano, l`adesso. I ritmi salgono nella seconda struttura che attacca bene con "To Protect And To Serve" e porta le ritmiche a fare un passo in avanti. Brani discreti che però avrebbero bisogno di essere maggiormente incisivi. Dovrebbero graffiare di più nei suoni. Decisamente migliore la terza parte, dove ci si avvicina alla trance, "Weapons Factory", e in cui l`adrenalina inizia a esplodere davvero.
In conclusione "Escape" è un lavoro interessante, ma che non sempre riesce a coinvolgere davvero, rimanendo così un debutto con alcuni punti a suo favore ma anche con alcuni momenti di stanca.

Federico Tozzi / Kronic

BRUME RECORDS avait fait fort en 2003 avec la sortie du ARENA de OIL 10, qui fut pour une grande partie de la confrérie électro industrielle la meilleure sortie francaise de cette année et un succés enfin mérité pour Gilles Rossire partout dans le monde . Il semblerait que nous tenions avec OTX son pendant 2004, une véritable révélation, un album à ne manquer sous aucun pretexte !!!!
ESCAPE est le premier album composé par notre Italo-Anglais de OTX , ses influences sont autant hétéroclites qu' argentiques et cinématiques. Un véritable voyage dans les tréfonds d'une electronica ambiante inspirée et évocatrice des meilleurs sensations. On se complait dans les vertiges maitrisés où OTX s'amuse avec nos émotions en passant par des ambiances ethno-urbaines à la FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON ou encore dans des scénarios futuristes dans la même veine que ORBITAL ou encore FLUKE . Pourtant chaque morceau est imprégné par une ( déjà ) main de Maitre de ce nouvel arrivé sur BRUME RECORDS. La production est hyper pointue et professionnelle, le mastering est divinement jouissif.
Devant le pléthore d'excellentes pièces, je ne saurais que vous conseiller le morceau magistral INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ISS ou le BPM augmente sensiblement par rapport au reste de ESCAPE , et qui vous ouvre une petite porte dans le cortex cérébral , 200% de plaisir garanti .
A noter les remix remarquables de OIL 10 ( alchimie parfaite ) , mais également celui de DISPLACER , à noter leur collaboration pour la compil aXc_labs seconde sortie du label axesscode .Alors je répète une derniere fois, album indispensable pour tous les amateurs d'electronica et assimilés.

Dogme / Axesscode

L’auditeur suit O.T.X dans le dédale urbain sombre et pluvieux, monde d’anticipation cyber punk salle et lourd comme « Blade Runner », que dessine pas après pas « Escape ». Il n’est pas ici question de ligne mélodique donnant le ton mais de se laisser submerger par les atmosphères pesantes de bloc en bloc, à la dimension cinématographique avouée, projetées par l’electro ambiante d’O.T.X. Car les déclinaisons d’« Escape » offrent une des dimensions mentales, les restantes sont à la charge de sa propre imagination. Inquiétantes ou effrayantes, les ruelles traversées laissent transparaître le cœur de la ville, grondement sourd et régulier. L’humain semble avoir été remplacé par l’électron, les âmes se meuvent par ondes et le vide ne demande qu’à s’emplir des mélopées tour à tour ambiantes, industrielles ou drum’n’bass.
« Escape » est la carte torturée d’un univers visuel intangible, au détour duquel on croise Aphex Twin, Ulver ou Hanz Zimmer.

Obskure

OTX is a talented Anglo-Italian composer of electronic music. His music contains influences of soundtrack composers like Hans Zimmer or Jocelyn Pook, electronic and avantgarde pioneers like Philip Glass, Steve Reich or Tangerine Dream and modern electronic intelligent dance pioneers like Orbital, Autechre, Aphex Twin and LFO. Escape is his debut cd and has been released on the French Brume Records label, specialized in experimental electronics. On this cd OTX managed to create a world in which sound and image are merged together, this has been done by creating and composing the music in such a way the listener almost automatically starts to creat its own images with the music. Most of the tracks are atmospheric dark drum&bass tracks with a variety of little sounds emerging and fading away constantly. Some tracks have a slow industrial rhythm, sounds of breaking glass and flares of vague innocent voices, other have a fast paced rhythm which also has some resemblance to modern dance or industrial music. Next to that, there are also pieces of music with a organic sound created by the use of accoustic instruments or distorted voices in combination with exciting rhythms and sounds. It’s no use reviewing every single track because that would spoil the joy the listener could experience while listening to this album. It is album with music of pure imagination. Very special. I will listen to this often, no doubt about that.
9/10

Gothtronic

Parfois, de jeunes artistes enfoncent les portes dès leur premier album car ce dernier possède d'emblée une maturité que certains n'atteignent qu'après plusieurs essais. Otx fait partie de cette catégorie.
Richesse sonore, mix d'ambiances, recherche stylistique, Escape est un peu tout ça. Cette production pourrait se décrire comme un cheminement logique, un voyage virtuel. Y laternent moments de relatives accalmies ambientes durant lesquelles le rythme s'efface au profit d'un enchevêtrement sonore complexe et contrasté, et titres franchement dansants, grooves technoïdes et drum n'bass en soutient.
Les structures sont changeantes, fracturées, comme une conjuration de la linéarité. Sans cesse, un détail vient s'ajouter, un groove s'élabore de minute en minute, une atmosphère se modifie.
Le penchant electronica est bien évidemment présent, égal sans supériorité au reste des influences, véritable mimétisme circonstanciel dans lequel chaque drone, chaque sonorités indus ou noisy, trouve sa place avec naturel et spontanéité.
Mention spéciale pour les deux remixes, très intéressants et utiles par le simple fait qu'ils se détachent avec interêt du reste de l'album.
Un artiste à suivre, car il semblerait que ce nouveau venu tende sa musique vers un certain engagement (les textes du livret le prouvent sans equivoque) mais également, et de façon globale, vers la recherche sincère de pluralité musicale.

Infratunes

Wer diese CD bestelleWer diese CD bestellen will, sollte sich am besten mal bei Ant-Zen in dessen Mailorder umsehen, denn die vertreiben meist solch abgefahren geniale Sachen, die auf einem französischen Label erscheinen, wobei es sich hier um italienisch-englischen Komponisten handelt, doch zunächst erst mal eins nach dem andern....
Hinter OTX verbirgt sich ein 26 jähriger Composer, welcher hier Dark Ambient Electronic der feinsten Sorte bietet. Eigenständig und abgedreht, aber dennoch mit einem soundtrackartigen Charakter, den man sich wohltuend anhören kann, ohne hysterisch zu werden. Beim Experimentieren geht OTX ziemlich gekonnt an die Grenze zwischen eingängigen Strukturen und innovativen Rhythmus- und Soundgeflechten, die den Hörer fordern. „To Protect and to Serve" ist hier ein gutes Beispiel wo sich herkömmliche Beats mit einem kleinteiligen Rhythmusteppich über 6 Minuten verknüpfen und dann wieder auflösen, währen andere Stücke düstere Klangteppiche mit trippigen Rhythmen Klicks und Beats kombinieren.
„International Space Station ISS" driftet sogar in fast poppige Gefilde ab ehe es dann wieder straight ans Eingemachte geht und „Missile Attack" oder „Weapons Factory" eine düster harte Schiene fahren. Am Ende finden sich dann noch 2 Remixe, wobei besonders der ruhige „Displace Remix" von „Medieval Heresy" begeistern kann.
Als Bonus sollte es auch noch einen Video Clip von „Weapons Factory“ zu bestaunen geben, nur scheinbar hat man diesen im Presswerk glatt vergessen, denn zu finden ist er auf der CD nicht!
Fazit : Dark Ambient Electronic vom feinsten. Eigenwillig, aber nicht zu stark abgedreht! (AB) n will, sollte sich am besten mal bei Ant-Zen in dessen Mailorder umsehen, denn die vertreiben meist solch abgefahren geniale Sachen, die auf einem französischen Label erscheinen, wobei es sich hier um italienisch-englischen Komponisten handelt, doch zunächst erst mal eins nach dem andern....
Hinter OTX verbirgt sich ein 26 jähriger Composer, welcher hier Dark Ambient Electronic der feinsten Sorte bietet. Eigenständig und abgedreht, aber dennoch mit einem soundtrackartigen Charakter, den man sich wohltuend anhören kann, ohne hysterisch zu werden. Beim Experimentieren geht OTX ziemlich gekonnt an die Grenze zwischen eingängigen Strukturen und innovativen Rhythmus- und Soundgeflechten, die den Hörer fordern. „To Protect and to Serve" ist hier ein gutes Beispiel wo sich herkömmliche Beats mit einem kleinteiligen Rhythmusteppich über 6 Minuten verknüpfen und dann wieder auflösen, währen andere Stücke düstere Klangteppiche mit trippigen Rhythmen Klicks und Beats kombinieren.
„International Space Station ISS" driftet sogar in fast poppige Gefilde ab ehe es dann wieder straight ans Eingemachte geht und „Missile Attack" oder „Weapons Factory" eine düster harte Schiene fahren. Am Ende finden sich dann noch 2 Remixe, wobei besonders der ruhige „Displace Remix" von „Medieval Heresy" begeistern kann.
Als Bonus sollte es auch noch einen Video Clip von „Weapons Factory“ zu bestaunen geben, nur scheinbar hat man diesen im Presswerk glatt vergessen, denn zu finden ist er auf der CD nicht!
Fazit : Dark Ambient Electronic vom feinsten. Eigenwillig, aber nicht zu stark abgedreht! (AB)

Surfacemagazin

"...Shot through with elements of dark ambience, heavy percussion, flirtations with IDM signal processing and the sweaty dance floors of underground urban clubs, Escape can very easily be heard as just that: an escape from the norms, an adventure into a world lit by the saturated colors of heavily-filtered cinema..."
Escape is the efforts of a 26-year old Angelo-Italian composer who records under the three-letter moniker OTX. Suffused with his fascination with cinema and soundtrack work, Escape plays out like the musical accompaniment to a Terry Gilliam or Ridley Scott version of the near future. Shot through with elements of dark ambience, heavy percussion, flirtations with IDM signal processing and the sweaty dance floors of underground urban clubs, Escape can very easily be heard as just that: an escape from the norms, an adventure into a world lit by the saturated colors of heavily-filtered cinema.
A single voice runs through "The Dark Voices of Angels," softly lamenting the single line of text which it has on its lips. Glass fractures in the background and tiny metal shards tap together over a propulsive beat pattern. It's a solitary ride across the empty miles of late night highways that bisect modern cities, the yellow and blue flash of city lights a rhythmic pattern across the rain-dappled windshield. It's introspection at the last hour of night when we are all tired and lonely enough that we can imagine that our pleas will be responded to by the voices of angels.
The martial rhythm of "Calls of the Middle-East" move us faster through these imagined urban landscapes. The lone voice ululating in the background is a call to the wilderness, a tugging insistence that we turn towards the west and the rising sun. "Creatures of the Darkness" is surprisingly light, filled with analog synth tones like a sweeping Pete Namlook anthem. The monsters lurking here are restricted to rumbling in the background as transitory breaths of black mist and their claws are but tiny knives that dance and caper like chipmunk rhythms.
"Medieval Heresy" brings modern squelch and noisy detritus to the crusades of the 12th century. Very much a score for a Luc Besson-lensed chronicle of the Cross waving and Crescent shaking that went down on the desert plains of the Middle East, "Medieval Heresy" blends the right touch of field recordings, haunted choruses and electronically augmented percussion. The electronics are taken up a few notches in "Weapons Factory," a floor-burner of a trance track augmented by radio transmissions from the International Space Station and bursts of super-heated steam.
Escape makes me wish I had a digital video camera. OTX has a deft hand at bringing some new sounds and structures to the basic genre trappings and his "soundtrack" work generates all manner of expressive footage in my head. This begs to be attached to a Koyaanisqatsi-esque videologue of the modern human urban experience. Very nice.

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