Artist: Exos
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
Strength
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
After a number of EP releases and contributory to the mostly unknown withal esteemed Thule collective, Exos linked the ranks of the legendary techno mark Force Inc, where he took the next measure and released acclaimed full-length albums. Beginning with his Force Inc debut, Eleventh, the Icelandic producer born as Arnvidur Snorrason remarkably managed to write hard, up-tempo minimum techno that was dancefloor-ready as well as listener-friendly. This sometimes paradoxical match wowed many, as Snorrason took buffeting rhythms and integrated myriad variations in texture and refinement. The bulk of his tracks are driven by either banging 909 drum kicks or fertile dub beat generation at their instauration, only other than this, the tracks utilize a telephone number of preternatural esthetics, most of which never became a basic of his productions. While his debut meshed many with its seldom duplicated signified of variety, his followup, 2001's Strength, went a step farther, stretching kayoed to include more variations on the generic gruelling minimal techno sound, spell never acquiring besides experimental as to estrange the dancefloor crowd together. This on the face of it paradoxical ability to make concentrated, up-tempo, dancefloor-ready minimum techno that double as forward-looking stairs ahead into unfamiliar compositional territory made him ane of techno's most hopeful producers, even if his Icelandic roots made him an unlikely candidate.
