Fourth Face, by Alex Ketzer

Fourth Face

by Alex Ketzer

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• 140 g 2 color splatter vinyl acidgreen / purple
• Ultra glossy cover w/ black innersleeve
· 92 mm labels on Tullis Russell paper
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• 140 g black EcoWaxx (from recyled vinyl)
• Ultra glossy cover w/ black innersleeve
· 92 mm labels on Tullis Russell paper
• Download code included

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1.	Fourth Face 05:34	buy track
2.	Xenon Eyes 04:33	buy track
3.	Symbol Zone (Dub Mix) 06:04	buy track
4.	Infinity Now 04:50	buy track
5.	Black Sun 05:18	buy track

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Alex Ketzer’s newest EP »Fourth Face« follows up right in the footsteps of his previous installments, continuing the Cologne-based producer’s endeavour of blurring the line betwixt abstract-adjacent techno and moody atmospherics through intricate narratives and vibrant motion. As ever with Ketzer, sound design is a matter of vital balance and focussed devotion, and no effort is spared in the sculpting of this dialogue between complex, slo-evolving soundscapes and surgically executed rhythms that unfolds as one fascinating audio-origami of sorts.

Typical of Ketzer’s subtle, tempered vision for dance music’s set of functionalities, the title track »Fourth Face« is a spitting sample of his craft, entrenched in ambient-laced pensiveness though purring with an understated tension that symbiotically breathes life in its own craggy landscape of jagged electronic sines and far-reaching poetics. Clad in darker envelopes, »Xenon Eyes« takes a shot at industrial techno but injects it with the synth-riddled iridescence of meditative electronica and awry, bubbly dynamics of the modular grammar to shape his own hybrid language.

All in on the rugged, sexy breaks and zero-G jazz getting soaked up in reverbs, »Symbol Zone (Dub Mix)« offers a magnificent view into Ketzer’s cinematic headspace, as it grinds fragments of decayed urban motifs with that of a more hopeful sense of melody-making. Tormented and ominous, »Infinity Now« shifts gears to establish a distinctly brooding facet of the German producer’s sound, criss-crossed by the maddened streams of stellar winds and anxieties at once, whereas »Black Sun« returns to a more serene state of stasis, again very much versed on the minute textural work and the heart-rending, brittle beauty of the piano.

A most compelling listen, the EP »Fourth Face« finds Ketzer at his most inspired and mature yet, deploying all evidences throughout its course that it indeed is the ripe upshot to a musician’s long evolving, ever-nurturing journey.

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released September 22, 2023

• Recorded and produced by Alex Ketzer
• Mixed by Roger »23« Reuter at Thee Phaynx
• Mastered by Tangible Air
• Photo & Artwork by Alex Ketzer
• Pressed by Matter of Fact
• Liner Notes by Baptiste Girou

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NOORDEN is a Cologne/Germany based label for electronic(a) music. We’re a collective of musicians, artists and designers releasing electronic music with an experimental DIY-flavor while pursuing our passion for carefully crafted artworks and special packagings at the same time. ... more

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