Antenna – Another Wave EP on Altered Circuits

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Antenna delivers “Another Wave EP”, a raw and immersive release on Altered Circuits, dropping on 2024-10-28. A true gem for DJs and fans of underground electronic music.

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Antenna – Another Wave EP on Altered Circuits – An Underground Gem

After recent explorations into ambient and pop under his full name, Sacha Renkas switches back to his Antenna moniker for ALT013. The Kiev-born, longtime Rotterdam-based artist uses a rough-around-the-edges, hiss-laden palette to construct his intricate, pensive club tracks. Often recording on the fly, he embraces the limitations and quirks of the hardware he works with, curating the happy accidents that come with them and that help make his music feel as alive as it does. It is emotional and imaginative in spirit, yet raw, almost instinctive in its rendering. Renkas cites the new wave and synth-pop from his youth and the sounds coming from Chicago and Detroit, as well as the Dutch West Coast he encountered later on, as inspirations. The sensitivity and hands-on approach associated with these are also tenets throughout his work. The Another Wave EP, a selection of tracks created over nearly a decade, further substantiates this approach. Made on multiple MPCs, Juno synthesizers, and an Akai S900, and mixed on a Mackie 16-channel mixer, it blends, among others, elements of first-wave techno and European proto-trance. Opener Alisa stacks angular sine melodies and formant basslines one upon another yet flows like silk, its balance immaculately kept in check. On Everyone M1, the bass organ patch from which the track derives its title finds itself amidst a lo-fi flux of capricious arpeggiators, ethereal pads, and decocted drums. Another Wave is a carefully sculpted slow burner, collected in its unfolding. Wisps of melody, gated pads, and whisper seem to wind between its drum patterns; the tension looming beneath this patchwork never entirely reveals itself. Quasar blends signature dramatic chords and off-rhythm bells with a creeping acid bassline and more kaleidoscopic drum patterns. It closes an EP distilled in its form, confident in its intent, and nowhere too bothered by genre boundaries or other formal constraints.

Tracklist

1. Antenna – Alisa Original Mix

   House | 123 BPM – F Major | 05:44

2. Antenna – Everyone M1 Original Mix

   House | 128 BPM – A Major | 05:28

3. Antenna – Another Wave Original Mix

   House | 129 BPM – Db Minor | 07:38

4. Antenna – Quasar Original Mix

   House | 124 BPM – G Major | 06:17