Separate States is a magnetic, otherworldly exploration of an artist caught in the crosswinds of two distinct worlds, each echoing a piece of the whole. The album flows with 5 tracks on mythical superpowers in trance music and 5 tracks on the tranquil hum of an endless coastline in dub techno—where heavy beats pulse in a consistent groove, and yet just beyond, an open horizon glimmers.

The journey begins in the arid, pulsing heart of Side A with El Desierto, a tribute to inmortal highlanders, vibrations in a mythical and retro uplifting experience. Life is Dance comes next with hypnotic rhythms and luring vocals, drawing the listener into a spaced out dub scape of underwater grooves. La Fiesta and Octatone carry this ethereal dream forward, each track a dance of textures, layers rising and falling like mirages under the fertile sun. The track Exi(s)t serves as both a culmination and a fracture—a razor’s edge between escape and return.

Flip to Side B, and the landscape softens, yet remains profoundly magnetic. Panorama Love unveils a vision of hazy sunlit reveries, leading into the lush, expansive sound of Serving XXL, where space and hypnotic sounds are intertwined, almost teasing the boundary between sound and silence. Telekon pulses but softly, carrying traces of neon reflections in its gentle, kaleidoscopic swells. Freedoom is open to interpretation but grounder as a hypnotic and ethereal track, while Planta en Paz plants roots in the sand, grounding the album’s restless spirit in something deep, timeless, and unexpectedly serene.

Separate States is a tale of dualities—of pulse and drift, ecstasy and release, of an artist split between worlds yet bound to both. A journey you can feel long after it ends, a tribute to minimal dub techno therefore a loving resonance that lingers in space.

El Desierto

London-based Spanish-born

Following a beautiful path to find and create the energy, frequencies and vibrations I love.

Founder of @MIDWEEKSESSION

El Desierto

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