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Exit Safe Mode’s second album, titled “Xtension”, immerses listeners in a sonic landscape where techno, dub, rave and ambient electronica converge with dark, atmospheric undertones. It encourages listeners to delve beyond the surface, exploring the depths and embracing the mysterious allure of electronic music. The album's pulsating rhythms and intricate melodies intertwine to create an evocative sound that is both haunting and exhilarating. With 18 tracks, punctuated with interludes, "Xtension" offers an extensive musical journey. Exit Safe Mode's skillful craftsmanship is evident in the ability to seamlessly navigate a diverse array of electronic subgenres, from meditative depths of ambient introspection to the frenetic energy of rave-inspired beats, with basslines serving as a unifying element that defines the album's sonic identity.

Tracklist
1. The View
2. As If By
3. From Within
4. Closer
5. Flowing
6. Eternal
7. The Speech
8. When Flames Take Over
9. Particle I (Sacred)
10. Loose Cannon
11. Particle II (Too Honest)
12. Dust Till Dawn
13. Particle III (Sorrow)
14. Ultraviolet
15. The Pursuit
16. Particle IV (One Hundred And Twenty Seconds)
17. Venom
18. Overdue

Artist: Exit Safe Mode
Title: Xtension LP
Label: Exit Safe Mode
Catno: exitsafemode3

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Margus Löve at Sudu Mastering / www.sudu.ee
Artwork by Martin Rästa.

Xtension

Xtension LP

Margus Löve has spent years skillfully mapping the essence of techno music, moving up and down the timeline to incorporate into his sound works elements such as the industrial rhythms transformed by the Yamaha DX7, the e-tablet pop music of Belgian dance floors, cold warehouse raves, the electronic abstractionism of the '90s generation, and the monotonous darkness of Berlin’s (new) school. The styles of different decades are always noticeable in his work, but they come filtered through his own musical lens—one that sifts out individual emotional moments instead of direct copying. These rhythm constructions or tonal textures, filtered with surgical precision, are always delivered back to the listener in a highly minimalist form.

This is also the case with the “Altered” EP (which actually should be labeled a maxi-single), where the minimalism of the tracks could be visualized as a triangle: one point being beats per minute, the second point echo-laden synthesizer sounds (which would be a stretch to call melodies), and the third being the track titles’ tags—dub and rave. The latter, dub and rave, begin to stretch one corner of the triangle, and though the overall number doesn’t change according to Pythagorean theory, the rhythm either accelerates or slows down, other sounds come closer with greater intensity or fade into the mist. While the overall structure remains the same and uses the same materials, the mood offered moves across a broad and rich spectrum.

The construction is simple, brilliantly balanced, and soothingly monotonous. But the words "rave" and "dub" add yet another layer—and this one is subconscious—where the listener imagines these mentioned musical styles in their mind. This fantasy play makes the music itself feel more abundant, offering more than just the recorded bits and bytes can allow.

As a fifth track, there's also “Altered Ambient,” where the beauty of the material’s simplicity comes out especially clearly. Here, everything is fully laid out and the airy space gives a better sense of the sounds used in the track. Flowing very quietly, it gives the listener more time to become familiar with every tiny sonic detail. Beautiful simplicity and the beauty of simplicity—from rave to chill out. 

1. Altered (Rave)
2.Altered (Rave Dub)
3. Altered (Dub Rave)
4. Altered (Dub)
5. Altered (Ambient)

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Margus Löve at Sudu Mastering.
Artwork by Martin Rästa.

https://exitsafemode.bandcamp.com/album/altered

Altered

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Margus Löve at Sudu Mastering.
Artwork by Martin Rästa.

1. Dual
2. Hybrids
3. Now Or Never
4. At The Core Level

https://exitsafemode.bandcamp.com/album/dual

Dual

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Margus Löve at Sudu Mastering.
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exitsafemode.bandcamp.com/track/outrave

Outrave

EXIT SAFE MODE
CAT.NO: exitsafemode1
12" VINYL + DIGITAL
Release date: 15th of February, 2016

01. Sonic Degradation
02. Call Of Life
03. Peripatetic
04. Catalyst
05. Exit

All tracks written and produced by Margus Löve
Mastering and lacquer cut at Dubplates&Mastering, Berlin
Distributed by Diamonds and Pearls Music, Berlin
Graphic concept by Martin Rästa

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Exit Safe Mode - exitsafemode1 - 12" + digital OUT NOW!

Exit Safe Mode, a project by the visionary Margus Löve, establishing himself in Estonian technoid music, has converged its sonic baggage into the newly released debut album Immerse. The spheres created and recorded during 2008 – 2017 are travelling in ambient landscapes, while deserving to be called genuine contemporary music for its clarity of thought and musical focus. These eight themes are reminiscent of the dubstep-ish flows of Löve’s earlier projects L-OW and 1DERL& that are giving way to more idiosyncratic lines. The depth of sound manipulations allows one to discover tones of life in the synthetic analog worlds and provides a body-forsaking sideview to the interpretations of stringed instruments. The created sonorous state of Immerse serves as an introduction to more rhythmic future affairs of Exit Safe Mode.

All tracks written, produced and mastered by Margus Löve.
Artwork by Martin Rästa.

Release date: 26th of March, 2018.

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B4.Exit Safe Mode - Raindrops

Exit Safe Mode, a project by the visionary Margus Löve, establishing himself in Estonian technoid music, has converged its sonic baggage into the newly released debut album Immerse. The spheres created and recorded during 2008 – 2017 are travelling in ambient landscapes, while deserving to be called genuine contemporary music for its clarity of thought and musical focus. These eight themes are reminiscent of the dubstep-ish flows of Löve’s earlier projects L-OW and 1DERL& that are giving way to more idiosyncratic lines. The depth of sound manipulations allows one to discover tones of life in the synthetic analog worlds and provides a body-forsaking sideview to the interpretations of stringed instruments. The created sonorous state of Immerse serves as an introduction to more rhythmic future affairs of Exit Safe Mode.

All tracks written, produced and mastered by Margus Löve.
Artwork by Martin Rästa.

To be released in March 2018.

B3.Exit Safe Mode - K Story

B2.Exit Safe Mode - Moving Shadows

B1.Exit Safe Mode - Encrypting The Past

A4.Exit Safe Mode - Aberration

A3.Exit Safe Mode - Curvature

A2.Exit Safe Mode - Intermediate

A1.Exit Safe Mode - White

Here's a guestmix for KTRL radioshow aired on the 5th of January 2018. The first half is ambient/electronica featuring a few tracks from my upcoming album "Immerse" which will be released in March. The second hour is for the floor. Enjoy!

KTRL Podcast #15 - Exit Safe Mode

Margus Löve has been a well known name to darktronica scientists over the years. The solo artist’s starting point after the change of millennium became the technoid end of drum&bass with the bubbling bass waves of speed garage and Löve’s style became substantially directed by dubstep that gained ground at the start of the 2000s. The name L-OW successfully propagated the bass-loving vibe at the prime time of dubstep, and in the background the dub-techno-esque parallel project 1DERL& got more and more off the ground. Founding of the label Processed in 2012 and the release of 1DERL&’s debut album became a spiritual turning point – the allure of the sounds of dubstep shifted to the background and darker soundscapes found a new home in cooler techno trances. Margus Löve has moved still deeper in the swamp of sounds with his new project Exit Safe Mode that is striving to cut through the safety nets and broaden the palette of sounds. The sounds are complemented by darker ambiences and rhythmic skeletons, while staying essentially loyal to the pulsating force of techno. It’s time to discover the shady territories beyond the untrodden tracks.

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