Format: Vinyl 12”
Cat: outis012
Label: Outis Music
Artist: Luigi Tozzi
Title: Ecate

Release Date: 16/04/2018

Distribuited by WAS

A year on from Luigi Tozzi and label head Dino Sabatini’s collaborative Manticora EP Outis return with a striking, singular solo work from Tozzi. Ecate EP sees the Roman producer bringing three distinct slices of techno, each with its own set of subtleties and the crystal, adept sound design that defines Tozzi’s work. Spanning the A-side is Ecate. This title track is rolling and hypnotic with muscular, percussive bass. Throughout the track, angelic chords come and go, washing the listener in euphoria. Alongside, we hear a disorienting melody, grounded by the lightly swung four to the floor kick that gives this track an infectious groove. The flip opens with Leto, which immediately defines itself as a club trackwith an unbroken but evolving set of percussion and a weighty kick. It’s around this kick that other elements build. We hear long, ringing, resonant string sounds and a bell like melody morph and unfold as other percussive components come and go. The track falls away into atmospheric eeriness, which perfectly sets the stage for the EP’s finale. Esperede’s swung, panning drums give it a disorienting feeling of otherworldliness from the get go. This is before you’re greeted by an alien, slightly dubbed out melody and a hanting backing drone that feels like a reference (perhaps in opposition) to the angelic chords of the EP’s first track. It’s on this closing track that Tozzi’s delicate, expert sound design best shines through.

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[OUTIS012] Luigi Tozzi - Ecate

OYTIΣ was used as a pseudonym by the Homeric hero Odysseus, when he fought Polyphemus Cyclops, and had put out the monster’s eye. Polyphemus shouted in pain to the other Cyclopes of the island that “Nobody” was trying to kill him, so no one came to his rescue. The story of the Cyclops can be found in the song of the Odyssey.
“Cyclops, you asked my noble name, and I will tell it; but do you give the stranger’s gift, just as you promised.
“My name is Nobody. Nobody I am called by mother, father, and by all my comrades.”
I feel inspired by this Greek character OYTIΣ (nobody)and  this label is named after him.
A sonic representation of the sensations I like to be possessed by.
This is exactly how I love techno and electronic music to sound like, this is what I love to dance to.

Dino Sabatini (2011)