Manifesting techno as a warped and acerbic tangle of textures, Furtive hesitantly insists on blazing his own trails of unconventional sound design, trying to reconcile techno’s brutal, implacable presence with glittering, gossamer atmospheres, both in his studio work and in DJ sets.

Furtive grew up as a bit of a perpetual cultural outsider: born and raised somewhere in Southern California’s sun-weathered and dusty Inland Empire, but spending many formative years in Berlin, he grew up between three languages and even more histories. Furtive’s musical arc zigzags wildly: from classical music, russian pop, and a formative, fateful exposure to trance in childhood, to trashy metalcore and gabber in high school, and later to the transcendental worlds of gloomy experimental metal, cascadian singer-songwriters, and the thrill of exploring a dear friend’s vinyl collection on sunny afternoons. 

While Furtive’s production is fundamentally techno refracted through these aesthetic and conceptual sensibilities and some wacky studio idiosyncrasies, the real drive for his output is the creative cauldron of Washington, DC. Furtive arrived in the nation’s capital in early 2015, and immediately threw himself into the strange, scuzzy, and enchanting underground spaces of the District. In 2018, Furtive was tapped to join Sequence, and is now part of the colorful collective organizing some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. 

Furtive also moonlights as an illustrator, splattering ink and breaking crayons in the studio. 

Furtive’s world is a riot of color, sensation, and joy.

In his words:
“I aim for the stars, but sometimes I land in a pool of mermaids.”

Photo by the endlessly effervescent Carter Schneider (insta: @foolsnghouls)


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Tracklist:


WOLF & 111X - Wounded Alien (Astrosuka Remix)
Sophia Saze - Silent
Synthek - Flight Mode
Furtive - Sputnik VI (Mutilated Heroes [Weighing of the Hearts])
Fadeface - I
Mateo Hurtado - Beneath The Fabric
Furtive - Zamenis
Erika - Gardeners (Israel Vines Remix)
Arthur Kimskii - Verbal Variance
Desroi - Lines Of Sight
Furtive - Puncture
The Effaith - Klapz
Furtive - My Skull Is An Alien Terrarium
Dave Tarrida - A Vicious Venom (Lado Remix)
Furtive - Opilione

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