Description
Minimal dance music is often mistaken for a specific genre. Remove the blinkers, and you'll find it can simply be a great idea executed exceptionally well. By this measure, Ruben Üvez, AKA Konduku, is one of the best. With a masterful and ever-shapeshifting understanding of rhythm, the Berlin-based artist crafts sublime leftfield dance music. Don't just take our word for it: how many can claim to have moved De School to a puddle of tears?
Üvez is hard to pin down. Often billed as a techno artist, his sound sits outside the genre's conventions. With an outsider's curiosity, he explores diverse moods, tempos, and genres, but his drum arrangements remain the throughline. From deep, Nobu-core techno on 2023's Hayal to UK beat science on 2019's Gegek, rhythm drives his productions and DJing.
Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, RA.967 is an excursion through a timeless sound, packed with long, layered blends, locked grooves and spine-tingling atmospherics.
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