MXGN Puts The 303 Up Front On INXT Debut ‘Bring Back Acid’
MXGN launched his own label, INXT, on 6th November with ‘Bring Back Acid’. He recorded the hard techno single directly from hardware, with a 303 bassline doing as much to shape the track as the drums around it.
The percussion keeps a firm pace while the acid line keeps changing tone. As industrial hits and piercing synths build around it, the bassline gives you something to follow through the denser sections. A turn in the 303 can change the feel of the whole groove over the same drum pattern.
That relationship between the drums and the acid sequence goes back to the ’90s records that inspired MXGN. Here, the rough texture of the hardware has a clear place in the mix. The synths bring the sound of rave, and the drums give it the pace and weight to sit in a hard techno set.
The launch follows July’s ‘Fk This Track’ on Teletech and an October live set at Thunder at Mia Mao in Paris. For the first record on his own label, MXGN has put the way he works with his machines right where you can hear it.
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