Label: LOKD
Listen: Link
Year (release): 2023
Genre, primary: Deep techno
Genre, secondary: Dub techno
Catalog number: LOKDLP001
Country of origin: Switzerland
Toying with the familiar but not afraid to break with expectations, AVEM presents a versatile range of works that make up his debut album.
Dream State was largely written and produced in times of the pandemic, specifically during lockdown periods — a context that grants the album an air of melancholic isolation. Offering seven songs on a double LP, it marks the collective imprint LOKD’s vinyl premiere. Merging sounds of Electronica, House and Techno, LOKDLP001 finds its place neatly outside of common categories.
Dream State tells an ephemeral tale of the uncertain, treading through an unique territory of opposites — from rapid progression to outright hypnosis, from weightless yearning all the way to euphoric catharsis.