Calatea EP, by Tomás Urquieta

Calatea EP

by Tomás Urquieta

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Markus (Hårek) Stripped down, violent and hard hitting techno sustained by raw texture, bleeps and concussion inducing kicks. Favorite track: Taro.

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Tracklist:
A1/ Calatea
A2/ Taro
B1/ Sotto Voce
B2/ Vitra

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1.	Calatea 05:06	buy track
2.	Taro 05:47	buy track
3.	Sotto Voce 06:53	buy track
4.	Vitra 04:59	buy track

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Hospital rooms and bustling dancefloors. It’s hard to think of two spaces that are more different, but when Tomás Urquieta’s father was hospitalized for several weeks with a serious illness last year, the NYC-based Chilean producer found himself in a particularly reflective mood—and an urgent need to make music. Armed with only his laptop and iPhone, he started making tracks at his father’s bedside, filtering his feelings—along with samples he’d collected of medical equipment in the room— through his production software.

Those tracks now form the bulk of the Calatea EP, Urquieta’s potent Seilscheibenpfeiler debut. Named after one of his favorite plants, the record is also a nod to his mother, who filled his childhood home with greenery, but its contents are ultimately closer to an untamed jungle than a tranquil garden. Calatea may have been created in the sober confines of a hospital room, but even its most introspective offering (the EP’s title track, which also opens the record) is built atop feverishly percolating rhythms, their bassy swing pulling from Latin club sounds and the UK hardcore continuum alike.

“Taro” is a thundering, siren-filled assault, while “Sotto Voce” feels almost claustrophobic, its maelstrom of churning percussion, banshee-like basslines and blaring alarms grabbing hold of the dancefloor and refusing to let go. EP closer “Vitra” offers no respite, its marauding industrial stomp as likely to inspire a cardiac event as it is a raucous dance party. These are heavy, hard- charging club tunes, and though Urquieta’s father is thankfully all better now, the emotional turmoil caused by his hospital stay will forever be infused into the Calatea EP.

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released March 8, 2023

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jaspe

Feb 2024
vra

Jan 2024
Calatea EP

Mar 2023
32 Balas

Feb 2023
Naipan

Jul 2021
M.E.S.H. - Mimic (Tomás Urquieta Remix)

Apr 2018
The Keeper

Feb 2018
Hajime

Mar 2018
Cavalo

Nov 2019

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