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Octex - an acronym for Organic Crackle and Tone Experiments - aka Jernej Marušič, has been experimenting with music since the late 1990s. His first release appeared in 2000 on the compilation called Eletrotehnika Slavenika (later mutated into Tehnika 1 compilation, released by the short lived Tehnika label) which was then featured kot priloga in the Wire magazine. Octex's track was than alreadey noticed and played by the legendary John Peel on BBC Radio 1.

In 2002 he released his début album Idei Lahesna on Tehnika records, garnering high praise from both critics and public alike (some labeled it the "dub-techno album of the decade") and getting his self-made video for the track Emergon played on TV stations such as VIVA and Onyx TV. In 2003 he received a Boomerang Award for best newcomer of the year, and for the second year in a row was selected as one of the 10 finalists for the Radio France International Electronic Music Award. With his album Variations, released on Rx-tx in 2005, his music was getting more experimental and abstract. It was also getting him an evolving international recognition, a solid fanbase and a number of gigs around Europe.

In the following years he made a number of remixes for artists such as Marko Furstenberg, Gabriel Le Mar, Ultra-Red, Laibach (his remix fot theit track Smrt za smrt was released by the Mute label) etc. He appeared on numerous Slovene (worth mentionig is the Chilli space series) as well as foreign compilations. In December 2009 his latest album Every sound tells a story came out. It again was getting enthusiastic feedback and was selected by Radio Student as one of the five best albums of the year. Using field recordings and his newly nekaj modular synth collection, the album still hovers around the avant-grade with more than a hint of his club milje.

[Tehnika] Octex - Emergon by 2030brother on YouTube

A song from Octex's 2002 album Idei Lahesna. He also produced the video.

Being one of the most active Slovene live acts, he performed with his his audio/visual live set at such prominent festivals as ARS Electronica (Linz), Club Transmediale (Berlin), ISEA (Helsinki), Dis-patch (Belgrade) Exit (Novi Sad) White Night (Riga), Flussi (Avellino)... Octex also plays regularly at Chilli Space events and at Klub K4 in Ljubljana. Beside doing live sets he also regularly plays dj sets of various genres, presenting music that ranges from old school berlin techno to contemporary dub.

He is interested in inmprovised music for some time, and besides doing his solo improv sessions he was also a part of Gangan ensemble Ljubljana (led by the artist Tengal from the Phillipines) and has in 2009 formed a trio Ago Tela.

His latest musical interest can be traced to the pseudonym Pavemental, under which his song was featured on the Sampler 2011 compillation, released by rx-tx.

{{#oembed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKm-V1nF9M%7C576}} A track released under the alias Pavemental in 2011.

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 *[http://www.myspace.com/octex Octex on myspace]
 *[http://soundcloud.com/octex Octec on soundloud (featuring his latest album)]
-*[http://www.facebook.com/octexmusic?sk=wall Octex on Facebook (includes links to some of his other work]
+*[http://www.facebook.com/octexmusic?sk=wall Octex on Facebook (includes links to some of his other work)]
 *[http://www.last.fm/music/Octex/+tracks Octex music on Last.fm]
 *[http://www.discogs.com/artist/octex Octex discography on Discogs]

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