Octex

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Octex

http://www.octex.si/

octex@soundoflj.com

Phone386 (1) 430 0237

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 issued with the edition of Wire magazine. Octex's track was then already noticed and played by the legendary John Peel on BBC Radio 1.

In 2002 he released his début album Idei Lahesna on Tehnika label, 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 for their track Smrt za smrt was released by Mute Records) etc. He appeared on numerous Slovene (worth mentioning 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 Študent as one of the five best albums of the year. Using field recordings and his newly acquired modular synth collection, the album is avant-grade electronics with more than a hint of his club milieu.

[Tehnika] Octex - Emergon by 2030brother on YouTube

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

Performances and projects

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), etc. Octex also performs regularly at Chilli Space events, Dub Lab evenings and at Klub K4 in Ljubljana. Beside doing live sets he also plays dj sets of various genres, presenting music that ranges from old school Berlin techno to contemporary dub.

He is interested in improvised 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 Philippines) in 2009 and in the same year 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 compilation, released by rx-tx.

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

See also

• Rx-tx
• Projekt Atol Institute
• Ago Tela

External links

• Octex website
• Octex on Myspace
• Octec on Soundloud (featuring his latest album)
• Octex on Facebook (includes links to some of his other work)
• Octex music on Last.fm
• Octex discography on Discogs
• Octex mix for FILTER27 Podcast