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 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.
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A song from Octex's 2002 album Idei Lahesna. He also produced the video.
Omeni rš, 5, 2010
GANGAN ENSEMBLE LJUBLJANA 2009
pavemental
založbe
chilli space . ker založba
omnwni k4
dublab evening
kje je vse rolu v zadnje,m
video scena
sempler
mixi
smrt za smrt on mute
Since that time he has become one of the most active Slovene live acts, performing at such prominent festivals as Club Transmediale, FutureSonic, ISEA, La Batie, Nuit Blanche and Exit, either as a solo artist or as part of the multimedia project Signal-Sever. Octex also plays regularly at Chilli Space events and at Klub K4 in Ljubljana.
In the meantime he is busy performing his audio/visual live set at festivals and clubs all around Europe, such as ARS Electronica (Linz), Club Transmediale (Berlin), ISEA (Helsinki), Dis-patch (Belgrade) Exit (Novi Sad) White Night (Riga), Flussi (Avellino)...
Lately he also became interested in improvised music, either doing his solo improv sessions, or as part of a trio Ago Tela, which he formed in 2009 with like minded musicians Marjan Crnkovic (Dojaja) and Mario Marolt (Electrosaurus), and has been focusing on it a lot lately
Selected discography of Octex
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See also
External links
Octex discography on Discogs
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