Absence Seizure marks its tenth release this September, a split package comprising one original from co-founder Abe Duque and two from label-founder Matuss.
Since its launch back in 2015 the New York City based Absence Seizure imprint, launched by Abe Duque and Matuss has been a platform for the latter’s original material and across the past nine releases and picked up support from the likes of Young Male, Sage Caswell, Dorian Paic and Eduardo De La Calle amongst others. Here though we see co-founder Abe Duque join the part to mark the labels tenth vinyl release alongside label regular Julia Matuss.
Matuss steps up with ‘Crashing Hard’ a murky, stripped-back number fuelled by choppy bass stabs, minimal percussive bleeps and airy atmospherics . Next on the package is Abe Duque’s ’11-27-2016’, a typically raw affair from the New York Techno veteran fuelled by squelching 303 lines, robust analogue drums and dreamy arpeggios.
The B side features Matuss’ ‘Sisabuc Fresh’ closes out the package, stripping things back even further to minute, shuffled percussion, stuttering ethereal chords and permeating sub hits which all flow in unison across its ten minute duration.

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Matuss continue to deliver deep and soulful techno via her vinyl only imprint Absence Seizure, which she helms alongside Abe Duque.
Opening with ‘Whistler’, Matuss delivers heavyweight bass tones, dubbed out drums and obscure synthesiser transitions before ‘Zoya The Destroyer’ provides eerie atmospheres, crisp percussion and subtle mid-range motifs which sit on top of a melodic low-end.
On the flip side we have ‘Stranger things’, which sets an ominous tone with murky ambiences and ethereal pads underpinned by a powerful kick, rumbling sub-bass and percolating rhythms to close the release.


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Julia Matuss, better known as simply Matuss has been steadily carving out a name for herself over the past decade, initially finding her feet as a prominent DJ in the Ukrainian scene she grew up in before a move to New York saw thing progress and the launch of her Absence Seizure imprint shortly followed. Now eight releases deep the imprint has piqued the interested of DJ’s such as D’Julz, DJ Deep, Derek Plaslaiko, TWR72 and Beaner. Taking the lead on the package is ‘Fairy Dust’ setting the scene via warbling Rhodes chords, raw dub sweeps and a pulsating low-end drive before a spaced out, sinuous resonant synth lead ebbs and flows throughout the focal point of the composition. ‘Baelfire’ follows and strips things back to raw percussive feel, employing thunderous claps, a weighty kicks and sweeping filtered sample as the foundation before the latter half of the record works in a frenzied acid-tinged hook. ‘Faramant’ then closes the package with an amalgamation of organic percussion, natural bass licks and glitchy percussive chimes which all subtly evolve and retract throughout.



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Matuss takes techno and turns it on its head. The cybernetic sound has been filled with human emotion, giving it a more organic feel than much of the music that would fall under the genre.


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Matuss returns to her Absence Seizure imprint February 2017 with ‘Seizure No.6’, comprising four original compositions from the New York based artist.



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Opening cut ‘Acido’ setting the tone perfectly via murky broken rhythms and glitched out bass hits before the latter stages introduce a squelching 303 lead which tails out the rest of the record. ‘What’ follows and takes a more robust approach rhythmically with a weighty kick drum, shuffling congas and choppy hats lying at the forefront while spiralling bass hits and vocal chops meander around them. Opening the flip is Nasty’(or Nylo if there is no way to fix name) which draws on an earth shattering sub bass lead, sparse percussive shots and a subtly bubbling synth stabs.Lastly the package is closed with ‘Nylo’(or Koi if there is no way to fix name), an intricately programmed energy fuelled workout featuring reversed bass swells, jazz tinged Rhodes melodies and crunchy distorted drums.

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Absence Seizure’s first release of 2016. Three dark, deep and powerfully emotive tracks. This record also includes remix from legendary Abe Duque. Don’t sleep on this one! Limited edition vinyl only.


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Absence Seizure Is a new Limited Edition vinyl NYC imprint. Brought to you by NYC's own Matuss and Abe Duque. This EP includes four beautiful late night tracks, deep and hypnotic, with a bit of dark funky spice. Musical art combined with one of a kind Rorschach artwork by Anastasia Podolskaya. Deep Techno, Soulful Minimal, Shallow House, Mesmerizing Music, Absence Seizure!

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Absence Seizure Is a new Limited Edition vinyl NYC imprint. Brought to you by NYC’s own Matuss and Abe Duque. Proper summer grooves on this one, funky and percussive. Musical art combined with one of a kind Rorschach artwork by Anastastia Podolskaya. Deep Techno, Soulful Minimal, Shallow House, Mesmerizing Music, Absence Seizure!


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