Zen '23, by 53X

Zen '23

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1.	Solitude 06:03	buy track
2.	Zen '23 06:42	buy track
3.	Crow Dub 05:23	buy track
4.	Eagle Flight 06:07	buy track

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After another acid-tinged EP to hit clubs from Akio Nagase, Especial travels back across the globe, unearthing and presenting Jonne Lydén aka 53X with bass heavy, widescreen, trance zeitgeist steppas for the future.

Born and raised in southern Finland, his musical journey started in his early teenage years as a singer in a hardcore punk band. An interest in making music independently flourished and he progressed to making his own tracks. After a mind expanding, exploratory visit to Berlin, Jonne got submerged in techno and started buying synths and drum machines. His first EP was released under the alias J. Lydén. Appearing on Marko Laine’s experimental label Mind Records and fellow Finnish label black. Records. Showcasing Detroit and industrial scale techno that were aimed squarely at main room Berghain.

Exhilarating, fully charged, his musical journey continued however, slowing the tempo but keeping the breadth, while exploring psychedelics, Lydén began to develop his interest in trance, evolving from hypnotic techno toward slower and trippier style.

Live jamming and sketching with hardware synths and drum machines play a major role. The analogue jack of Solitude opens with throbbing acid 303 over a heavy 4/4 kick, shouted invocations and psychedelic swirls, the relentless nature of the build rising to a new terrestrial reality. A template of cerebral originality.

Enlightened, Zen ’23 follows, slowing matter – acid, breakbeat, sirens calling, pull you in. The simplicity in the electronic message, looping, the universe pulling and expanding simultaneously in the mind.

Crow Dub keeps the tempo, an ominous 4/4 dub of synthetic modulations, atmospherics transport to some multi-dimensional Anjuna wormhole. Finally, Eagle Flight brings calmer sounds. The debut’s fruition – returning to the source – gliding beyond the Eye of Shiva, flute guides the way back to land.

53X’s genius can be heard in these collages of sound. Hypnotic landscapes of ecstatic rhythms, a “proto-Goa” fantasy of reincarnation and birth for 2023.

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released April 1, 2023

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