Octex
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SI Ljubljana – Dubtechno / Ambient / Experimental / Techno / Improvisation
Octex

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Octex - Mindrifft (album teaser)
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Polynya music
Ab67616d0000b273372e4cf4789677963e777130 Droppal Single 2022
Ab67616d0000b27310690ac994485570ff909940 Neeagon Single 2022
Ab67616d0000b273152ed3f743e5e227cc828aea Lusttrain Single 2022
Ab67616d0000b273ff2e89a700f179e1ab7df94c Drifftly Single 2021
Ab67616d0000b27357769c0bd5598d85c0d89228 Bubblin Single 2021
Ab67616d0000b2739ae3f79a1a1158d18a9089d6 Nevergget Single 2021
rxtx
Ab67616d0000b273f7df7741404051b338aab782 Every Soud Tells a Story Album 2009
Ab67616d0000b27354e1d6a7dcb173fec7eb22fb Variations Album 2006
Entropy Records
Ab67616d0000b273dc8b16068baa38de7ef76f71 Dead Center of Nowhere Album 2012
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rx:tx
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Every Sound Tells a Story Album 2010
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Variations Album 2005
Nika
Ab67616d0000b2736b2124cea6a108fe1d216818 Idei Lahesna Album 2002
Tehnika
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Idei Lahesna Album 2002
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Jernej Marusic aka Octex is one of the most profiled and internationally established Slovenian electronic musicians, operating somewhere in between club and avant-garde, exploring the boundaries of rhythmical atmospheres drowned in dub aesthetics and sub-bass frequencies.

Already, after the first release, on compilation Elektrotehnika Slavenika (NSK/Wire, 2000), his music got noticed by the late, great John Peel. His debut album Idei Lahesna (Tehnka, 2002) is regarded by many as one of the best dub-techno albums, for which he received Slovenian Bumerang award for up comer of 2003, and two years in a row placed amongst 10 finalists of Radio France International Electronic Music Award. Video for the track Emergon got airplay on MTV, VIVA, Onyx TV… With the release of his second album Variations (rx-tx, 2005), he showed his desire to get away from established musical trends and push the sound further, deeper and more experimental. He continues in that direction on Every Sound Tells a Story (rx-tx, 2009). In 2012 french label Entropy Records released Dead Centre of Nowhere, an ambient sequel to Idei Lahesna, recorded some 10 years ago, but till then never released.
Besides that, he has released music on numerous labels (Mute, EFA, STHLM, Public Records…) and remixed artists such as Laibach, Marko Furstenberg, Gabriel Le Mar, Ultra Red…
In 2015 he released debut Streeteepy of his side-project Pavemental, which focuses on his unique take on urban hip hop beats.

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) ...

In last years he also became interested in improvised music, doing solo improv sessions centered around modular synthesizer, or performing with other musicians ...