Huoratron aka Finnish producer Aku Raski will release his sophomore album, ‘XXVI Crimes of Love,’ this summer via Last Gang Records. The album is the follow up to his 2012 debut ‘Cryptocracy’.
To coincide with the album announcement, Huoratron has shared an early taste of the album, the track Mortality Salience, an acid-laced techno cut that pummels forward with unforgiving determination. Describing the track, Raski says “it showcases my current interests in dance music of late, dirty, rough and not watered down with intellect. Void of neon edam and happy places. More simply put, he calls it a theme to forget your looming demise to.”
Take a listen to Mortality Salience via YouTube below.
This Spring and Summer will see Huoratron play a number of shows throughout Finland. Click here to see full run of dates.
More about Huoratron? The music of Huroatron so driven, anyone can embrace it.
This is something to remind you of musics ability to shake you up, get you off your ass, and… well, frankly, to punish. And yet, while youre taking Huoratrons beat-battering, you find yourself smiling. Its a cathartic musical assault. Therell be blood, sweat and tears, but at the end of it all youll feel like a better person.
Finally, someone who doesnt think his vision needs to be watered down for people to get it. People do get it. But how does Huoratron get both hardcore punks and hipsters to line up for hugs after soul purging gigs? Sure, theyre won over by his zero tolerance to compromise, but theres more. The man behind the moniker, Aku Raski, has a multitude of forces working within him. On one hand he is an intuitive artist and composer, an alchemist of the esoteric art of sound. On the other hand he is a scientist, who crafts sounds and beats with the care of a 17th century violin maker. And he is also a performer a bearded showman who moshes his way into the hearts of his audiences.
Huoratron was formed as a dogmatic underground art concept: he took limited technology Nintendo Gameboys and forced the gadgets to spit out a distorted wall of sound like no one had done before. The equipment has evolved in a logical progression with the music ever since, and helped lead to Huoratrons debut album, Cryptocracy and his forthcoming album XXVI Crimes of Love. It serves up refined dynamics of aggression, its nuances adding to the impact. And, like its been from the beginning, the music is defined by a fearless attitude, a disrespect of the rules and a dedication to the cause.
With Huoratron you get the whole package. One man executing one vision with total control of his medium. And the secret ingredient? It has to come from the disarming charm and presence of the man behind it all. He makes it all human.
