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Artist
I. A. Bericochea
12+ albums
minimaltechnominusminimal technoorchestral
about
Ignacio Aguilera Bericochea (I.A.Bericochea) is a producer who, in the spirit of Persona Records, comes not from the DJ scene but from an eclectic background. In Bericochea's case, lots of bands and the study of physics. A bass player and electronic music producer who is inspired by the concrete world of materials, his haunting music explores the way sounds are transformed from substance to wave and back again, mutating the noises of wood, metal and everyday detrius into otherworldy atmospheres. Beat driven, dusky and textured, Bericochea’s tracks haunt dark rooms and twilit spaces with their shadows, but the unfurling melodies are nontheless playful. Bericochea debuted on Hawtin’s M_nus in 2003 with the EP ‘A’, and released his debut full length, ‘Rojo’, the same year. Here’s what xlr8r said about Rojo: “It's only coincidence that Ignacio Aguilera Bericochea's name is so reminiscent of the cochlea, that bony, shell-shaped part of the inner ear that's the heart of our hearing, but how fitting it is. I.A. Bericochea's music, a profoundly thinned-out minimal techno that's more absent than present, offers the profoundest kind of intense listening, grounded with bass that reverberates deep in the body and graced with white noise that seems to graze the very surface of the ear drum, like summer grasses brushing against weathered cement. "Rojo-like red eye," which reflects blood vessels in the eye of a photographed subject-is a journey into the pulsing heart of sound." And The
