In a Hungarian village where the silence is as stifling as it is meditative, a single voice is starting to be heard, one that hums, glitches, and vibrates with an eerie beauty. That voice is Aken, a new experimental electronic producer whose debut track, “All That Rises,” welcomes you into an emotional, dark world forged from isolation and an unbridled creative spirit.
“All That Rises” feels like an intimate jotting in a diary. It starts with atmospheric swells that make you feel like an ever-deepening fog is descending on forgotten streets, before fractured beats start shuffling through the landscape. Aken draws on a rich spectrum of influences, UK garage, future garage, glitch, ambient, and even a glimmer or two of brostep energy, but how he synthesizes them feels undeniably his own. This is a track for headphones, late-night walks, or just reflecting on your own thoughts.
The textures are carefully considered, static flickers, shattered percussive patterns, and eerie low-end pulses lend the piece an air of disquiet and momentum. It’s meditative yet restless, not unlike the environment Aken creates. He’s the only one making music in his village, and he turns that isolation into something solid, the layers feel lived-in, the edges crackle with tension and feeling.
What’s most remarkable is the level of emotion Aken can convey without ever using the human voice. There’s a dark, mournful undercurrent here, a sound of quiet struggle and release. Fans of Burial, Lorn, or Arca will recognize elements, but “All That Rises” doesn’t read as derivative. It does so in its own language of deformation and reticence. It is an audacious, textured debut that promises great things. Aken might still be nascent, but he’s already cutting through the mist in his own, startling way. “All That Rises” is the sound of an artist wringing light out of multiple layers of dark.
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